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World Service,3 mins

The Pakistani 'chai wala' who 'nobody referred to by name'

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A tea-seller - or 'chai wala' - has landed a modelling contract since his picture went viral. 18 year-old Arshad Khan was snapped working in a market in the Pakistani city of Islamabad. Maria Amir, a teaching fellow at Lahore University of Management Sciences, told Dan Damon why she found the reaction to the picture to be problematic. (Photo: Arshad Khan. Credit: Javeria Ali)

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