Afghan girl biography
Sharbat Gula, The Afghan Girl: Where is she today?
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Sharbat Gula
Subject of Afghan Girl photograph
Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله; born c.&#;) is an Afghan woman who became internationally recognized as the year-old subject in Afghan Girl, a portrait taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June issue of National Geographic.
The portrait was shot at Nasir Bagh, Pakistan, while Gula was residing there as an Afghan refugee fleeing the Soviet–Afghan War. Despite the photograph's high global recognition, Gula's identity remained unknown until , when her whereabouts were verified and she was photographed for the second time in her life.[1] Having lived and raised a family in Pakistan for 35 years, Gula was arrested by Pakistani authorities in and subsequently deported to Afghanistan in on the charge of possessing forged identity documents.
However, in November , Gula was granted asylum in Italy, three months after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.