Afghan girl kos now

I love travelling to Afghanistan: friends and colleagues stare at me with puzzled, frightened looks. For Afghanistan is invariably associated with the Taliban, poppy fields, Sharia and women covered in blue chadri burqa. The azure blue chadri has been displayed as the epitome of women's subordination to men and their Afghanistan has the highest prevalence of cutaneous leishmaniasis worldwide with approximately 13 million people at risk of the disease.

All rights reserved. Sharbat Gula, who became an instant icon when she peered out from the June cover of National Geographic magazine as a year-old-refugee, is now the owner of a 3,square-foot residence decorated to her liking in the capital of her native Afghanistan. Sharbat Gula, known to much of the world simply as the "Afghan girl," received the keys to the home late last month in a ceremony led by Afghan government officials. It comes after three decades as a refugee in Pakistan and a tumultous last year back in Afghanistan. Orphaned at age six during the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan, she had trekked by foot to Pakistan with her siblings and grandmother. Now she has become a symbol of a return to Afghanistan that hundreds of thousands of refugees are undertaking after decades away.

The US and the Taliban have signed a landmark peace agreement after nearly 20 years of war that could result in American troops leaving Afghanistan within 14 months. The deal also paves the way for talks between Afghans to end one of the longest-running conflicts in the world. At a signing ceremony in Doha on Saturday, US secretary of state Mike Pompeo and Taliban deputy leader Mullah Baradar took turns to address a crowd of senior dignitaries.

The image is of an adolescent girl with green eyes in a red headscarf looking intensely at the camera. The identity of the photo's subject was not initially known, but in early , she was identified as Sharbat Gula. She was a Pashtun child living in the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan when she was photographed.