Blue-eyed Pakistani tea-seller becomes social media sensation in Pakistan and India

A photo of tea seller Arshad Khan's piercing gaze was uploaded on Instagram and quickly went viral, earning him many new fans.PHOTO: INSTAGRAM

ISLAMABAD: A young Pakistani tea-seller whose intense blue eyes made Internet users in Pakistan and India swoon after a picture of him was posted by a local photographer on Instagram has now bagged himself a modelling contract.

Arshad Khan, the 18-year-old teenage tea vendor who hails from the Pakistani city of Kohat and has never been to school, found himself becoming a social media heart-throb when he caught the eye of a local photographer while making tea in the Sunday Bazaar in the capital Islamabad.