Pakistan: Female pilot breaks age, gender barriers

Minelle Faruqi from Karachi is Pakistan's youngest commercial pilot. She was just 18 years old when she earned her wings.

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00:00What was the shock of flying in my childhood?

00:05I was in my DNA in my childhood.

00:09It was in me from day one.

00:13I was fascinated by planes from day one.

00:15My house is in the Karachi Approach Path,

00:17so planes are a thing that I see from my childhood

00:20and take off and land.

00:21And I knew that this is the path I want to follow.

00:30I would say not only for girls.

00:45For me, this message is that whatever fashion is,

00:48follow through it, don't let anyone stop you.

00:50There will be hundreds of people.

00:52Even in a profession that might not be male-dominated,

00:55there will be many people who are in there.

01:00There will be more people who are in there.

01:02There will be more people who are in there.

01:04There will be more people who are in there.

01:06I would say that we will take a small class of motorcycle.

01:08There will be more people who are in there.

01:10For some girls, we will take a small class of motorcycle.

01:12Here, we will take this manual.

01:14You can see that it is our course of 2 years.

01:16It is about 2 years.

01:18You have to take a CPL,

01:21and you have to take a CPL,

01:23and this child has completed a class of 11-12 months.

01:26Within one year, she completed everything,

01:28and she got lessons, commercial-powered lessons from the Civil Aviation Authority Pakistan.

01:33It's a meaningful.

01:45Anything related to flying is the biggest goal I can achieve in my life.

01:48And obviously, with the air ambulance, you have also saved the knowledge of human beings.

01:52So with that, I would say a proud moment for myself.