Source:Afghanland.com: The little girl who was lost to the world but had always lived in Afghanistan, a land and people long forgotten by the world. The Photograph that made photographer Steve McCurry famous and made National Geographic Magazine Popular around the world has an identity.

 Sharbat Gula a mother of 3 children was only 13 when her famous photograph was taken when it seems to be a lifetime ago. USSR was at its might, and forcefully involved in Afghanistan and the Brave Afghans in full resistance. According to Afghanland.com sources, Steve McCurry ventured into the refugee camps near the Afghan border and snapped a shot of an orphan girl who was haunted by years of was and lost of her parents, her face showed horror and her eyes has a story to tell. Her clothes worn out and a scarf that was burned while cooking food over a wood-burning oven, but she was on more publications than a Hollywood celebrity.

When the 1985 issue of National Geographic hit the stands, the world was fascinated with the image of girl and her beautiful eyes. Many had ventured to Afghanistan since then to find the orphan, but their searches lead nowhere.