Question : Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan woman immortalised decades ago on a National Geographic cover, has recently(November 2021) been evacuated to which country ?
a. Italy
b. France
c. UK
d. USA
Ans.a
Related facts —
- Sharbat Gula, the green-eyed Afghan woman immortalised decades ago on a National Geographic cover, has recently(November 2021) been evacuated to Italy.
- She has arrived in Rome.
- Italian authorities said it had responded to pleas from non-profit organisations working in Afghanistan to help her leave the Taliban-controlled country, “organising for her to travel to Italy as part of the wider evacuation programme in place for Afghan citizens and the government’s plan for their reception and integration”.
- It is notable that Italy was one of five countries most involved with NATO’s US-led mission in Afghanistan along with Germany, Britain and Turkey.
- Gula became arguably Afghanistan’s most famous refugee after US photographer Steve McCurry captured her portrait in a Pakistan camp in the 1980s and it was published on the front cover of the National Geographic magazine.
By — Pankaj Pandey