Following the court's verdict, Afghan ambassador Omar Zakhilwal said:“With utmost delight,
I announce that Sharbat Gula is now free from the legal troubles
she endured over the past couple of weeks.
Northrup pieced together the situation in which McCurry photographed Sharbat Gula, and offers some startling revelations that should perhaps
have been obvious to National Geographic‘s editors, and to the rest of us.