Pakistan court has rejected a bail applied from National Geographic’s famed green-eyed Afghan Girl Sharbat Gulla, who was arrested by the police a week ago over allegedly forged ID papers. A Pakistani prosecutor says that the court has dismissed the bail plea from the renowned channel.
Gulla denied to have forge ID’s
Although Sharbat Gulla had denied the charges for having forge ID’s saying she didn’t fraudulently obtain Pakistani nationality, but the court dismissed the Plea, citing lack of evidence to prove Pakistani citizenship, said Prosecutor Mohsin Dawar.
A fame girl was hidden when Pakistan accused her for buying fake proofs
Gulla is a girl who gained worldwide fame in 1984 as an Afghan refugee after war photographer Steve McCurry’s photograph of her, having piercing green eyes, was published on the cover page of Nationals Geographic.
Interestingly, McCurry found her again in Afghanistan in 2002. She came in Pakistan in 2014 but went into hiding when authorities accused her of buying a fake Pakistani ID Proof.
On the other hand, Gulla’s arrest comes among new Pakistani pressure to send 2.5million Afghan refugees to their homeland, despite offensives by Taliban revolutionaries that kill and injure thousand of each year.
Her brother-in-law Shahshad Khan also urged police when she was arrested that she is not a refugee as Sharbat Gulla has legal residenceship because she was married to his brother, Rahmat Khan who was born in Pakistan and died five years ago.
