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good news for all pakistani. i want to know that when paf recive first f16 52 block
weapons of mass distraction at their best! very cunning by PAF!
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Seven PAF Female Pilots posted to F-7 Squadron IDRW.ORG
Six years ago an ad in the Sunday paper changed a young Pakistani womans life and made aviation history.The ad read: Pakistan Air Force recruiting females cadets.Back then Ambreen Gul was 20-years old and living in Karachi. Her mother wanted her to be a doctor. She remembers her reaction when she told her she wants to fly.
She was like: Youre a girl, says Gul. How will you do it? How will you fly?
The following day Gul took the first step in proving her mother wrong. She was among the first in line at the recruitment center.For nearly six decades it was only men who had flown Pakistans fighter jets. Today Gul is one of seven women who are trained and ready to fly Pakistans F-7 supersonic fighter jets.This is a feeling that makes you proud and makes you humble also, says Gul.Humility doesnt mean lack of confidence.We can do everything better than the men, explains cadet Nida Tariq.
Were more hardworking, more consistent and more patient, adds cadet Anam Faiq.To become a fighter pilot takes three years of training at the Air Force Academy in Risalpur, Pakistan, where the halls are lined with grainy black-and-white pictures of nearly six decades of male graduates who went on to fly for the Pakistan Air Force.
The training is often intensely physical. Here, equal opportunity means equal treatment.If they are not good enough as per their male counterparts, we dont let them fly, says commanding officer Tanvir Piracha.Some of Pakistans female pilots wear hijabs. Others prefer to go without the Muslim headdress. Most say changing the misconception of Muslim women is just as important as serving their country.
Islam gives equal opportunity to females. Whatever we want to do we can, says pilot Nadia Gul.To tell you the truth Ive been given equal opportunity or I suppose more than men have been given, says Air Force cadet Sharista Beg.
Air Force officials say fighter pilots are playing a vital role in the fight against the Taliban. Theyre training in counterinsurgency, collecting aerial intelligence and targeting militant strongholds in the treacherous mountains of Pakistans tribal region along the Afghan border. Ambreen Gul says her goal now is to fly in combat.I would give my life for my country, she says.
But women rarely fly in combat anywhere in the world and its never been done in Pakistan. Its another barrier Gul plans to break.
weapons of mass distraction at their best! very cunning by PAF!
This initiative have changed the perception, thinking and ideals of many in Pakistan. i am sure they would prove equally lethal if put in combat.