Pakistani teachers handle firearms during a weapons training

Pakistani teachers handle various firearms during a weapons training session for school, college and university teachers at a police training centre in Peshawar. Authorities in northwest Pakistan have allowed 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 countrys northwest.