Amid tight security arrangements, iconic Afghan woman Sharbat Gula was deported at Torkham, the Pak-Afghan sharing border, the border security forces' sources said on Wednesday. Remained in jail for two weeks, Sharbat Gula who is believed to be in her 40s and mother of three was extradited to her home in Afghanistan and handed over to Afghan authorities, at 2:00am of the Tuesday and Wednesday night at the Torkham border, official sources confirmed.
Sharbat Gula, whose blazing green eyes were captured in an image taken in a Pakistan refugee camp in the 1980s that became the Nat Geo magazine's most famous cover, was discharged from hospital where she was being treated for Hepatitis C and taken to the border overnight, officials said.
"We have deported Sharbat Gula to Afghanistan. She crossed the border to Afghanistan at around 2:30am. She was also accompanied by her four children," Asmatullah Wazir, an administration official in the border town of Torkham said.
A second official, requesting anonymity, confirmed the move and said Gula, 45, was accompanied by officials from the Afghan Embassy. The Afghan woman got world-wide fame when National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry captured her photograph at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp situated in Peshawar in 1984 and her portrait was published at the cover of National Geographic. Earlier, Sharbat Gula was arrested by the Federal Investigating Agency (FIA) at her residency in Peshawar in fraudulently obtaining national identity card. The authorities said Shurbat Gula received unlawfully Pakistani identity card in 1988 and a computerised card in 2014 to travel for Hajj to Saudi Arabia. Last week during hearing in special court she had been found guilty and was sentenced 15-day imprisoned and fine of 110,000 rupees to be paid. The court had also passed ruling of her deportation.
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