Summary The students were provided basic information on latest weapons.
KARACHI (Web Desk / Reuters) – A special anti-terrorism training was given to university students by Pak Army personnel in Malir Cannt area of Karachi today (Tuesday), Dunya News reported.
Pak Army jawans displayed their skills to the students of Institute of Business Administration (IBA) and later began training boys and girls how to use guns. The students were provided basic information on latest weapons.
On the other hand, training was also given to Hamdard University students by SSU.
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Authorities have already strengthened security for educational institutes across the country by building elevated boundary walls with steel wire fencing and increasing the number of police. Private schools have been ordered to deploy extra security guards after January 20 attack on Bacha Khan University in Charsadda town of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
The government and military promised a tough response to the massacre, in which heavily armed militants scaled the university walls before targeting helpless students and staff, killing around 21 persons.
The attack reminded the nation of the horrors that took place a little over a year earlier, when militants massacred 134 pupils at an army school just 19 miles (31 km) away, in Peshawar, the main city in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province.
Pak army spokesperson said the attack on the university was masterminded by Umar Mansoor, a Tehreek-e-Taliban militant based in Afghanistan, who was also blamed for the Peshawar school massacre.
Later, Bacha Khan University (BKU) reopened on February 15 amid security.
Before reopening, the university took extra security measures, installing new CCTV cameras, hiring more armed guards, and raising the height of boundary walls.
The university also decided that teachers could continue to carry their own licensed weapons as long as they do not display them in classrooms but students who owned weapons had to submit them at the entrance of the campus.
