article_snippet.sent: Gulnaz's plight -- like so much in beleaguered Afghanistan -- disappeared from the world's gaze once Gulnaz was pardoned and released courtesy of a presidential pardon.
article_snippet.sent: Instead of a new start, what followed for Gulnaz was a quiet, Afghan solution to the "problem" -- a telling sign of where women's rights stand in Afghanistan despite the billions that have poured into Afghanistan from the U.S. government and Afghanistan NATO allies during more than a decade of war.
article_snippet.sent: NATO found Gulnaz in Gulnaz family home.
article_snippet.sent: Asadullah agreed to let NATO speak with Asadullah and Gulnaz because, it seemed, Gulnaz wanted to show NATO that things were now settled, that under Afghanistan's version of social morality Gulnaz had done the right thing.
article_snippet.sent: Thousands sign petition for Gulaz release .
article_snippet.sent: Gulnaz remains subdued throughout NATO meeting and does not once look I hadn't married her, (but) husband in the eye.
article_snippet.sent: A portrait of Gulnaz's liberator in 2011, the then-president Hamid Karzai, hangs on the wall.
article_snippet.sent: But at the same time, other activists were trying to assist Gulnaz with an asylum bid abroad.
highlights_snippet.sent: Gulnaz case gained international attention; prompted a presidential pardon .
  