Preface -- My father -- The Soviets -- Courtship -- Civil war -- Escape -- The refugee camp -- Karachi -- Our return -- Life under the Taliban -- September 11, 2001 ...
The once-unimaginable feat last year won her the US State Department's "Women of Courage Award". Niloofar Rahmani, a 25-year-old pilot lionised widely as the "Afghan Top Gun" after the 1986 Tom Cruise ...
Ask Niloofar Rahmani when she knew she wanted to become a pilot, and she can recall the months that changed everything. "I would see the airplanes, the fighter jets," Rahmani recalled. "They were ...