Compassionate Pakistani shopkeeper’s generosity makes him a US celebrity

June 3: A Pakistani Shopkeeper becomes a celebrity after helping a would-be robber with money and bread. His story was aired on New York’s TV stations on Tuesday night.

It was a normal day when a Pakistani shopkeeper ''Mohammad Sohail'' in New York as usual at his store waiting for customers when a white guy entered in his store with a baseball bat and a knife not to buy anything but to rob the store.

According to Sohail the robber screamed ''“He said, ‘Hurry up and give me the money, give me the money!’ and I said, ‘Hold on’,” Sohail recalled in a phone interview with CNN.''

Sohail told CNN that he is always equipped with shotgun and while a would be robber was showing me the bat I showed him my shotgun and asked him to ''Get down on his knees''

“He’s crying like a baby,” Sohail said. “He says, ‘don’t call police, don’t shoot me, I have no money, I have no food in my house’.”

Man made a promise that he will never rob anyone again and when he agreed, ''Sohail gave him $40 and a loaf of bread''

“When he got $40, he’s very impressed, he says, ‘I want to be a Muslim just like you’,” Sohail said, adding he had the would-be criminal recite an Islamic oath.

“I said ‘Congratulations''. You are now a Muslim and your name is ''Nawaz SharifNawaz Sharif Zardari'

When Sohail was asked why he has given the same name as two of the famous political leaders in Pakistan? He laughed and said ''he had been watching a South Asian news channel moments before the confrontation. ''