Image copyright Javeria Ali Image caption Arshad Khan, 18, is a tea seller at Islamabad's Sunday Bazaar 
 
 A handsome "chai wala" (tea seller) in Pakistan has seen his life change overnight after a picture of him at work swept the internet. 
 
 Arshad Khan, 18, was photographed pouring tea at Islamabad's Sunday Bazaar by photographer Javeria Ali. 
 
 Thousands of lovestruck Twitter users quickly shared the picture, swooning over his piercing eyes, and #ChaiWala began trending across social media. 
 
 Days later, Mr Khan shot his first modelling campaign. 
 
 Fitin.pk, an online shopping site based in Islamabad, rushed to sign Mr Khan up and is already using pictures of him modelling menswear. 
 
 A message on its website and Facebook page reads: "Chai wala is not more chai wala now he is fashion wala!" 
 
 Image copyright Fitin.pk Image caption Online shopping site Fitin.pk rushed to sign Mr Khan up as a model 
 
 In an interview with local TV news, Mr Khan said his family had lived in Islamabad for the last 25 years and that he joined the tea stall a few months ago. He said he hadn't heard of the social media platforms Instagram or Twitter. 
 
 Pakistan's Express Tribune reportedly tracked the tea seller-turned celebrity down at his usual workplace. Asked if he was aware of his global fame, Mr Khan replied humbly: "Yes, I am aware of my newly found fame and I am incredibly happy. My friends have been showing me pictures since this morning." 
 
 Image copyright Javeria Ali Image caption Photographer Javeria "Jiah" Ali pictured with chai wala-turned model Arshad Khan 
 
 One Indian Twitter user, @Shruti_writes, referenced India-Pakistan tensions by calling for peace for the teenager's sake, writing: "Pakistan has #ChaiWala looking like this. Please dont bomb it, thanks" [Sic]. 
 
 Photographer Ms Ali, who posted the fateful picture on 14 October, anticipated the global response, writing simply: "Hot-tea" and signing off with a wink. 
 
 She told the BBC: "I was very surprised when it got famous - to me it was a normal casual post!" 
 
 Ms Ali, a recent media graduate who photographs weddings and events in Islamabad, said she was delighted for Mr Khan. 
 
 "I'm very happy for him, he deserves this. He's a really nice kid. I just hope he can handle the fame and not be exploited by greedy people." 

 The online shoppi­ng store in Islama­bad posted severa­l pictur­es of the chaiwa­la 
 
 The blue-eyed chai wala who had set the Internet’s heart racing has landed a modeling contract. 
 
 “Arshad chai wala will be working for fitin as a model,” an online shopping store in Islamabad, Fitin.pk, posted on their Facebook page. 
 
 This chai wala is brewing more than a cup of tea 
 
 The online shopping store in Islamabad posted several pictures of the chaiwala, identified as Arshad, in fashionable attire on Facebook. 
 
 The company announced in its post that Arshad will be working as a model for its ‘full version launch’. The online store in a cheeky tag line stated: “Chai wala is no more chai wala, now he is fashion wala!” 
 
 If the description in the Twitter bio is to believed, Arshad Khan, is now active on social media. “This page is managed by team Arshad Khan all tweets posts here are signed by him. Keep in touch with us on hashtags,” the account description reads. 
 
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 I never thought I will be that famous. #Arshad — Arshad Khan (@Arshaadkhan01) October 18, 2016 
 
 So you can now keep tabs on him. 
 
 The chai wala shot to fame when an Instagram user @jiah_ali posted a picture of him while he was brewing tea in Islamabad’s Sunday Bazaar. Tweets soon surfaced acknowledging his exceptionally good looks and sharp features. The picture instantly became a hit with women drooling over the man. 
 
 Express News embarked to find out more about Arshad and to everyone’s joy, managed to find him at his usual spot. When asked if he has an idea of how famous he is now, Arshad humbly replied, “Yes, I am aware of my newly found fame and I am incredibly happy. My friends have been showing me pictures since this morning.” 
 
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 When asked what star he resembles, Arshad adorably responded, “Shah Rukh Khan” to the chuckles of the crowd gathered around him. 
 
 Khan shared that he has been working at the tea stall for the past three months. He also said, “I have been told I have beautiful eyes by many girls but nothing ever happened. Since my picture has gone viral, I realise that I am famous now.” 
 
 He doesn’t remember who took his picture though but seems quite elated that he’s getting so much attention. Arshad shares he has 17 siblings and is an avid fan of Hollywood movies and wouldn’t mind working for one. 
 
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– In what should give hope to people toiling away at menial jobs everywhere (provided, of course, that they're extremely good looking), an 18-year-old Pakistani tea seller is the toast of the internet, a professional fashion model, and a Hollywood hopeful less than a week after someone put his photo online. The BBC reports wedding and event photographer Javeria Ali snapped some pics of Arshad Khan as he worked a tea stand in Islamabad. Last Friday, she posted one on Instagram with the winking caption "Hot-tea." Then the internet did its thing. By Monday, #ChaiWala (it means "tea seller") was the top trending topic on Pakistani Twitter, according to Quartz. The Express Tribune says the picture of Khan "gave all the ladies and men something to talk about." Since then, Khan—who hadn't even heard of Twitter or Instagram—says dozens of women have visited him at his tea stand. "I am incredibly happy," he told a local TV station. He even has a new gig after a local online shopping site called Fitin hired him as a model. Now Khan is setting his sights on possibly getting into Hollywood. "I'm very happy for him," Ali tells the BBC. "He deserves this. He's a really nice kid." But has fame already stripped away what made Khan crush-worthy? Quartz notes he's now "clean-shaven, wearing a dapper two-piece suit, with hair gelled, a far cry from the rugged face, blue kameez, and unkempt mane that so enamored him to his online oglers." (He's an 18-year-old Mormon. He's also a supermodel.)