It is said of the Pashtuns that they are at peace only when at war.I had seen her picture way back, in school. I knew her as The Afghan Girl. I thought she was hauntingly beautiful. And she is. Only, now I know that her beauty haunts because of searing pain that comes with being a refugee.
A shattered and devastated nation finds expression in more than numbers and statistics.
Read how she was lost and found in the debris here.
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This picture is so mazingly haunting, she looks like a post card of Afganishtan...an endless array of lost chances!
absolutely....it is at once terrible and beautiful..
thanks for the link... its touching... and the 2 pictures... say a million wordsss
welcum anytime :)
pain, fear, steel and survival.
Her eyes say it all....Anger, pain, helplessness, aggression, oppression....Everything!
its the eyes which would come back to haunt you...
I did see the photographer on television as he went back to Afghanistan looking for her. And he finally found her. It was a shock for her when she was discovered again.
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2nd tyme im saying welcum in one post :D
The Eyes,omg.Thank you for visiting!
When the picture had first come out, it shook the world. When it came out again years later, it became a collector's item.
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