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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'

Photo Mohammad Azeem/raheel Salman February 19, 2015

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 20^th, 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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Phiroze B. Javeri | 9 years ago | Reply Keeping vulnerable citizens unprotected and impotent against the depredations of criminals and terrorists is a crime. Misuse of weapons in the hands of responsible citizens would be rarer and far less destructive than their dastardly use by the outlaws. Take the example of Switzerland, where every citizen has a firearm. How many instances of misuse do we see? Weapons are like alcohol: a culture that permits sensible, social drinking has fewer drunkards than a puritanical society that prohibits it as evil, and thereby attracts abuse.

Fahad Zafar Sobani | 9 years ago | Reply I fear that giving training of weapons to students and teachers may result in a similar school shooting incident which have been happening in United States. Care must be taken when it comes to access to weapons and right to use. It could also be an accident where an innocent effort to protect may result in harming one of your own.

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