Children's show gets new puppet

Zari will wear a headscarf on nation's own Sesame Street

There's a new face on Sesame Street - a sassy, fun 6-year-old Afghan puppet girl called Zari, with purple skin, an orange nose and multicolored hair, an infectious giggle and outfits to please Afghanistan's broad kaleidoscope of ethnicities and cultures.

Zari will wear a headscarf with her school uniform, which unlike that for girls across Afghanistan will not be black - Sesame Street characters do not wear black - but pale blue. Otherwise the eternal preteen will be mostly bareheaded.