Tajamul Islam, a seven-year-old girl, is set to become the first Indian to represent the country at the World Kickboxing Championship in Andria, Italy, from November 14 to 19.



Tajamul, who hails from a small village in North Kashmir's Bandipora district, will be the first Kashmiri girl to take part in kickboxing at the international level.



Tajamul comes from a humble family. Her father, Ghulam Mohammad Lone, is a driver with Hindustan Construction Company.



The school-going kid has been a sensation in Bandipora and is inspiring the girls of Kashmir. She was adjudged the best fighter of Jammu & Kashmir in 2014 in a district championship in Bandipora.



Not only that, she went a step further when she bagged a gold in the sub-junior category in the National Kickboxing Championship in New Delhi in December last year, booking her berth at this year's World Championship.



Her coach Faisal Ali Dar has praised her dedication and thanked the girl's parents and school teachers for supporting the young talent.



"Tajamul has shown ultimate fortitude considering her tender age but her success is the combined efforts of her parents, who supported her in every possible way, her teachers at Goodwill school, who worked really hard to polish her raw talent and most of all the senior vice-president kick-boxing Federation of India, Mr Ghulam Nabi Tantray, who encouraged Tajamul to show her talent even after some age related issues surfaced," Dar was quoted saying by Kashmir Observer.



Vice-president of the Kickboxing Federation of India Ghulam Nabi Tantray is confident of Tajamul's success.



"I saw something amazingly different in her when she won the gold medal in Delhi and I was fully determined to remove any obstacle coming her way. I believe that she will set new milestones of success," Ghulam Nabi Tantray said.