Top Supermodel behind bars after being arrested at Airport with $500,000 in her hand luggage

A Pakistani supermodel has been charged with money laundering offences after she was caught carrying over half a million dollars in Islamabad airport.

21-year-old Ayyan Ali - who has modeled everything from mobile phones to ice cream - was jailed after a staggering amount of money was discovered in her carry-on bag, the Guardian reports.

She was charged with attempting to illegally transport more than the legal $10,000 cash limit out of the country on March 14 - and has been in a Rawalpindi prison since.

Ali was last seen in public wearing an 'uncharacteristic' black burka outside court as a horde of fellow models gathered nearby.