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Sharbat Gula, The Afghan Girl, has mesmerised the world, first with her stunning green eyes on National Geographic’s Cover and now with her continued life story. For the first time read her whole story covering the last thirty-three years. New photographs included. By Amanda Ricks and Surprising Lives
Sharbat Gula, The Afghan Girl: Where is she today? The full updated storyRead More
Just a few days after a controversial departure from Pakistan, it was announced that Sharbat Gula had Hepatitis C and would be traveling to India for treatment. It seemed as if Sharbat, “The Afghan Girl,” was finally safe in a new apartment in Pakistan with her children when I heard this news. It felt as …
Sharbat Gula has returned to Afghanistan. She is safe, and I am grateful. I have been following Sharbat Gula and her difficult life story for a few years and her recent circumstances have concerned me a lot. Sharbat has returned to her native country amid a flurry of media and a special welcome greeting from …
Her name, Sharbat Gula, in the Pashto language of the Pashtun people, means sweetwater flower girl. Her photograph of 1984 taken by Steve McCurry was National Geographic’s most famous photograph. Sadly, the end of October 2016, Sharbat Gula was arrested with two men, said to be her sons, in Peshawar, Pakistan. The action was a “complete …
Sharbat Gula, The Afghan Girl, In Trouble And Needing HelpRead More
For seventeen years Photographer Steve McCurry was haunted by the young girl with the mesmerising green eyes that he photographed in Afganistan in 1984. As he says, not a week goes by when someone didn’t ask about “The Afghan Girl.” Sharbat Gula. Her name, in the Pashto language of the Pashtun people, means sweetwater flower girl. …
Sharbat Gula the young Afgan girl who mesmerized the world from a national geographic cover for 17 years was an enigma. But where was she today? Found out what happened.
