Sharbat Gula was arrested by the FIA from the Nothia area for illegally possessing a Pakistani ID card.
Three National Database and Registration Authority (NADRA) officials were also suspended for allegedly issuing her the ID card illegally.
Sharbat Gula, now in her 40s, was being investigated for the past few years by the Pakistani authorities who had discovered she was living in the country with fraudulent identity documents.
Her portrait 'Afghan Girl' appeared on the June 1985 cover of the National Geographic magazine and is recognized as 'its most recognized cover'. Her intense stare at the camera and expressionless face likened her to the famous 'Mona Lisa' painting. Sharbat who was pictured outside a refugee camp became a symbol of the human cost of the Soviet War.
Steve McCurry her photographer in the 1990s began a search for her. After several unsuccessful attempts he found her in Afghanistan and confirmed her identity using iris recognition. She had never seen her picture; she first saw it in 2002.
