Pakistan authorities arrested the "Afghan girl"

The authorities of Pakistan arrested the "Afghan girl" - Sharbat Gulu - for the use of a fake identity certificate.

Gula became known after the publication of the details of 1985 by the magazine "National Geographic" report from the Afghan refugee camp in Peshavar. The Pashtun Village in Afghanistan, in which the Gul family lived, became the object of a Soviet air attack; Parents Sharbat died. A portrait picture of the 12-year-old "green-eyed Afghan Girl", made by the military photojournalist Steve McCarri, published on the cover of the magazine, is considered experts by a masterpiece of reporting. This photograph has become a symbol of the suffering of refugees during the Soviet invasion of Afyganistan. The name of the girl at that time remained unknown.

In 2015, in Prague, an exhibition of photographs of Steve McCarri from the Nasir-Bag refugee camp in Peshawar was held in Prague

In 2002, the journalists of National Geographic, led by McCarri, found the heroine of the shooting in the border Afghan-Pakistani zone. The matured Sharm Gul starred in the documentary "In Search of the Afghan Girl". The magazine held an extensive charitable campaign and established the "Afghan Children Foundation" to help the refugee families.

Now Sharbat Gule threatens a long prison term of imprisonment. The representative of the Pakistani authorities said that the rumble was arrested during the police raid on October 26 in Peshavar. Recently, Pakistan authorities have been actively struggling against illegal migration. According to the UN, Pakistan took about 1.4 million Afghan refugees.