Afghan girl’s arrest


  • World
  • Sunday, 30 Oct 2016

KARACHI: Life for women refugees is a particular kind of hell.

When Steve McCurry took that iconic photograph of the ‘Afghan girl’ back in 1985, he never imagined that the girl with the haunting green eyes would become a worldwide symbol of the disruption and displacement that millions of refugees suffered in the aftermath of the Soviet-Afghan war.

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