SAHIWAL:
At a busy market in Pakistan’s japanese Punjab province, a meals vendor who locals say bears an uncanny resemblance to U.S. President-elect Donald Trump will get extra enterprise — and a focus — than others.
“We really feel as if Trump got here right here to promote kheer (pudding),” mentioned Mohammad Yaseen, a neighborhood resident who prefers to purchase the dessert from Saleem Bagga, the lookalike vendor who additionally sings to draw prospects.
“When he sings to promote kheer, we go to him,” mentioned Yaseen. Bagga, 53, pushes his colourful picket cart down the street delivering milk pudding, a black jacket over his beige shalwar kameez tunic to guard him from the winter chill.
A crowd gathers as Bagga, who sports activities a particular blond topknot due to his albinism, sings the lyrics of a Punjabi track: “Now you come to me, my love, do not delay, my eyes are uninterested in ready. “
“His kheer is basically scrumptious… we talked to him and took selfies with him and informed our associates that we took these photographs with Trump,” Ashraf mentioned.
Bagga is unfazed by the inflow of consideration and the cameras that observe him all through the market and even into his house neighborhood in Sahiwal district.
“My face resembles Donald Trump, that’s why individuals take selfies with me… I really feel actually good,” he mentioned, earlier than extending the invitation.
“Donald Trump sahib (sir), you gained the election, now go to right here and eat my kheer, you’ll actually prefer it,” he mentioned. Reuters
