PHOTO: AFP ......Pakistan-born newspaper vendor Ali Akbar has been homeless, experienced extreme poverty and had been attacked. On Wednesday, President Emmanuel Macron made 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. The French president praised Akbar's "incredible destiny", thanking the septuagenarian for arriving from Pakistan decades ago, selling newspapers for 50 years and carrying France in his heart. The voice of the French press," Macron told Akbar, who was surrounded by his family. Then in Paris he bumped into French humourist Georges Bernier who gave him the chance to sell his satirical newspapers Hara-Kiri and Charlie Hebdo.