From a Nat Geo cover to a mugshot: The sad story of the green-eyed ‘Afghan Girl’

Sharbat Gula's haunting green eyes were immortalized on the cover of National Geographic in 1985. You might have seen her while sitting at a dentist's office, or while bending over to pick up your mail, but whenever it was, it was hard to pull your eyes away. Her penetrating stare seemed to encompass the pain of Afghanistan's […]

Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2016/10/26/from-a-nat-geo-cover-to-a-mugshot-the-sad-story-of-the-green-eyed-afghan-girl/