New Delhi: The internet is singing praises to a Pakistani labourer today who won hearts by his display honesty, when he returned a pair of gold earrings to the family who lost it many years ago. The story of the labourer’s sheer truthfulness came to light when a user shared it on Twitter and it soon went viral, melting hearts of several users across the border as well.


A twitter user, whose family found their long-lost golden earrings courtesy the labourer, shared the picture of the labourer online. He wrote that the man working on an under construction plot adjacent to his home walked up to his doors to ask if their family had ever lost something of gold. “Today our door was knocked. My brother went out and this labour asked if we had lost something of gold ever?” When his brother who opened the door told the labourer that his family lost a pair of gold earrings, but back in the year 2015,  the man pulled it out of his pocket and handed him their lost earring.

Replying to a comment, the user further said that he wanted to reward to the man but he refused the money saying he would wait for ‘God’s reward’.

The story earning admiration and praises from a wide section of netizens, also caught attention of some known personalities.

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