Pakistani teachers determined to arm selves after school massacre

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Government authorities in Pakistan’s northwest frontier have given consent for teachers to carry a concealed weapon in response to the December 16 Peshawar school massacre. The incident became one of the deadliest terrorist strikes in Pakistani history. Pakistani Taliban militants stormed a Peshawar school, and brutally murdered 150 children and teachers. Shabnam Tabinda and 10 other female teachers at the Frontier College for Women are learning how to use handguns, and plan to carry them to help protect their students. Muzammal Khan, provincial president of the All Teachers Association in Peshawar, stated that students were already scared enough as it was, and seeing the teachers armed would increase tension and anxiety unnecessarily. He also said that government authorities should be the ones defending schools from terrorism, not the instructors. Malik Khalid, president of the association for primary schools, commented that its members have voted against permitting their schools’ teachers to carry guns. The provincial government is pressing ahead anyway with firearms training workshops for teachers.

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