[3] 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.

[2] In 1996, when the Taliban seized Kabul, the sisters moved to Mazar-i Sharif in a secure place found by General Abdul Rashid Dostum.

[6] Their hiding place in Mazar-i Sharif was betrayed by a former Air Force member who defected to the Taliban and the sisters and their family fled to Pakistan because their lives were threatened.

[4] In 1998, during the capture of Mazar-i Sharif, she and her sister stole a helicopter with the intention of fleeing to safe haven to Uzbekistan, but they eventually turned back because of their family who they couldn't leave behind.

[2] She and her family finally settled in Pakistan where they lived in the refugee camps around Peshawar until 2000, when they decided to move back to Afghanistan.

[6] In 2013, Nabizada's family faced death threats from the Taliban due to her flying, so she was transferred to a desk job at the Afghan Ministry of Defense in Kabul.