Srinagar: Kaneez Fatima is Ladakh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second woman pilot. She is 24. Soon after she completed her training, Air India hired her. Ladakh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first Muslim pilot is Hina Masood who is already working with Air India.<\/p>\n
The rise of Kaneez Fatima from the arid desert region of Kashmir is a fascinating story.<\/p>\n
A resident of a Leh locality near the Polo Ground, Kaneez\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s parents got separated when she was very young. She was brought up by her mother Shakeela Banoo, a nurse in the state-run Leh hospital.<\/p>\n
They are two sisters. Nahida Ibrahim, 28, the elder one, who is an engineer working for the Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (HAL) and is posted in Bangalore. She studied engineering in Srinagar and was appointed by the HAL, a government-owned company that is into the manufacturer of choppers and light aircraft. Kaneez is the younger one who finally made it to the skies. Srinagar: Kaneez Fatima is Ladakh\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s second woman pilot. She is 24. Soon after she completed her training, Air India hired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[32,8,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2274","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-air-india","category-pilots","category-pilot-jobs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2274\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indianaviationnews.net\/careers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nAbdul Majid, a relative of Kaneez said that the family has struggled a lot to make things happen. With the active support of her grandparents \u00e2\u20ac\u201c Haji Fatima Banu and late Ghulam Rasool, their nurse mother worked hard to ensure her daughter pursue the careers they choose for themselves. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153She lifted a huge amount of loan from a bank for the same,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Majid said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153The entire amount lifted from the bank as a loan was spent on Kaneez and it will take her mother some more time to liquidate that.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d
\n13\/09\/18 Umar Khurshid\/Kashmir Life<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"