Women commandos, trigger-ready to combat terror

Published February 11, 2015
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015.  - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015. - AFP
A Pakistani policewoman fires a heavy machine gun during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa  on February 11, 2015. - AFP
A Pakistani policewoman fires a heavy machine gun during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015. - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015.  - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015. - AFP
Pakistani policemen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015.  - AFP
Pakistani policemen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015. - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015.  - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015. - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015.  - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015. - AFP
Pakistani policemen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015.  - AFP
Pakistani policemen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015. - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015.  - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015. - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015.  - AFP
Pakistani policewomen demonstrate their skills during a special elite police training course at a police training centre in Nowshera, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa on February 11, 2015. - AFP

Dozens of male and female police took part in a commando training course in Nowshera, introduced by the local police as an additional skill for the police to be deployed to confront terrorism and extremism which is routinely on the rise in this South Asian nuclear-armed country.

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