Gamers compete in "Tekken" at the Maniax arcade in Lahore, Pakistan. - Javed Iqbal/CNN On a wet monsoon evening in Pakistan’s bustling city of Lahore, the generators sputter and the lights flicker in ...

Lahore, Pakistan (CNN) — On a wet monsoon evening in Pakistan’s bustling city of Lahore, the generators sputter and the lights flicker in Maniax, a grimy but legendary gaming arcade powering the ...

Haider believes Pakistan’s hardscrabble environment has created a “ruthlessness” among its young gamers. Most of the country’s under-30 demographic – some 170 million people – have grown up in the ...