It was in his fourth year of medical school that Razzak discovered his true calling: emergency medicine. Not one to be held back, the hard-working student subsequently attended Adamjee Science College where his impressive grades and unbounded enthusiasm won him a scholarship at the prestigious Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH), the top private medical institution in the country. He started his schooling at a humble primary school in Lyari, completing his secondary education from Nasira School in Depot Lines.
Today, Razzak is a renowned emergency medicine expert and the executive director of the Aman Foundation. How this network of ambulances was established is an inspiring story which starts with an ambitious boy, Junaid Razzak, who rose from humble origins. In a city rife with medical emergencies, where target killings, bomb blasts and road accidents are a daily occurrence, these vehicles save many precious lives.
You must often have spotted one tearing through unrelenting traffic, rushing the sick and injured to a hospital. No wonder then that the Aman Foundation’s sleek, bright yellow ambulances stand out among the fume-spewing buses, noisy rickshaws, and death-defying motorcyclists on Karachi’s chaotic roads. Sledgehammer co-founder Michael Condrey said about the Swastikas later removal, "Including Nazi symbols wouldn't bring honor, nor be appropriate, without the rich history of a WWII story to ground their context in Multiplayer.Think of an ambulance and the first image that comes to mind is a white Suzuki Bolan painted with a red cross. Lest we not forget Call of Duty: WWII, which included gratuitous Swastikas in multiplayer. It's a tough call, but at least this franchise has benefited from the experience in making this call before. Either claim your game is some type of lofty, artistic title, using historical realism as a backdrop to make a political statement and engage the user on a deeper level, or admit that your RPG-shooter about the Cold War is just trying to exploit our current moment. So again, we're back to Activision's bind. He rationalizes that his experience growing up there will give him an advantage in the game, but the obvious subtext is how messed up he feels it is that this American company trivialized the atrocities of his childhood by turning it into a playground. Kumail jokes about playing a Call of Duty multiplayer map called Karachi, which is named and modeled after the war-torn city that he grew up in. If this is just meant to be mindless, meaningless fun, why are you centering that game around real-world atrocities that carry modern-day political relevance? It reminds of that Kumail Nanjiani bit, which, hey, was about Call of Duty! But that brings us to the other side of the bind that Activision has placed themselves in.
#CALL OF DUTY KARACHI MOVIE#
It's not a movie or a book that's supposed to have a message or provoke thought. I know people are talking about video games like they're legit art now, but it's just a game. See, Activision made the tagline of their game "Know your history." Hmmm, it's kind of hard to know your history when you're in the process of censoring it.Īctivision could always hide their shame by falling back on the old tried-and-true argument of, "Hey, bros! Woogity, woogity, woogity. But whatever their reasons to pull the footage, they come out looking like hypocrites.
Our President was the dude from The Apprentice, so anything is possible. Was this Activision panicking over the prospect of inciting an international incident with China? I don't know.