Latifa Nabizada

Latifa Nabizada is an Afghan helicopter pilot in the Afghan Air Force. She is one of the first two women pilots to serve in Afghanistan that were qualified to fly a Mi-17 helicopter. By 2013, she was a colonel in the new Afghan Air Force.

Biography Early life and career Nabizada grew up in a middle-class neighborhood in the 1970s, though her father spent six years in jail after being accused of being a member of the Mujahadeen. She is ethnically Uzbek, They were denied several times on "medical grounds," but were finally admitted in 1989 when a civilian doctor certified them. Both sisters had to make their own uniforms, since there were no women's uniforms ready made in the military. Both Latifa and her sister began to fly transport missions during the Afghan civil war. Most of her missions with her daughter were humanitarian in nature.

Published works ″Greif nach den Sternen, Schwester!″ Mein Kampf gegen die Taliban. With Andrea-Claudia Hoffmann. Munich: Knaur 2014.