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Early life. Gula was born around 1972 into a Pashtun family. [2] . In the early 1980s, her village was attacked by Soviet helicopters and it was initially reported that during the attacks her parents were killed. [2] . Her sisters, brothers and grandmother moved to Pakistan to the Nasir Bagh refugee camp on the border with Afghanistan. [2] .
- 5 (1 deceased)
- Rahmat Gul (?–2012; his death)
- Afghan
- June 1985 cover photograph of National Geographic
Dec 12, 2017 · Sharbat Gula, who became an instant icon when she peered out from the June 1985 cover of National Geographic magazine as a 12-year-old-refugee, is now the owner of a 3,000-square-foot residence...
Nov 26, 2021 · Sharbat Gula, who became an international symbol of war-torn Afghanistan after her portrait at a refugee camp was published on the cover of National Geographic magazine in 1985, was evacuated...
Sep 20, 2021 · Gula, who was forced to flee from her village in eastern Nangarhar after it was bombed by the Soviets, walked with her family, including her three sisters, brother and grandmother, across the...
Nov 25, 2021 · Gula gained international fame in 1984 as an Afghan refugee girl, after war photographer Steve McCurry's photograph of her, with piercing green eyes, was published on the cover of National...
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Jan 16, 2017 · Sharbat Gula now lives with her five-year-old son and three daughters in Kabul, where she says she wants to live a normal life after years of tragedy and hardship. Her portrait as a...
Sharbat Gula. Owner. Steve McCurry. Afghan Girl is a 1984 photographic portrait of Sharbat Gula, an Afghan refugee in Pakistan during the Soviet–Afghan War. The photograph, taken by American photojournalist Steve McCurry near the Pakistani city of Peshawar, appeared on the June 1985 cover of National Geographic.
