{"id":145961,"date":"2021-11-27T06:26:03","date_gmt":"2021-11-27T06:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/?p=145961"},"modified":"2021-11-27T06:26:03","modified_gmt":"2021-11-27T06:26:03","slug":"37-years-after-her-piercing-green-eyes-gripped-the-world-afghan-girl-starts-new-life-in-italy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/precoinnews.com\/world-news\/37-years-after-her-piercing-green-eyes-gripped-the-world-afghan-girl-starts-new-life-in-italy\/","title":{"rendered":"37 years after her piercing green eyes gripped the world, ‘Afghan girl’ starts new life in Italy"},"content":{"rendered":"
An Afghan woman who achieved international recognition after a striking photograph of her was featured on the cover of National Geographic is starting a new life in Italy.<\/p>\n
Sharbat Gulla was 12 years old when war photographer Steve McCurry took her photograph in a refugee camp in 1984 – her piercing green eyes staring into the lens.<\/p>\n
Italy’s prime minister, Mario Draghi, says the country organised her evacuation after she asked for help in leaving Afghanistan following the Taliban’s takeover.<\/p>\n
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Ms Gulla will now receive help to help her integrate into Italian life.<\/p>\n
In 2014, she surfaced in Pakistan but was forced to go into hiding after she was accused of buying a fake identity card.<\/p>\n
She was deported and flown to Kabul, where then president Ashraf Ghani hosted a reception and handed her keys to a new apartment.<\/p>\n
Italy was one of several Western countries that airlifted hundreds of Afghans out of the country following the departure of US forces in August.<\/p>\n
Mr Draghi said Ms Gulla’s photograph had come to “symbolise the vicissitudes and conflict of the chapter in history that Afghanistan and its people were going through at the time”.<\/p>\n