New Delhi: Sharbat Gula of Afghanistan, popularly known as “Afghan Girl” with green eyes, has been given safe shelter by Italy. The 1985 photograph of Sharbat Gula in National Geographic became a symbol of her country’s wars and became a topic of discussion internationally.
According to a report, the office of Prime Minister Mario Draghi informed Italy about giving safe shelter on sherbet gula. In fact, a statement said that after the establishment of Taliban rule in Afghanistan in August, Gula had sought help to leave Afghanistan. After this, the government intervened in the matter. Her shelter in Italy was part of a wider program to evacuate and integrate Afghan civilians, the statement said.
Let us tell you that American photographer Steve McCurry took a picture of Sharbat Gula living in a refugee camp on the Pakistan-Afghan border. Gula was a young girl then. The angry photo of her green eyes, headscarf on his head, and pain on her face shook the world. The picture of Sharbat Gula, which appeared on the National Geographic Channel in 1985, became a topic of discussion in many countries around the world. The report said that Gula had sought help to leave Afghanistan during the Taliban’s capture of Afghanistan in August and then efforts to form a Taliban government. After which the government intervened.
This picture of Gula was enough to tell the whole story in one picture of the pain of Afghan citizens of that era. This picture later became a symbol of the pain of Afghans. It is said that, many years later, in the year 2002, when photographer Steve McCurry once again reached Afghanistan, he rediscovered Sharbat Gula, and once again her new picture made headlines.
Earlier, in 2016, Gula was arrested by Pakistan on charges of attempting to stay in the country and forging a national identity card. However, the then Afghan President Ashraf Ghani had welcomed him and promised an apartment to ensure that. Now after the rule of the Talibani government in Afghanistan, questions are being raised once again on women’s freedom.
According to the report, the situation in Afghanistan is not already hidden from the world. It is said about Sharbat Gul that, like hundreds of Afghans, she too has suffered many pains. In 1979, nearly five years after the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, Sharbat Gula was also one of the millions of Afghans who came close to the Pakistan border to save their lives. It is said that the young Sharbat Gula had become orphaned then. She was sent back to Afghanistan in 2019 by the Pakistan government after arresting him. At the same time, according to Italy, Italy has pulled out about 5,000 Afghans from Afghanistan in early September after the Taliban’s capture in Afghanistan.
