Self-defence training: Mama Parsi students learn how to use guns

A total 42 teachers and 18 students were given the ‘Hostile Environment Awareness Training'


Forty-two teachers and 18 students of the Mama Parsi school were given self-defence training by the police on Wednesday. PHOTO: MOHAMMAD AZEEM/EXPRESS

KARACHI:


The students and teachers of Mama Parsi school know how to react in case of a terrorist attack as they have learned how to use a gun and been trained on basic self-defence.


Following the tragic attack on Army Public School in Peshawar, the Mama Parsi administration teamed with the police’s Special Security Unit and organised a training programme at the Shaheed Benazir Elite Police Training Centre, Razzakabad, on Wednesday.

A total 42 teachers and 18 students were given the ‘Hostile Environment Awareness Training’, which taught them how to open fire and how to locate to a safer place in case of any terrorist attack, bomb blast or a firing incident. They were also taught how to free themselves when their hands and feet were tied in case of kidnapping, jumping from a moving car and providing first aid to injured people. The students also received training certificates.

Published in The Express Tribune, February 20th, 2015.

COMMENTS (4)

Iftikhar Shah Gilani | 9 years ago | Reply Besides learning how to use guns! what about the guns? God for bid in an emergency from where the teachers and students will get ammunition? Police and Low & Order enforcement agencies should alert and prepare themselves to cater these emergency in efficient manners to help the citizens instead of shifting their responsibilities on the shoulders of school management.
Observer | 9 years ago | Reply Cute girl handling a dangerous weapon. Around the world , you have unarmed self defence classes for women and girls , but only in pakistan can you see something like this. This just shows the nervous state of the pak establishment and inability to contain the pandora's box it opened long back.
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