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Green-eyed Afghan girl from iconic National Geographic cover arrested in Pakistan


  
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The green-eyed Afghan refugee girl whose iconic photograph captured the world’s attention three decades ago has been arrested for living illegally in Pakistan with fraudulent documents.

Pakistani police arrested Sharbat Gula, now married and in her forties, at her home in Peshawar on Tuesday, just a few miles from the border camp where the famous National Geographic cover image was taken in 1984.

Her arrest followed reports that she, like many Afghans, had illegally procured false Pakistani identity cards - for herself and two men she claimed were her sons - in order to remain in the country.A 12-year-old Ms Gula came to global attention after photographer Steve McCurry took her picture at the the Nasir Bagh refugee camp, close to the Afghan border.
Her portrait was published on the magazine’s cover the following year, and helped to raise awareness and millions in aid for displaced Afghans.





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