Afghan Girl: The Moving Tale Of The Woman Behind The World’s Most Iconic Photograph
All The Suffering She Grew Into
Sharbat Gula’s fate was one of suffering and tragedy. Her mother and father were killed during the Soviet’s bombing of Afghanistan when she was about six years old. Along with her brothers and grandmother, she walked across the mountains to Pakistan in order to reach the Nasir Bagh refugee camp (the place where she was spotted by Steve McCurry).
In the camp, she married a man named Rhamat Gula, with whom she had three daughters. She was not older than 16 at the time of the wedding. Sharbat and her family went back to Afghanistan in 1992, where her husband would later die of Hepatitis C.
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