National Geographic magazine’s famous green-eyed “afghan girlItaly has arrived as part of the evacuation of Afghans to the west Taliban capture the countryThe Italian government has said
The office of the Prime Minister, Mario Draghi, said Italy Organized the evacuation of Sharbat Gula after asking for help leaving the country. The statement said on Thursday that the Italian government would help him integrate into life in Italy.
Gula gained international fame as an Afghan refugee girl in 1984, when her green-eyed photograph of war photographer Steve McCurry was published on the cover of National Geographic. McCurry found her again in 2002.
In 2014, she was in Pakistan but went into hiding when authorities accused her of buying fake Pakistani identity cards and ordered her deportation. He was taken to Kabul, where the President organized a reception for him at the Rashtrapati Bhavan and handed over the keys to a new flat.
Italy was one of several Western countries that had driven hundreds of Afghans out of the country after US forces left Taliban acquisition in August