'Afghan Girl': National Geographic star 'should be bailed'
An Afghan woman immortalized on the cover of National Geographic magazine should be granted bail, Pakistan's interior minister says, after she was arrested on fraud charges. BBC reports.
Sharbat Gula, whose haunting green eyes made her famous as a child refugee, is accused of procuring fake ID papers.
"I think I will have to review this case because she is a woman and we should see it from a humanitarian angle," Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan said.
However, he added: "If we withdraw charges against her, deport her, or give her a temporary visa to leave Pakistan, then we will have to take back cases against the officials who issued her fake ID card. They are the real culprits, and I do not want to let them off the hook in any manner."