He is almost too perfect to be true.
He is being called Pakistan's "nuclear weapon". He is an "internet sensation". There are already think pieces about him.
He is Arshad Khan, a tea seller in Islamabad whose picture went viral soon after a blogger uploaded it to Instagram. His blue-eyed good looks immediately had the masses swooning, and #chaiwala even became the top trend in Pakistan twitter by the end of Tuesday.
He's landed his first modelling job and he's also open to acting in all kinds of films, he says in the interview above. Oh yes, he's been selling tea for the last three months.
Social media had a field day, naturally. Given the current relationship between India and Pakistan, there was more than one mention of surgical strikes.
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