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The Pakistan government has tried hard to leverage the memory of the brutal Peshawar massacre in 2014, when Taliban terrorists killed 130 children in the city's Army Public School. Authorities have attempted to claim that the moment was a watershed, which helped turned the tide of public opinion against the spread of terror in the country.

In December last year, the Army's public relations department put out a beautiful song insisting that the real retribution for the attack would be to provide education to the children of the terrorists. The Punjab IT Board, a government body of Pakistan's Punjab state, however, did not get this memo.

The board commissioned an independent company to put together a video game allowing people to relive the events of that day. The game, called Pakistan Army Retribution, was released by the Punjab IT board on Google Play a couple of weeks ago.

The first-person shooter gives players the chance to lead soldiers into the main building of the school and kill armed terrorists placed around the premises. A piece on Pakistani newspaper Dawn, which drew attention to the video game and ended up causing outrage on social media, not only questioned the need to make such a video-game but also said that as a game it "falls flat."

The game has now been taken down, with the Punjab IT board admitting it was in poor taste. It no longer shows up on the Google Play store.