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Afghanistan welcomes back ‘Afghan girl’

Sharbat Gula with Ashraf Ghani (right)

By: Eastern Eye Staff

Afghanistan’s president on Wednesday (November 9) welcomed back Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover, after she was deported from Pakistan to the war-torn homeland she first fled decades ago. Pakistani officials handed over Gula, whose haunting eyes were captured in a cover photo taken in a refugee camp in the 1980s, to Afghan border authorities after escorting her from a Peshawar hospital where she was being treated for Hepatitis C. Gula, arguably Afghanistan’s most famous refugee, was arrested last month for living in Pakistan on fraudulent identity papers. “Pleased to have welcomed Sharbat Gula &…

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