Pakistani Teachers Get Firearms, Self-Defense Training to Defend Against Taliban

By Johannes Paulsen

The New York Times reports that police in northwestern Pakistan are “offering firearms instruction to schoolteachers and university lecturers” in response to the Taliban’s massacre of nearly 150 people at a Peshawar school in December. Reporter Ismail Khan writes, “Gunfire rang out as Fatima Bibi squeezed off three shots, hitting her target every time. Then she lowered her Glock pistol, turned to her fellow academics and smiled. Her instructor was smiling, too.” . . .

“These ladies are better shots than some of our men,” said Abdul Latif, a police firearms instructor. “They learned to …read more

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