November 9, 2016 12:31 PM

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Pakistan deports National Geographic afghan girl

Pakistan has deported an Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover to her war-torn homeland following a brief period of detention for using fraudulent identity papers. Asmatullah Wazir, an administration official in the border town of Torkham has said, Sharbat Gula accompanied by her four children crossed the Afghanistan border today.<br/><br/>A special anti-corruption and immigration court had ordered deportation of Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed 'Afghan Girl' whose 1985 photo in National Geographic magazine became a symbol of her country's wars, after finding her guilty of illegally obtaining a Computerised National Identity Card. <br/><br/>Last month UNHCR said more than 350,000 Afghan refugees documented and undocumented had returned from Pakistan so far in 2016 and expects a further 450,000 to do so by the year's end.

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