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There are days when you just want to board a plane and leave. And there are days when the plane asks you for a driving license first. That was the unfiltered moment the internet stopped scrolling — it happened to a man now widely known as Tufail, who was trending under the hashtag #TufailAirportGate after a surreal airport encounter over a driving license check.

In the viral video that lit up X, Instagram and TikTok, Interior Minister Mohsin Naqvi himself is seen at an airport window asking a traveler — seemingly Tufail — for his driving license at the immigration counter. The scene feels less like a security check and more like a last-second school roll call that accidentally got broadcast to millions. Instagram

The man didn’t just miss a piece of plastic; his flight took off without him. Passengers board, cabins fill, engines hum — but Tufail is left with nothing but a ticket, a sparkly airport floor, and a clip that went viral faster than any of us could say boarding pass. People laughed, people pondered what kind of universe demands your driving license before you fly, and by evening the name “Tufail” lit up timelines everywhere.

What made the moment stick — beyond the comedic absurdity — was the presence of Mohsin Naqvi himself. In the clip, the minister doesn’t stand on protocol alone — he stands on camera, pointing at the rule, pointing at the man, like we’re all in an airport sitcom without a laugh track. Instagram

Some voices on X praised the gentleman’s calm in the middle of chaos, others turned the whole thing into memes and memes of memes. What started as a routine document check became an unexpected cultural snapshot: the night a man’s driving license was more powerful than his boarding pass.