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

[Spring Onion]

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

She has all the rights to be safe.

 

[Spring Onion]

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.”


we are not talking about swat

YES we are YES She is Talking about Swat when she came up with this made up story that Pakistani Taliban threatened her.

Why would Swat Taliban threaten an Afghan female pilot?? it seems she wants asylum abroad.

 

[Zibago]

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

Yes i too think she was threatened by some other faction of taliban cashing in on ttp,s name but women like her have been targeted in Afghanistan

 

[I.R.A]

@fakhre mirpur

Only five tags get tag notification, over and above this number is restricted now. Section 144 imposed in PDF.

Thandiani?

TTP are worried about saving their own a$$es these days how can they threaten an Afghan Forces personnel?

 

[Zibago]

Maybe her higher ups want her to blame this faction so that the Murree process doesnot get disturbed hmm new conspiracy theory i am good

@fakhre mirpur

Only five tags get tag notification, over and above this number is restricted now. Section 144 imposed in PDF.

Thandiani?

TTP are worried about saving their own a$$es these days how can they threaten an Afghan Forces personnel?

Hain yeh kab hua?

 

[I.R.A]

Hain yeh kab hua?

Don't know I kept asking you about why I don't get alert for your tagging, and then I read somewhere I think in suggestions forums that tag alerts have been restricted to 5

 

[Spring Onion]

Maybe her higher ups want her to blame this faction so that the Murree process doesnot get disturbed hmm new conspiracy theory i am good


Hain yeh kab hua?

i think you are THARKI sans any logic at least in this thread

 

[Zibago]

Thandiani?

Program delayed till next sunday cuz i am home alone(again)

i think you are THARKI sans any logic at least in this thread

No i am not atleast not in this thread she was a hero and a role model to many afghani girls

 

[Indus Pakistan]

cock and bull story.

NVM UK/US should grant her citizenship

Agreed. There is a cottage industry in Afghanistan mostly ran by ex North Alliance people who can't get over 1990s disparaging Pakistan. The Pakistani Taliban and Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat gives it away.

Afghanistan is the mother lode of of extremists groups but here we have a tiny splinter group in Pakistan giving out threats and then this gets amplified on media.

This is all part of the drip, drip of propaganda that poisons minds in Afghanistan against Pakistan.

 

[Spring Onion]

No i am not atleast not in this thread she was a hero and a role model to many afghani girls

And one fine morning she decided to overthrow that title for a bigger gain?

Agreed. There is a cottage industry in Afghanistan mostly ran by ex North Alliance people who can't get over 1990s. The Pakistani Taliban and Tehrik-e-Taliban Swat gives it away.

Afghanistan is the mother lode of of extremists groups but here we have a tiny splinter group in Pakistan giving out threats and then this gets amplified on media.

This is all part of the drip, drip of propaganda that poisons minds in Afghanistan against Pakistan.

this particular story does not make any sense. Because as I mentioned a lot of fun activities are going on in Swat so if at all any Swati Taliban faction felt anything against Islam it would have threatened locals instead of an Afghan female pilot .

 

[Zibago]

this particular story does not make any sense. Because as I mentioned a lot of fun activities are going on in Swat so if at all any Swati Taliban faction felt anything against Islam it would have threatened locals instead of an Afghan female pilot .

They all migrated to Kunar and Paktia they should change their name now

SO these talabeen muhajireen now want to establish strongholds in Afghanistan after getting their tushkatees kicked by Pakistan

 

[Indus Pakistan]

And one fine morning she decided to overthrow that title for a bigger gain?



this particular story does not make any sense. Because as I mentioned a lot of fun activities are going on in Swat so if at all any Swati Taliban faction felt anything against Islam it would have threatened locals instead of an Afghan female pilot .

Bingo. That is what I am saying.

 

[pakdefender]

She should ask the Afghan government why it is giving shelter to Fazlullah of TTP on Afghan soil, she should also ask the Afghan government to arrest the TTP leader and hand over to Pakistan to face justice in military courts

 

[SP!TF!R3]

“Islam has instructed women not to work with the Americans or British,”

LOL..when did Muhammad ever quote anything against USA/Britain??

If it is true,then its not Columbus but Muhammad who discovered USA.

I didn't know Talib@st@rds have sense of humour

by the way,this kind of threat is very common..sometimes they really do it..

Indian author Sushmita Banerjee killed in Afghanistan by Taliban - The Times of India

 

[jamahir]

4. if she had resigned then she must be facing opposition from her own countrymen and family .

yes, the article indicates fear of "honor killing" by her extended family.

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?

maybe swat taliban felt that the afghan taliban are losing their fear effect.