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Italy gives asylum to National Geographic’s famous ‘green-eyed’ Afghan girl |
2021-11-27 |
[KhaamaPress] Sharbat Gula, the Afghan ’green-eyed’ girl whose photo went viral after being printed on the cover of the National Geographic magazine in 1984, has now been given asylum by Italia, the Italian government announced on Thursday. The office of Premier Mario Draghi said Italia organized the evacuation of Sharbat Gula after she asked to be helped to leave the country. The Italian government will now help to get her integrated into life in Italia, the statement said. Sharbat Gula and her family members have been taken to Italia as part of Afghanistan’s emergency humanitarian program by the western countries. She got international fame after her photo taken by Steve McCurry was published on the cover page of a National Geographic magazine in 1984. The photographer found her again in 2002. Sharbat Gula used to live in a refugee camp in Pakistain for years and was forcefully deported to Kabul in 2017 after she was accused of holding a fake Pak identity card. The Afghan government welcomed her warm providing her with a free government apartment. Thousands of notable Afghan women, officials, journalists, and rights activists have been evacuated to Europe, England, Canada, and the United States following the fall of Kabul in the hands of the Taliban ![]() on August 15, 2021. |
Posted by:trailing wife |
#7 ^ Middle age is what it is M. Murcek. |
Posted by: Secret Master 2021-11-27 21:14 |
#6 Are they cooling or cooking those pies? Let us ask that colleen with green eyes. "Sure, life would be duller If not for the choler Of green-eyed Mohammedan guys!" |
Posted by: Lionel Elmumble1080 2021-11-27 20:26 |
#5 Hep will make blue eyes look green. |
Posted by: Skidmark 2021-11-27 13:56 |
#4 From the related 2016 article: Sharbat Gula suffers from hepatitis C. She is also a widow and a mother of four children Apparently the photo was taken in 1985. |
Posted by: trailing wife 2021-11-27 12:41 |
#3 I read long ago that Sharbat Gula's identity was matched with that of the Afghan girl photo through iris identification processes, now used worldwide on vast numbers of people due to unique characteristics of the human iris. The old National Geographic photo clearly showed the match with iris of the contemporary Sharbat Gula. Article states she is now a widow but still has children to support. |
Posted by: Bubba Lover of the Faeries8843 2021-11-27 12:07 |
#2 She is in her later 40's now...correct? And pretty much in "that's a dude' territory, looks wise, if you didn't see the past picture next to the present. |
Posted by: M. Murcek 2021-11-27 08:28 |
#1 She is in her later 40's now...correct? "Thousands of Afghani's,officials, journalists, and rights activists have migrated to Europe and North America. An spread/Invasion of Islam continues. |
Posted by: NN2N1 2021-11-27 08:22 |