Italy gives safe haven to green-eyed Afghan Girl from 1985 magazine cover - US photographer Steve McCurry took the picture of Gula when she was a youngster, living in a refugee camp on the Pakistan-Afghan border.
Meet the green-eyed Afghan Girl Sharbat Gula who became face of refugees - Sharbat Gula became Afghanistan s most famous refugee after US photographer Steve McCurry captured her face in a Pakistan refugee camp in the 1980s.
The famed green-eyed “Afghan Girl” from National Geographic magazine’s has arrived in Italy as part of the West’s evacuation of Afghans following the Taliban takeover of the country, the Italian government said Thursday.