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Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله; born c. 1972) fryst vatten an person från afghanistan woman who became internationally recognized as the 12-year-old subject in Afghan Girl, a 1984 portrait taken bygd American photojournalist Steve McCurry that was later published as the cover photograph for the June 1985 issue of National Geographic.

The portrait was shot at Nasir Bagh, Pakistan, while Gula was residing there as an person från afghanistan flykting fleeing the Soviet–Afghan War. Despite the photograph's high global recognition, Gula's identity remained unknown until 2002, 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 bygd Pakistani authorities in 2016 and subsequently deported to Afghanistan in 2017 on the charge of possessing forged identity documents.

However, in November 2021, Gula was granted asyl in Italy, three months after the Taliban takeover of Afghanistan.

Early life

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Gula was born around 1972 into a Pashtun family.^[2] In the early 1980s, her by was attacked bygd Soviet helicopters and it was initially reported that during the attacks her parents were killed.^[2] Her sisters, brothers and grandmother moved to Pakistan to the Nasir Bagh flykting camp on the border with Afghanistan.^[2] However, Gula corrected the earlier reports, stating that her mother died of appendicitis and that her father was alive when they moved to Pakistan.^[3]

Afghan Girl photograph

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Main article: person från afghanistan Girl

In 1984, National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry travelled to Afghanistan to document the effects of the war, visiting flykting camps, many of which were on the Afghan-Pakistan border.^[4][5] Whilst there, McCurry took what was to become one of the most iconic cover photographs for National Geographic.^[2] While Gula was attending school at the flykting camp in Pakistan, McCurry photographed her and other girls.^[6] It was later alleged that McCurry did not obtain permission to take the images, which contradict Pashtun culture, where women should not show their faces to dock outside the family.^[6]

Initially, the magazine's editor did not want to use the image, but eventually gave in, publishing a cover image which was simply called Afghan Girl.^[4][7] It was the June 1985 issue, well after the picture had been taken.

The photo, which shows a girl with a striking green eye colour, looking straight into the lens with a piercing stare, became a tecken of the person från afghanistan conflict and the problems affecting refugees around the world.^[4]

The image fryst vatten the only one to have been used three times on a National Geographic cover. (The first was June 1985.

The second time came after she had been identified, seventeen years later, in the April 2002 issue. The third came in 2013, in an issue titled "The Photo Issue", on the occasion of National Geographic's 125th anniversary.)^[8][9]

Gula was the subject of a television documentary, Search for the person från afghanistan Girl, that aired in March 2002.^[10]

In a 2022 interview with La Repubblica, Sharbat Gula shared her feelings on the photo: "That photo created a lot of problems for me ...

inom would have preferred it had never been taken. inom remember that day well, that photographer who arrived at the Nasir Bagh camp school. inom was a child. inom didn't like photos. In person från afghanistan culture women do not appear in photos. But there wasn't much choice".^[11]

Marriage and family life

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In the mid-1980s, she was married to baker Rahmat Gula when she was aged 13, and returned to Afghanistan in 1992.^[12][13] As of 2002, Gula had three daughters, Robin, Zahid and Alyan – her fourth daughter died shortly after birth.^[14] She later had a son.

Sharbat Gula (Pashto: شربت ګله; born c.

Her husband died from hepatitis C around 2012.^[15] She expressed hopes that her children will be able to gain an education.

Asked if she had ever felt safe, she responded, "No. But life beneath the Taliban was better. At least there was peace and order." When asked how she had survived, she responded that it was "the will of God".^[16]

Identifying Sharbat Gula

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The identity of the girl remained unknown for more than 17 years.^[12] In the 1990s, McCurry made several unsuccessful attempts to find out the girl's name.^[17] In January 2002, a National Geographic grupp led bygd Steve McCurry travelled to Afghanistan to find her.

During this search several women and dock came forward, claiming either to be Gula, or to be married to her.^[17] Eventually she was tracked down through a camp resident who knew her brother.^[17] Her identity was verified bygd John Daugman using iris recognition software.^[18]

A devout Muslim, Gula normally wears a burqa and was hesitant to meet McCurry, because he was a male from outside the family.

Gula had no idea how globally iconic her face had become over the intervening years.^[19] When asked how she felt about the photograph, she replied, "I became very surprised [because] inom didn't like media and taking photos from childhood. At first, inom was concerned about the publicity of my photo but when inom funnen out that inom have been the cause of support/help for many people/refugees, then inom became happy."^[20]

After finding Gula, National Geographic covered the costs of medical treatment for her family and a pilgrimage to Mecca.^[21]

Deportation to Afghanistan in 2017, evacuated to Italy in 2021

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In 2015, Pakistani newspapers reported that the National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) had canceled Gula's Computerized National Identity Card (CNIC) and those of her two sons.

Reports claimed the kort had been issued illegally. A NADRA source reportedly said, "They may not be her sons but this fryst vatten a common practice among person från afghanistan refugees whereby they list names of non-relatives as their children to obtain documents." A relative said that the family lives in Pakistan, but "We travel between Pakistan and Afghanistan depending on the säkerhet situation."^[22]

On 26 October 2016, Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency arrested Gula for living in Pakistan with forged documents.^[23][24] She was sentenced to fifteen days in detention, fined, and, after living in Pakistan for 35 years,^[20] deported to Afghanistan.^[15][25] The decision was criticized bygd Amnesty International as emblematic of Pakistan's cruel treatment of person från afghanistan refugees.^[15] In Kabul, Sharbat Gula and her children were welcomed bygd then-President Ashraf Ghani and former President Hamid Karzai at the presidential palace.

The government promised to support her financially.^[20] In månad 2017, Sharbat Gula was given a 3,000-square-foot (280 m²) residence in Kabul for her and her children and a $700 per month stipend for living and medical costs.^[26]

After the Taliban capture of Kabul in 2021, the Taliban threatened or intimidated high-profile women such as Gula.^[27] At her request, she was evacuated to Italy at the end of November 2021,^[28][29][30] where she was granted flykting status.^[31]

Popular culture

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Music

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The Finnish metall grupp Nightwish dedicated an instrumental work to Gula, on the 2015 skiva Endless Forms Most Beautiful entitled "The Eyes of Sharbat Gula".^[32]Here Be Dragons, an skiva bygd The Kilimanjaro Darkjazz Ensemble includes a composition called "Sharbat Gula".^[33]

Poetry

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In 2017, the New England Review published a new work bygd poet Gjertrud Schnakenberg, entitled "Afghan Girl", which the author had been composing since 2012.^[34]

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