3. Biodata:
Captain Nilofar Rahmani was born 1993 in Afghanistan.  Rahmani was trained by American Air Force instructors and received her certificate after graduating from Shindand Air Base in 2013. She was 18 when she heard a news announcement saying the Afghan Air Force wanted to recruit pilot. She enlisted in the Afghan Air Force Officer Training Program in 2010 and in July 2012 graduated as a Second Lieutenant.  She flew her first solo flight in a Cessna 182 and decided she wanted to fly even larger aircraft so she attended advanced flight school and was soon flying the C-208 military cargo aircraft. She flew the injured men to hospital and reported her actions to her superiors who chose not to impose sanctions on her. Captain Rahmani is resolute and says she eventually aims to become a flight instructor to inspire other women and in spite of the Taliban's threats says she remains determined to continue her career in the Afghan Air Force and work as frequently as her security situation permits.

She will continue her service as she joins the Kabul Air Wing as a Cessna 208 pilot. She is the 1st Afghan female pilot in the history of Afghanistan, has been selected to receive the International Women of Courage Award 2015. The award is scheduled to be presented to Rahmany by the American 1st lady, Michelle Obama. Eight other females from around the world are also selected for this award who have shown an exceptional courage as gender equality.(20150307)

In 2013, Capt. Niloofar Rahmani became the country's first woman pilot in more than 30 years and the first to pilot fixed-wing aircraft - there were a few female helicopter pilots during Soviet-backed rule in the 1980s. She is now in the United States training on the far larger C-130 military transport craft.(20161207)

The first fixed-wing female pilot in the Afghan airforce Captain Niloofar Rahmani has sought asylum in the US. She said, she has the intention to remain in the US following a 15-month long training period in Texas. "Things are not changing" for the better in Afghanistan, Rahmani said, „Things are getting worse and worse.“ The pilot has already filed a petition seeking asylum in the US, where she hopes to join the air force. This comes as reports emerged late last year that Rahmani was receiving death threats. Rahmani is one of the celebrated personalities in Afghanistan for being the first female pilot to fly fixed-wing plane. She was presented the International Women of Courage award last year in Washington.(20161224)

Capt. Niloofar Rahmani, the first female pilot in the Afghan air force, has requested asylum in the United States over fears for her safety, her lawyer said. Kimberly Motley, Rahmani's lawyer, told  Rahmani has received death threats from insurgents and condemnation from Afghan government officials. She has been training at air bases in the United States for the past year and most recently completed training in Little Rock, Ark. Motley said Rahmani's family has relocated several times due to death threats.
"If she were to return to Afghanistan, she would be in fear of her safety," Motley said.(20161224)

Afghanistan’s first female pilot Nilofar Rahmani has dismissed reports of her apparent move to seek asylum in the U.S and reaffirmed her commitment to serve Afghanistan. Following a report published in the New York Times, Rahmani sent a letter to the Afghan Air Force and to TOLOnews stating that she had been misunderstood and misquoted by the newspaper.(20161228)

Rahmani awaits a response to her asylum request to the United States, which she filed last month after receiving threats from Taliban insurgents, according to her lawyer.(20170103)

Niloofar Rahmani, who became Afghanistan’s first female fixed-wing pilot in the country’s air force, has been granted asylum in the United States. (20180501)

She speaks Pashtu and English.