Policemen escort Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan woman whose photo as a girl appeared on the cover of “National Geographic” magazine, as she arrives at a court in Peshawar on Friday. A Pakistani prosecutor says a court in Peshawar has ordered that National Geographic’s famed green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’ be deported. Sharbat Gula was arrested 10 days ago for allegedly having forged identity papers and staying in Pakistan illegally. Ms. Gula gained international fame in 1984 as an Afghan refugee girl, after war photographer Steve McCurry’s photograph of her with piercing green eyes was published on National Geographic’s cover. In 2014, she surfaced in Pakistan but went into hiding when the authorities accused her of buying a fake Pakistani identity card.

Source: The Hindu November 04, 2016 10:51 UTC