Death threats force first female Afghan air force pilot to reconsider career decision

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Death threats force first female Afghan airforce pilot to reconsider cateer decision

KABUL: Niloofar Rahmnai, the first female pilot in Afghanistan’s history and air forces is facing death threats from the Taliban and extended family.
The winner of the International Women of Courage award, 2nd lieutenant Nilofar Rahmani says that she wants to continue to be the military but cannot continue due to the threats. “I really wanted to be in the military. I really wanted to be in the Air Force … But I can’t continue like this.”
She says that a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat, has threatened her claiming that she is working against the principles of Islam. “Islam has instructed women not to work with the Americans or British,” one of the Taliban letters has informed her.
Niloofar Rahmani further says that her relatives have also turned against her saying that this is a shame for them. Niloofar Rahmani, 23, joined the Afghan air force two years before. She graduated from Shindand airbase of Herat province in the year 2013. Rahmani won the International Women of Courage award in Washington DC in March 2015.

 

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Mullahsaurus strikes again

 

[jamahir]

Mullahsaurus strikes again

yeah, courtesy the usual post-regime-change chaos by white house.

“Islam has instructed women not to work with the Americans or British,” one of the Taliban letters has informed her.

what??

1. so usa and britain were politically existent when islam came about??

2. so males ( including taliban ) can work with the americans or british but ladies can't??

3. i don't think ms. niloofar wants to particularly work with the americans or british.

4. the young generation of afghanistan will now consider the thought ( or fantasy ) of bringing back the days of socialism in afghanistan.

niloofar now has a good choice and opportunity... she can go join the syrian armed forces and fight against the nato-created criminals invading syria.

 

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niloofar now has a good choice and opportunity... she can go join the syrian armed forces and fight against the nato-created criminals invading syria.

Lets not drag Syria here buddy Asad too has his hands dirty but now its daesh vs Asad so we just have to support Cluster bomb Assad over genocidal mullahsauruses

2. so males ( including taliban ) can work with the americans or british but ladies can't??

They can interact with western women too its totally halal in their books

3. i don't think ms. niloofar wants to particularly work with the americans or british.

She had a dream of a better Afghanistan for women.These mullahs are not scared of bombs but people like Nilofar because they encourage people to dream big and challenge norms

 

[jamahir]

Lets not drag Syria here buddy Asad too has his hands dirty but now its daesh vs Asad so we just have to support Cluster bomb Assad over genocidal mullahsauruses

you must find out for yourself the real reality of syria... remember the lizzie phelan interview i had posted three days ago??

They can interact with western women too its totally halal in their books

very halal.

She had a dream of a better Afghanistan for women.These mullahs are not scared of bombs but people like Nilofar because they encourage people to dream big and challenge norms

it all seems to be going downhill there... first was the farkhunda lynching thing and now this.

 

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it all seems to be going downhill there... first was the farkhunda lynching thing and now this.

Call me an optimist but with more women getting education and joining the work force in Afghanistan i think that things can improve but women who get way too visible like Nilofar will get the axe

 

[Spring Onion]

KABUL: Niloofar Rahmnai, the first female pilot in Afghanistan’s history and air forces is facing death threats from the Taliban and extended family.
The winner of the International Women of Courage award, 2nd lieutenant Nilofar Rahmani says that she wants to continue to be the military but cannot continue due to the threats. “I really wanted to be in the military. I really wanted to be in the Air Force … But I can’t continue like this.”
She says that a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat, has threatened her claiming that she is working against the principles of Islam. “Islam has instructed women not to work with the Americans or British,” one of the Taliban letters has informed her.
Niloofar Rahmani further says that her relatives have also turned against her saying that this is a shame for them. Niloofar Rahmani, 23, joined the Afghan air force two years before. She graduated from Shindand airbase of Herat province in the year 2013. Rahmani won the International Women of Courage award in Washington DC in March 2015.

cock and bull story.

NVM UK/US should grant her citizenship

 

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There was a time when this happened in Pakistan
Mullahs target women runners | World news | The Guardian

and this

1990s[edit]
The concept of Women's cricket was first introduced in Pakistan by sisters Shaiza and Sharmeen Khan in 1996. They were subsequently met with court cases and even death threats. The government refused them permission to play India in 1997 and ruled that women were forbidden from playing sports in public due to the religious issues.[4][5]

guess what they did

Pakistani women defy threats, run mixed marathon - CSMonitor.com

Bowlers fire Pakistan Women to series win | Cricket | ESPN Cricinfo


i see things improving at a slow pace in Afghanistan remember forests need decades to regrow

 

[jamahir]

Call me an optimist but with more women getting education and joining the work force in Afghanistan i think that things can improve but women who get way too visible like Nilofar will get the axe

yes, seems to be so... though one thing is that between their house and their work-place is a difficult social situation, so unless the political system is changed...

cock and bull story.

NVM UK/US should grant her citizenship

you doubt her story?? surely, she didn't resign for fun.

 

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cock and bull story.

NVM UK/US should grant her citizenship

Talabunnies want women enslaved in burqas and you are laughing

 

[jamahir]

guess what they did

Pakistani women defy threats, run mixed marathon - CSMonitor.com

Progressive elements argue that races like this, by granting women greater freedom in public, advance Pakistan's commitment to "enlightened moderation," the program of social reform touted by President Pervez Musharraf.

a capable leader is missing in afghanistan.

 

[Spring Onion]

Talabunnies want women enslaved in burqas and you are laughing

there is no different opinion bout the Taliban. I am laughing at this story which sounds immature and fake.

read carefully and you will understand

 

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there is no different opinion bout the Taliban. I am laughing at this story which sounds immature and fake.

read carefully and you will understand

Um a female police officer was killed in Afghanistan in 2010 so she cant risk it

 

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you doubt her story?? surely, she didn't resign for fun.

1. She is an Afghan air force pilot and nothing to do with Pakistan so why would Swat Taliban threaten her instead of Pakistani female pilots?

2. Again why would a small Pakistani Taliban group from Swat would be concerned about what a woman in Afghanistan doing when our own country Pakistan has more female pilots as well as we have first women jirga/jirgas regularly taking place.

3. cultural activities/sports events are taking place in Swat.

4. if she had resigned then she must be facing opposition from her own countrymen and family . may be she is afraid to attribute this story to Afghan Taliban hence she is trying to cash name of Swat Taliban

 

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First Afghan female pilot facing death threats

WITW STAFF
08.05.15

SHAH MARAI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES
Niloofar Rahmani became the first female fixed-wing military pilot in Afghanistan when she was 21 years old, but now at age 23 she faces death threats from the Taliban and even her extended family. After the end of the Taliban’s rule, the country aimed to increase the number of roles for women outside the home and Rahmani was a symbol of that effort. Now, two years later, she’s been threatened by a faction of the Pakistani Taliban, the Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat, and relatives are claiming that she has brought shame on the family. Despite investment by the U.S. to promote gender equality, there are still severe restrictions of women’s rights as the attempts to advance women’s rights have clashed with traditional Afghan culture. Not only do Taliban leaders not agree with Rahmani being a woman working outside the home, they also target her because she has specifically chosen to be in the military and “Islam has instructed women not to work with the Americans or British,” as one of the letters from the Taliban informed her. Rahmani has been asked to quit by the Afghan Air Force, but pressure from the U.S.-led coalition helped her kept the job. Her family has been threatened and even attacked and they are effectively living in hiding, moving every few months. Rahmani said, “I really wanted to be in the military. I really wanted to be in the Air Force … But I can’t continue like this.”

3. cultural activities/sports events are taking place in Swat.

we are not talking about swat