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Afghanistan Gets Its First Female Pilot In 3 Decades

Written By Unknown on Thursday, June 6, 2013 | 5:31 PM

June 6, 2013
Last month, Niloofar Rhmani became the first woman to graduate from the Afghan Air Force since the 1980s, and her story is making her a popular symbol of changing times.

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