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Sherbat Gullah, an Afghan citizen who reached the heights of fame overnight with the click of an American photographer, has taken refuge in Italy.
According to the American news agency NBC News, the green-eyed Afghan woman Sharbat Gullah has been given shelter by Italy. The Italian government says the Afghan citizen’s syrup has reached the gallery. Arrangements were made for the syrup to go to Italy as part of the government’s evacuation program.
NGOs working in Afghanistan have asked the Italian government to evacuate the sherbet herd. On his return to Afghanistan from Pakistan, Sharbat Gullah was not only officially welcomed by the then Afghan government but also given other privileges and rewards.
On October 20, 2016, the FIA in Pakistan had registered a case against Sharbat Gullah for obtaining Pakistan’s National Computerized Identity Card through forgery, while 3 NADRA officials were also involved in the case. Not only was Sharbat-e-Gullah issued a national identity card on the basis of forged documents, but as his sons, two other Afghans, Wali Muhammad and Rauf Khan, were also issued Pakistani national identity cards which had nothing to do with ‘Sharbat-e-Gullah’.
Sharbat Gullah was arrested in 2016 from Nothia area of Peshawar. After which cases were registered on the basis of 3 violations. He was arraigned in court on November 2, where his bail application was rejected.
In Pakistan, Sharbat Gullah was also accused of making fake identity cards for another 500 Afghans. During his stay in Pakistan, the Afghan diplomat also had secret meetings with Sharbat Gullah several times.
According to media reports, secret contacts of Sharbat Gullah were also revealed with the Indian diplomats who were expelled from Pakistan in 2016. According to security sources, the network of these Indian RAW agents was shattered while monitoring the secret activities of Sharbat Gullah.
The then Khyber Pakhtunkhwa government (which belonged to the PTI) and PTI chairman Imran Khan opposed the deportation of Sharbat Gullah on humanitarian grounds and offered him a place in the province.
It should be noted that the American photographer McCurry had taken a picture of Sharbat Gullah in 1984 in a refugee camp in Pakistan. However, in 2016, Sharbat Gullah was sent back to Afghanistan. Sherbat-e-Gullah was famous all over the world when it came to the cover of an international magazine.
It was a cold winter’s day in 1984, when an American photographer was walking to a tent camp for Afghan refugees in Nasir Bagh, a suburb of Peshawar, with a machine in hand, where the refugees were busy with their daily routines.
American cameraman Steve McRae was protecting the Afghan settlement day and night from the camera’s eye, and at the same time his camera captured a picture of the sherbet herd, which is still fresh in people’s memories. At the time, Sharbat Gullah was a student at the school, who looked different from her classmates because of her eyesight.
The photographer skillfully photographed the 12-year-old ‘sherbet herd’ and walked away, regardless of how famous these eyes were in the days to come. The photo was later published on the cover of National Geographic Magazine in June 1985. This photo of a green-eyed Afghan girl staring into the camera’s eyes.
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