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SRINAGAR: Thirty-year-old Iram Habib has become the first Kashmiri Muslim woman to become a pilot. She will join GoAir next month.Iram succeeds Tanvi Raina, a Kashmiri Pandit , who joined Air India as the Valley’s first woman pilot in 2016. In April last year, 21-year-old Ayesha Aziz, also from Kashmir, became India’s youngest student pilot.Iram’s road to becoming a pilot was never easy, especially since it passed through the conservative Kashmiri Muslim society. Iram, who is now taking classes in Delhi to get a commercial pilot licence, toldthat she completed her training from Miami in the US in 2016. “Kashmiri girls have always outshone boys in academics and I wish they achieve great heights in airline services too,” Tanvi said..