Sharbat Gula, whose portrait was taken by Steve McCurry in a refugee camp in Peshawar Pakistan.As for Ms Sharbat Gula herself, upon seing every one says..what eyes! The beauty of her, is her, dusty tanned looking face, not groomed, showing the stories of her life, the hardship endured, at sucha young age, living through times when her parents were killed in an invasion, and then leaving her homeland crossing into Pukhtunkhwa, just days before the picture was shot.
During American war on Afganistan...in the shade of an open tent flap, photographer Steve McCurry immortalized the haunted eyes of a 12-year-old refugee in a camp on the Afghanistan-Pakistan border.The girl piercing green eyes, shocked with hints of blue and fear, gave away her story. Soviet helicopters destroyed her village and family, forcing her to make a two-week trek out of the perilous mountains of Afghanistan.
Source: National Geographic
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