Seventeen years ago, an Afghan girl orphaned and living in a refugee camp appeared on the cover of National Geographic, her eyes big and green, a red scarf draped over her hair. Now, the magazine says it has tracked her down - a wife and mother living in a remote part of Afghanistan - and will once again feature her in its April issue focusing on the plight of refugees.
The girl, whose parents had been killed by bombing during the Soviet war in Afghanistan, was photographed in 1984 at the Nasir Bagh refugee camp in Pakistan by Steve McCurry.
She was about 13 at the time, said a National Geographic spokeswoman, Ellen Siskind.
Sharbat Gula married shortly after the first picture was taken and has had four girls, one of whom died as an infant. A Pashtun, she had never seen her famous photo, the magazine said.