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What organization controls the country's largest cellphone company, is throwing itself into humanitarian development work in some of the poorest provinces in Afghanistan, is building the city's first five-star hotel, is restoring historic landmarks in Kabul - and is dominated by Canadians? The correct response is: The Aga Khan Development Network, the one-of-a-kind Ismaili organization that combines business ventures with aid work throughout Asia and Africa, with considerable support from the 75,000-strong Ismaili community in Canada and the Canadian government, with which it has unusually close ties.