Nighat is Kashmir’s first female football coach. The football aficionado was born and brought up in a middle-class Muslim family from Rambagh, a locality two kilometres away from of the Srinagar city. She explained how all girl students in her locality had almost no interest in sports.
To her credit, she has 10 national and state level awards. She presently runs a football academy in Rambagh and trains more than 30 children, including three girls.
