Pakistan: a holy place for gamers

I found an interesting article about Pakistani video game players written by Masatomo Norikyo, the chief of the Asahi Shimbun Islamabad bureau.

「格ゲー業界騒然！パキスタン人が異様に強い理由、現地で確かめてみた」
  乗京 真知（朝日新聞イスラマバード支局長）

Internet play is convenient, but it doesn't reproduce the atmosphere of face-to-face play. When I was in junior high and high school, I used to play fighting games at amusement arcades. Reading this article made me want to go to Pakistan to play a fighting game!

Pakistan's population is 207.77 million, the 6th largest in the world. Young people aged 25 or younger account for about 60% of the total. The overwhelming gaming population and the thickness of the layers. The national championships, which are attended by nearly 100 famous athletes from various regions, are held nearly 10 times a year. ... Power plants have been built thanks to China's investment in infrastructure, and power outages have decreased in recent years. Electricity, which was scarce in the middle class, is becoming commonplace, and the environment for playing games has permeated the home.
(This is a translation of part of the article by Mirai Translator.)