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Received the Medaille d'Argent of the Academie d'Architecture de France

Aga Khan University signed an agreement with Sudbury Memorial Hospital, Sudbury, Ontario, that will see Sudbury's medical staff helping to train their counterparts in Karachi, Pakistan.

Under the title A portrait of world powers, in a study of the 65 leaders who shape and rule the world, Vanity Fair writes 'He is a horse breeder, newspaper proprietor, yatchsman, developer, financier, and a philanthropist of unparallel scope'.

The Cantonal authorities of Geneva hosted a lunch in honour of Hazar Imam to mark the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the Aga Khan Foundation. Presenting Hazar Imam with a book of engravings depicting Geneva's rich past, the President of the State Council, Jean-Phillipe Maitre, recalled the Aga Khan family's long and friendly relationship with the city. here]

Doubles the AKF Endowments.

The Aga Khan Unit for Housing and Urbanisation was established at Harvard's Graduate School of Design with a gift of U.S. $530,000.00 from Mowlana Hazar Imam to complement the work of the Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture at Harvard. This Unit is an integral part of Harvard and the M.I.T.

Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development through Filtisac, an AKFED sponsorship, came to an agreement for the public flotation of its shareholding with the Government of the Ivory Coast.

Address at the Ahmedabad luncheon by the Aga Khan Development Network (A.K.D.N.) of institutions. In His address, Hazar Imam said: 'Substantial growth must be rooted in policies that preserve the rural environment, enable rural communities to live in harmony with their surroundings and slow down the process of urbanization.' (click here)

2012, December 10: Paris, France - President Asif Ali Zardari and Prince Karim Agha Khan shaking hands before their meeting at Hotel Plaza Athenee. Prince Karim Agha Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili community, today called on President Asif Ali Zardari here at Hotel Plaza Athenee. He congratulated the President and the Government of Pakistan on organizing, along with UNESCO, a high level event for the promotion of education in Pakistan.

I would wish to begin my closing remarks by first of all expressing my sincere thanks and deep feeling of gratitude on behalf of everyone connected to the Aga Khan Award for Architecture and from myself to the President of the Republic of Syria and to the Prime Minister and his Government for the most generous, thoughtful and constructive way in which they have enabled the Aga Khan Award for Architecture to hold its prize-giving ceremony and related events here in Aleppo.

Arrived in Bombay (Mumbay) at Santacruz airport, now known as Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj International Airport for the next day TakhtNashini Ceremony.

Mediating between East and West, and bringing an environmental conscience to the affairs of the UN