those eyes are actually quite scary..
[This message has been edited by Ums (edited March 14, 2002).]
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Originally posted by ahmadjee:
**It was said that she is a pathan from Pakistan.
I wonder how she ended up in Afghanistan?**
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She is a pathan who was photographed in Pakistan living in an Afghan refugee camp. Complicated stuff, isn't it? :)
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Ai khuda jazba-e-ehsaas na bakhsha hota…
Acha hota ager pather ka tarasha hota…
Waja-e-tehQeer hon insanon mein insan ho ker…
Pather ka hota to inhe insanon ne pooja hota…
**Slowly Sharbat told the story of a young girl whose life had been destroyed by war. Her earliest memories include sounds of planes overhead and bombs falling, of rising for prayer at dawn and going to bed each night hungry. Sharbat, a devout Muslim, said she regarded the burqa – much maligned in the West – as a beautiful part of her life, and said the Taliban had brought a sense of peace and security after the lawlessness that has plagued her country for years.
She expressed bitterness towards America for the bombing campaign, but also wanted to visit the United States, saying it seemed a beautiful place.**
She is Pashtun alright. :)
This lets us appreciate that the only protector and savior is Allah (swt).
I wonder what will most of the westerners think this icons attitude towards the barbaric Taliban and the all-enveloping burqa. May be they'll consider the thought of brainwashing just like in the case of John Walker.
i saw this picture so many times on nationalgeographic. But never thought it would be of that significance. She is absolutely beautiful but almost all afghans are just as beautiful as her.
http://www.melia.com/ngm/0204/feature0/
go there for whole story and more pictures
shes so beautiful man! but where is ehr neck in the second pic?
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Eye to Eye
Photograph by Steve McCurry
“She’s as striking as the young girl I photographed 17 years ago,” says Steve McCurry. Then as now, Sharbat Gula looks at the world with uncompromising, unforgettable eyes. Until she was shown the June 1985 Geographic this year, she had no idea that her image had been seen by millions. People have told McCurry that her face alone inspired them to aid refugees.
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A Treasured Family
Photograph by Steve McCurry
The focus of Sharbat Gula’s life is her husband, Rahmat Gul, and their daughters. She remembers her wedding day, when she was perhaps 16, as a happy one—possibly, her older brother told the Geographic team, the only happy day of her life. She became an orphan and refugee of war at about age six. Soviet bombing killed her parents, and her grandmother led her and her brother and sisters on foot, in winter, to Pakistan, where they lived in various camps. Here Sharbat holds Zahida, age 3, and her husband holds one-year-old Alia. Their oldest, Robina, is 13. A fourth daughter died in infancy. Sharbat says she hopes that her girls will get the education she was never able to complete.
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Time and Hardship
Photograph by Steve McCurry
Sharbat Gula does not know her exact age, but she is likely 28, 29, or 30. In the mid-1990s, during a lull in the fighting that has rocked Afghanistan for most of her life, she returned to her village. Hers has been a hand-to-mouth existence. She had not been photographed since Steve McCurry made her portrait in 1984, and she only agreed to be photographed again—to appear unveiled, without her burka—because her husband told her it would be proper. She is a private woman, uncomfortable with the attention of strangers. A devout Muslim, she attributes her survival to the “will of God.”
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A Doctor’s Opinion
Photograph by Steve McCurry
Is Sharbat Gula without question the famous “Afghan girl”? Though she remembers being photographed in the school tent of her refugee camp, and her resemblance to the girl in McCurry’s photo is apparent, the Geographic sought expert opinion. In Pakistan, ophthalmologist Mustafa Iqbal examined Sharbat, with her husband at her side. Iqbal felt “100 percent certain” that her iris patterns and eye freckles matched those in McCurry’s photo. A scar on the right side of her nose was another distinguishing mark.
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Fast-forward Sculpture
Photograph by Mark Thiessen
Working from the 1985 Geographic cover photo—and taking into consideration factors such as ethnicity, diet, and way of life—forensic sculptor Frank Bender of Philadelphia projects what the schoolgirl would look like today. National Geographic Television & Film commissioned this work from Bender after its crew returned from Pakistan, as a means to help verify that it had indeed found the “Afghan girl.”
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Without a Doubt
Photograph by Mark Thiessen
“I’m 100 percent sure this is the same person,” said Thomas Musheno, a forensic examiner for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in Washington, D.C. Musheno did a facial comparison between the photographs Steve McCurry took in December 1984 and those taken of Sharbat Gula in Pakistan early this year.
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A Perfect Match
Photograph by Alexandra Boulat
Iris patterns are even more individual than fingerprints. So the Geographic turned to the inventor of automatic iris recognition, John Daugman, a professor of computer science at England’s University of Cambridge. His biometric technique uses mathematical calculations, and the numbers Daugman got left no question in his mind that the haunted eyes of the young Afghan refugee and the eyes of the adult Sharbat Gula belong to the same person.
Ayan hein unki dastan logo
Ab khuch Aur kahnay ko nahi
Lol Akif
scary...
Pakistan Zindabad!