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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...burqa and tossing it to the ground. "I train soldiers. I am Khatol!" Hearing that name, the guards apologized and, too flustered even to salute, opened the gates. Khatol Muhammadzai is the highest-ranking woman in Afghanistan's air force and the country's first and only female parachutist. That day, after more than five long years of forced retirement, Khatol had come back to work...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Afghan Woman: From Burqa To Beret | 9/9/2002 | See Source »

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