People in Kashmir will soon be able to experience a new adventure in the form of popular outdoor game Paintball.
Wildbeest Hub Private Limited is bringing this action-packed game at Doodpathri on August 29, 2021, to give the Kashmiri youth an escape from online gaming and offer them a real-life fun experience.
Paintball is similar to any other sport where teams are divided in two and the goal is to eliminate the opponents with a paintball gun which consists of spherical dye-filled gelatin capsules shot using low-energy air weapons.
Wildbeest Hub, a company founded by a young entrepreneur from Pampore, Tajamul Rashid who has studied MBA and is experienced in sales and marketing said that they are trying their best to give the youth of Kashmir the experience of a lifetime and with this step, the people have given a lot of appreciation and love to introduce a sport which was mostly unheard of in the valley.
“I was working outside of India and like every Kashmiri parent, my parents called me back here and I had some ideas that I never really wanted to pursue, such as dairy farming, RND and such,” Rashid said. “But my main aim was to entertain the people.”
“As PUBG was on the rise since the last four to five years, I had this epiphany that maybe the youth would be more interested in a real life experience of the game in a safe manner so in 2017-2018, I came up with this idea of bringing paintball in the valley,” he said.
Yet the idea came to fruition after a lot of hardships faced by the Wildebeest Hub as they, “had to make the authorities aware of the sport as they were not aware that this activity does not require arms or ammunitions but is played merely by a toy gun and while it was highly taking place in other parts of the country as well as the world, most people of Kashmir are alien about the sport.”