Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, a former UN High Commissioner for Refugees and uncle of the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Shiite Muslim Ismaili community, has died aged 70.

His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan, Imam (spiritual leader) of Shia Ismaili Muslims arrived in Damascus yesterday to start an official visit to Syria.

The government in Mwanza Region has requested Aga Khan Foundation in Tanzania, to look into the possibility of constructing a new hospital in Mwanza City to work hand in hand with Sekou Toure Regional Hospital.

The Aga Khan Hospital, Tanzania announced on Tuesday that six of its upcountry Primary Medical Centres in Iringa, Dodoma, Mwanza, Morogoro, Mbeya and the new Mwanjelwa dispensary received ISO 9001:2000 accreditation in October 2004.

Sadruddin Aga Khan, humanitarian
Born: January 1933, in Paris
Died: 12 May, 2003, in Boston, aged 70

PRINCE Sadruddin Aga Khan was a wealthy philanthropist who held a string of top UN humanitarian posts and was the uncle of the spiritual leader of Shia Ismaili Muslims.

IN WHAT IS SOMETHING of a major coup, Toronto has landed an exciting cultural and intellectual investment ? what has been called an educational and cultural complex 'of international pre-eminence' in the Western world.

As politicians feverishly seek out political support from ethnic minorities, it is striking that they fail to seek out these sam

In the chaotic days leading up to the seven-minute nationally televised address that saved his government, at least for now, Paul Martin last week committed $30 million to studying and exporting contemporary Canada's core value, pluralism.

'You can be an educated person in the Judeo-Christian world and know nothing ? I mean, nothing ? about the Islamic world.'

That's the Aga Khan talking.

The soft-spoken 68-year-old spiritual leader of the 15 million Ismaili Muslims is on the phone from his head office in France.

The Ismaili Muslim community plans to build a massive religious and cultural complex in east Toronto in a broader effort to reach out to other Canadians.

Alamshar, High Chaparral among nominees for Canadian InternationalThe Aga Khan?s Irish classic winner Alamshar and reigning champion turf male High Chaparral (Ire) headline a stellar list of nominees for the 66th renewal of the $1.5-million Canadian International (Can-G1) at Woodbine on October 1

The Aga Khan Studs has purchased the Lagardere family?s racing and breeding operations in a private deal that includes the acquisition of two stud farms, 62 broodmares, and 74 horses in training. The stud farms are the Haras d?Ouilly and the Haras du Val Henry, both in Normandy.

The Kyrgyz government will transfer several loss making enterprises to the Prince Aga Khan Fund for rehabilitation under an agreement signed last year that Kyrgyzstan's lower house of parliament has ratified.

Remarking that he disliked racing ? unlike his father, who was famous for his palaces and horses ? Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan chose a career in politics, that was to see him rise almost to the top of the United Nations, and to devote much of his life to global environmental causes.

THE rescue of great houses from decay has been one of the enduring romantic causes of the last half-century.

With about 30 square centimetres of green space per resident, Egypt's capital, Cairo is one of the densest cities on the planet. The modern city centre has all the bustle of a capital city, with rich and poor vying for space.

Forum 18 News Service has found during a visit to Tajikistan's remote and mountainous eastern region that the parts which were governed by compulsory Shariah law during the mid-1990's civil war have now returned to secular Tajik law.

The Swiss Fela company has recently delivered satellite equipment for a monitoring system and for early warnings at Lake Sarez [over 3,000 m up in the Pamirs in eastern Tajikistan] to Tajikistan, Rustam Bobojonov, coordinator of a World Bank project on reducing the risk of Lake Sarez overflow, to

Tajikistan's national airline on Thursday began passenger service to Afghanistan and officials announced plans to build five bridges connecting the countries.

Special equipment for monitoring the situation around Lake Sarez in eastern Tajikistan is now being installed by a World Bank project working on risk mitigation in the area, a step to ensure early warning for the vulnerable population in the region.'This equipment is for monitoring the situation

I was distressed to learn that the Taleban rulers of Afghanistan had ordered the destruction of all statues, including the unique giant fifth century Buddhas located in Bamiyan.

The trip through East and North Africa and India took 15 Texas educators just about everywhere, from schools that looked like average American institutions to urban and rural settings where students did math on the floor using charcoal and six or more children read from one textbook.The month-lon

Two experts from the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) are in [Tajikistan's] Mountainous Badakhshon Autonomous Region to see for themselves the condition of the Pamir-1 hydroelectric power station, particularly its tunnel, Asia-Plus learnt from an official from the organization, Matt

President Kibaki walks with the visiting spiritual leader of the Ismailia community, His Highness the Aga Khan, to his office at State House, Nairobi, where they held talks yesterday. The President is expected to officiate at the State Opening of the Ninth Parliament today. Pic by PPS

La Compagnie aérienne du Mali vient combler un vide aberrant pour un pays qui fut l'un des pionniers en la matière, dans les premières années des indépendancesTous nos compatriotes l'attendent avec impatience car l'enjeu est de fierté nationale.

