Pakistani policemen escort Afghan refugee woman Sharbat Gula (C) as she leaves the Lady Reading Hospital where she was treated, in Peshawar on November 9, 2016, before her deportation to Afghanistan.
Peshawar (Pakistan) (AFP) - An Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover was deported by Pakistani officials early Wednesday to her war-torn homeland following a brief period of detention for using fraudulent identity papers.
Sharbat Gula, whose blazing green eyes were captured in an image taken in a Pakistan refugee camp in the 1980s that became the magazine's most famous cover, was discharged from hospital where she was being treated for Hepatitis C and taken to the border overnight, officials said.
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