Lahore, Sept 25: In a chilling case that has shaken Pakistan, a local court has sentenced 17-year-old Zain Ali to 100 years in prison for murdering his mother, brother, and two sisters in what authorities described as a violent outburst driven by his obsession with the online battle game PUBG.

The judgment, delivered by Additional Sessions Judge Riaz Ahmed on Wednesday, concluded one of Lahore’s most disturbing family murder cases. “The convict brutally killed his entire family under the influence of an online game,” the judge said. Because Ali was only 14 at the time of the killings, he escaped the death penalty and was instead handed four life terms—25 years for each of the murders.

A Crime That Shattered a Family

Ali lived with his family in Lahore’s crowded Kahna neighborhood. Accor

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