A sell-out Thoroughbred Breeders' Association Awards' Dinner heard the Aga Khan, the Guest Of Honor, expound on his breeding philosophy and then present the 13 awards for excellence in British Thoroughbred Breeding.The Aga Khan had a very successful 2000, headlined by Sinndar winning the Vodafone

His Highness the Aga Khan is on a two day visit to Norway. The aim is to strengthen the development co-operation between Norway and the Aga Khan Development Network in Pakistan and Afghanistan.The visit is hosted by International Development Minister Hilde Frafjord Johnson.

In a private ceremony at Rideau Hall on June 6, Governor General Adrienne Clarkson installed His Highness the Aga Khan as an honourary Companion of the Order of Canada.

The invitation to the gala event came out of the blue, from a woman I had never met, belonging to a group I had never heard of, part of a religious sect I knew nothing about.Naturally, I accepted.

For the first time in its 36 years, the Smithsonian Folklife Festival will be dedicated to a single subject: an exploration of the ancient Silk Road, the trade route that linked Asia and Europe, and its influence of its cultures on American life today.From June 26 to 30 and July 3 to 7, visitors

In the Muslim world, the Aga Khan is also larger than life. As a direct descendant of the prophet Muhammad, the 67-year-old holds the hereditary title of 49th spiritual leader to an estimated 20 million Shiite Ismaili Muslims in 25 countries.

President Gen Pervez Musharraf on Saturday launched three major projects for Karachi which will be completed within two years at a cost of over Rs443 million.

President Gen Pervez Musharraf said on Friday it was not time for crisis management but conflict resolution for a lasting peace in South Asia.'The time for conflict management is over because another conflict is unthinkable.

The Petronas Towers and a project to revitalise Old Jerusalem were among seven architectural achievements named as winners of the 2004 Aga Khan award for architecture.The prizes were presented by the Aga Khan, spiritual leader of the world's 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, yesterday.

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan doesn’t look much like a fire-breathing ecowarrior. With an Iranian passport, an American education, a Geneva address and a long career as a U.N.

Professor Gilbert Murray OM, was of the founder members of the Oxford Committee for Famine Relief and one of its trustees in 1942. In 1950 he made the first Weeks's Good Cause Appeal for the Committee, which raised jus under $18,000.

My father, the late Aga Khan, was born 100 years ago on 2nd November. Though he died in 1957 at the turn of what Winston Churchill aptly termed "this tormented half century", few today can separate reality from myth when looking back on his long and active life.

The Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) is an international group of institutions, established by the Aga Khan, whose social, economic and cultural activities span South and Central Asia as well as Africa and include Europe and North America (see box).

The Imam of the Shia Ismailia Muslims, His Highness The Aga Khan, arrived here yesterday from Kenya continuing his eight-day visit to East Africa.

His Highness The Aga Khan arrived in Uganda today at the start of an eight-day visit to East Africa.

THE SECURITY guards were so discreet it was impossible to watch anyone else. They stood at the exit to the marquee and whispered into the microphones on the inside of their wrists. Then they slid between the tables and formed a tunnel. The former First Lady walked in front.

Shortly after we checked in at Hotel Tajikistan in Dushanbe, it shook. But this tremor was quickly dissolved into a rush of intellectual as well as emotional vibrations as we embarked on a remarkable journey of discovery.

The Aga Khan Foundation has started its activities in Tajikistan in 1992 by rendering assistance in the country's post-conflict rehabilitation.

Spiritual leader of world's Ismailis Aga Khan IV said on Tuesday after his meeting with Tajikistan's President Emomali Rakhmonov that "now Tajikistan is going through a very important time when the foundation is being laid for its development in future."

Mildred F. Schmertz: You founded the Award twenty years ago, and have sustained it without interruption right up to now. In today's architectural world, new ideas and agendas often have a very short life.

Teaching young people the benefits of volunteerism early in life, at school and at home is a concrete means of combating the seemingly overwhelming social problems the world faces entering the new millenium, an international conference was told yesterday.

His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam (Spiritual Leader) of the Shia Ismaili Muslims today married German-born Princess Dr. Gabriele zu Leiningen.

From television to the Internet, there are many ways to raise awareness about important world issues. But there is hardly any better way than to directly involve people in worthwhile efforts to improve lives abroad. On April 5, the Aga Khan Foundation USA is attempting to do just that.

The Prince Aga Khan arrived in Abidjan yesterday, for an official three-day visit in Ivory Coast. On this occasion, this afternoon, he is to sign a protocol confirming His co-operation with the Ivorian government.

The centre is a complex of buildings and gardens composed of three areas : institutional, community and religious. The centre was designed by the architect Raj Rewal in co-operation with the Portuguese architect Frederico Valsassina.