“The Afghan Mona Lisa” was allowed to stay in Pakistan

Sharbat Gula

Pakistani authorities have declared that will not deport detained October 26, with the fake documents, the refugee Sharbat Gulu (Sharbat Gula), which is known as the “Afghan girl” cover of National Geographic magazine. About it reports the local edition of Dawn.

The decision was taken on humanitarian grounds as a gesture of goodwill towards Afghanistan. During the hearing, the woman, her lawyer said that the Rumble is the only breadwinner in the family and also suffering from hepatitis C. she is Now able to obtain official refugee status.

9 Nov Gulu osvobozhdat after 15 days of detention. The government of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa was going to deport a woman from the country.

Gulu detained in the city of Peshawar, where she after fleeing from his native country lived on forged documents. The officer issued the woman a fake identity card was also arrested, but later released him on bail.

Sharbat Gula is famous in the world in 1985, when her photograph, taken by Steve McCurry in a refugee camp, made the cover of National Geographic magazine. The name of the picture girl for a long time was not known, it is often called “Afghan Mona Lisa”.

In 2002, National Geographic found the heroine of his cover in Afghanistan, at the same time and was able to officially establish her identity. McCurry also met with Sharbat by Gulay and recognized her as the “Afghan Mona Lisa”. The exact age of the woman is unknown, but presumably she is now 44 years old.

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