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Ali Akbar



Meet Ali Akbar, the last newspaper hawker in Paris

  • Akbar left Pakistan for France at the age of 20 and survived in Paris selling newspapers
  • French President Macron has vowed make Akbar a knight in the national order of merit
By AFP ·

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