‘I am a knight’: Pakistan-origin newspaper vendor gets top French award

0 January 29, 2026 11:13

Ali Akbar has been homeless, experienced extreme poverty and had been attacked.

On Wednesday, President Emmanuel Macron made Pakistan-born Akbar, believed to be the last newspaper hawker in Paris, a knight in the national order of merit in recognition of his service to France.

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