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29 March 2024

Pakistani cabbie returns Dh100k; honoured

Javed Jalil Khattak (left), Consul General of Pakistan in Dubai, and Muhammad Abdul Wahid Khan, Press Counsellor at Dubai Consulate, honour taxi driver Mubein Al Haq on Monday. (Supplied)

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Honesty is the best policy! This matters most when a poor man earning a few thousand bucks returns a bag full of money to its original owner.

In a second such incident in the UAE, a Pakistani taxi driver handed over to police a bag containing more than Dh100,000 in cash, which forgotten by a passenger in the taxi.

Mubein Al Haq Lal Haleem, a father of six, was honoured by Javed Jalil Khattak, Consul General of Pakistan in Dubai, on Monday, December 29, 2014.

A ceremony was held at Consulate General of Pakistan, Dubai, to honour the ‘hero of the Pakistani community’ with a certificate for his honesty.

In a similar incident earlier this week, a 20-year-old Pakistani Shahan Sardar, a cleaner with a Dubai-based car rental company, was honoured for his honesty when he returned a bag with Dh25,000 in cash to its rightful owner.