![]() ![]() ( Read the news of her arrest.)Īt the time, she was raising four children and was suffering from hepatitis C, which killed her husband years earlier. ![]() ![]() She faced up to 14 years in prison and a $5,000 fine. Sharbat Gula was arrested late last year for using a forged Pakistani identity card-a common practice among the 1 million Afghan refugees who live in the country without legal status. Now she has become a symbol of a return to Afghanistan that hundreds of thousands of refugees are undertaking after decades away. In her homeland she became known as the “Afghan Mona Lisa.” Photographer Steve McCurry’s picture of her made her the unwitting posterchild for the plight of thousands of Afghan refugees streaming into Pakistan. Orphaned at age six during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, she had trekked by foot to Pakistan with her siblings and grandmother. ![]() Sharbat Gula’s piercing green eyes made her an instant icon. It comes after three decades as a refugee in Pakistan and a tumultous last year back in Afghanistan. Sharbat Gula, known to much of the world simply as the "Afghan girl," received the keys to the home late last month in a ceremony led by Afghan government officials. ![]()
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