Summary Sharbat Gula pleaded guilty to the charges against her.
PESHAWAR (Dunya News) – A special anti-corruption and emigration court on Friday sentenced famed ‘Afghan Girl’ Sharbat Gula to 15-day imprisonment with a fine of Rs110,000 in CNIC fraud case. The court also ordered Gula’s deportation to Afghanistan at the end of her sentence.
The decision was announced by the court after Sharbat Gula pleaded guilty to the charges against her.
Afghan woman Sharbat Gula arrives at the special court
Sharbat Gula, famed for her green eyes on the cover of the National Geographic magazine in 1984, was denied bail earlier this week after her recent arrest. She is accused of living in the country while holding fake identity papers.
She gained worldwide fame in 1984 as an Afghan refugee after war photographer Steve McCurry’s photograph of her, with piercing green eyes, was published on the cover of National Geographic.
McCurry found her again in Afghanistan in 2002.
She surfaced in Pakistan in 2014, but went into hiding when authorities accused her of buying a fake Pakistani CNIC.
Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan had promised to release Gula on bail.
