Sharbat Bibi Controversy: The famous Afghan Girl who got famous after her photo featured on the National Geographic cover got arrested by Pakistan’s Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) in Peshawar on Wednesday.
Sharbat Bibi Controversy
The National Database and Registration Authority had issued three CNICs(Computerized National Identity Card) to Sharbat Bibi and it was in violation of the law. Two other men had been issued fake ID cards who claimed to be her sons. The ID cards have now been recovered from Sharbat Bibi by the FIA.
It was an FIA official who had issued the ID cards to the Afghan Girl who is now working as the Deputy Commissioner of the Customs Agency. To avoid his arrest he took bail-before-arrest.
The reports have said that it was later found out on investigating the matter that the two men whom Sharbat Bibi called her sons were not related to her.
Her photographer that made her famous was taken by McCurry in 1984 at the Refugee Camp in Peshawar and she was then identified as Sharbat Gula. At that time she was 12 years old and later she went out of the sight of media for so many years and later in 2002 she was found again by the photographer.
Her picture was featured on the cover of the National Geographic Magazine. A documentary had also been made on her life and she was called the “Mona Lisa of Afghan war.”
