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. …
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Sharbat Gula, The Afghan Girl: Where Is She Today?
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.