obtaining CNIC in 2014. Her two sons, Wali and Rauf, also have Pakistani CNICs.
The authorities are verifying to find if Sharbat Bibi and Sharbat Gula are the same woman as the latter was said to be mother of three daughters while the former has two sons.There is a slight difference in age too as the former is said to be 46-year old while Sharbat Gula is believed to be 43.
The name of the spouse in both the cases is Rahmat Gul while both the women are having the same eyes that dominate the face.
Sharbat Gula was mentioned as the ‘Afghan Girl’ and the ‘Mona Lisa’ of the Afghan war, by the National Geographic Magazine and other top journals of the world in the last few decades.
Sharbat Gula’s piercing green eyes were dominant in her picture taken by National Geographic photographer Steve McCurry in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in 1984.
The picture appeared on the cover of the magazine’s June 1985 issue.Her portrait as a young girl, clad in red scarf, got global popularity. She was called the ‘Afghan Girl’ and ‘Mona Lisa’ of the Afghan war since many didn’t know her real name for years.
Steve McCurry searched for Sharbat Gula for several years but only found her in 2002 as a grown up woman clad in shuttlecock burqa. Her picture in a blue burqa while holding her 18-year old picture also got global popularity.
Pakistan has launched a crackdown against illegal Afghans all over Khyber Pakhtunkhwa after the attack on the Army Public School last year.According to the officials only those Afghans who do not posses any refugee card or travel document are being deported.
The federal and Khyber Pakht unkhwa governments have ordered the deportation of all the illegal Afghan refugees and investigation into the cases of those who have fraudulently made Pakistani CNICs by submitting false information.The police, however, have been directed not to harm those who possess refugee cards issued by the UNHCR as they are entitled to stay in Pakistan till December 2015.