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National Geographic 'Afghan Girl' arrested in Pakistan living under false papers This article is more than 4 years old Sharbat Gula, depicted on the magazine’s cover in 1984, could face 14 years in prison and a $5,000 fine if convicted An Afghan woman who once appeared on the cover of National Geographic as a green-eyed 12-year-old girl has been arrested for living illegally in Pakistan under false papers. An Afghan woman made famous by a 1985 National Geographic cover has spoken exclusively to the BBC of her hope for a new beginning, after being deported from Pakistan. In 2016 it made international news again. They detained her at the border leaving the country with fake Pakistani documents. She was held in jail for 15 days and then deported back to Afghanistan. In prison she contracted hepatitis C, a disease that already caused the death of her daughter and her husband years before. Sharbat Gula now lives with her five-year-old son and three daughters in Kabul, where she says she wants to live a normal life after years of tragedy and hardship. Her portrait as a 10-year-old became an iconic image of Afghan refugees fleeing war. ‘Afghan Girl’ at a Steve McCurry exhibition in the Old Town Hall, Prague. Credit: elPadawan/Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0