Afghan Consul General in Peshawar Abdul Waheed Poyan (R) talks with Afghan woman Sharbat Gula, known internationally as the 'Afghan Girl' who appeared on the cover of a 1985 edition of National Geographic magazine, during his visit to a hospital in Peshawar on November 2, 2016. A Pakistani court refused bail November 2 to an Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover after she was arrested in Pakistan and accused of being one of thousands of refugees using fake ID cards. / AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED
Afghan Consul General in Peshawar Abdul Waheed Poyan (R) talks with Afghan woman Sharbat Gula, known internationally as the 'Afghan Girl' who appeared on the cover of a 1985 edition of National Geographic magazine, during his visit to a hospital in Peshawar on November 2, 2016.
A Pakistani court refused bail November 2 to an Afghan woman immortalised on a National Geographic cover after she was arrested in Pakistan and accused of being one of thousands of refugees using fake ID cards. / AFP PHOTO / A MAJEED

PESHAWAR, Pakistan: An Afghan woman immortalized on a National Geographic cover will be sent back to the war-torn homeland she first fled decades ago, after a Pakistani court ordered Friday that she be deported.

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