Pakistani teachers allowed to carry guns

Authorities in northwest Pakistan allow teachers to carry firearms to schools and have begun weapons training for them, officials said. The decision was taken in the wake of a December 16, 2014, attack on an army-run school that killed 150 people, 134 of them children, in Peshawar, the main town in the country’s northwest.

— AFP

A Pakistani teacher loads a magazine into a pistol during a weapons training session for school, college and university teachers at a police training center in Peshawar on January 27, 2015. (photo credit: A Majeed/AFP)
A Pakistani teacher loads a magazine into a pistol during a weapons training session for school, college and university teachers at a police training center in Peshawar on January 27, 2015. (photo credit: A Majeed/AFP)

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