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AGA KHAN TO HELP PAMIR REGIONS - 2000-09-02
Posted July 10th, 2007 by heritage
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Saturday, 2000, September 2Location:
The Times of Central Asia: 'But what perhaps really mattered was the all-out war on the scourge of narcotics declared by Prince Aga Khan, the spiritual leader and the only mainstay of the Pamirians. He announced that withdrawal from drug trafficking was the essential condition for the resumption of the food supplies he had provided for the locals for years regardless of their nationality or religion.'
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