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Monday, 2017, December 18Aga Khan inaugurates state-of-the-art healthcare education centre in Karachi
Professor Saulat Fatmi shares how a low-cost innovation introduced by the Aga Khan University’s faculty is helping students lear
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akdn.org

Karachi, Pakistan, 15 December 2017 - The Aga Khan University’s Centre for Innovation in Medical Education (CIME), a state-of-the-art facility for technology-based learning for health professionals, was inaugurated today by His Highness the Aga Khan, Chancellor of AKU.

dawn.com
The aim of the centre is to transform education of health professionals through the use of simulation and virtual reality technology to develop knowledge and skills, a statement quoted the CIME director Dr Charles Docherty as saying.
Wednesday, 2013, December 18H.H. The Aga Khan to preside over AKU's 30th Convocation 2013-12-18
Finance Minister Senator Mohammad Ishaq Dar called on Prince Karim Aga Khan

2013, December 9: Karachi, Pakistan - This year’s AKU Convocation in Karachi celebrates the 30th graduating class of the School of Nursing and Midwifery, the 25th graduating class of the Medical College, and the 20th anniversary of the start of the Institute for Educational Development. In addition to the Convocation ceremony and the annual Awards Night ceremony, special events are being organized that include an alumni reunion. To mark these milestones AKU Chancellor is expected to preside at the 2013 Convocation in Karachi.
Thursday, 2003, December 18AGA KHAN'S GIFT IN GOOD KERRY HANDS - 2003-12-18

The Aga Khan has been a great lover of Irish racing all through his life. He showed that love is no uncertain fashion with his amazing multimillion euro gift to Irish racing this month. He bought a hotel at the back of the present Curragh stands for an estimated 15 to 20 million euro and presented the whole area occupied by that hotel to the Irish Turf Club, the owners of the Curragh racecourse. This purchase enables Horse Racing Ireland to make the Curragh one of the real gems of the sport in the world.
Thursday, 2003, December 18Aga Khan's gift is in good Kerry hands - AGA KHAN'S GIFT IN GOOD KERRY HANDS - 2003-12-18
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archives.tcm.ie/thekingdom/2003/12/18/story11795.asp

THE Aga Khan has been a great lover of Irish racing all through his life. He showed that love is no uncertain fashion with his amazing multimillion euro gift to Irish racing this month.
He bought a hotel at the back of the present Curragh stands for an estimated 15 to 20 million euro and presented the whole area occupied by that hotel to the Irish Turf Club, the owners of the Curragh racecourse. This purchase enables Horse Racing Ireland to make the Curragh one of the real gems of the sport in the world.
Wednesday, 1996, December 18Speech by His Highness The Aga Khan at the foundation ceremony of the first purpose built Jamatkhana in Lisbon 1996-12-18
Hazar Imam laying the foundation stone of Lisbon Jamatkhana with the President of Portugal
Source: 
ismaili.net

Foundation Stone-Laying Ceremony of the Centro Ismaili Lisbon, Portugal
Thursday, December 18th, 1996

Your Excellency, Mr President of the Republic
Your Excellency, the Representative of the President of Parliament
Your Excellency, the Representative of His Excellency the Prime Minister
Your Worship, the Mayor of the City of Lisbon
Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests.

We are all, Mr President, deeply honoured by your presence here today at an occasion that is as significant as it is historic for the Ismaili Muslims worldwide and for myself.
Wednesday, 1996, December 18Event - 1996-12-18

Dedicated to the preservation of spiritual values, the promotion of social development, and the enhancement of intellectual discovery, the Centro Ismaili will seek to contribute to the enjoyment, by citizens of Lisbon and visitors alike, of spaces and buildings whose inspiration will aim to empathise as well as expand our cultural horizons.' Said The Aga Khan in His speech at the Foundation Stone-Laying Ceremony of the Centro Ismaili Lisbon.
Wednesday, 1996, December 18Event - 1996-12-18
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Mowlana Hazar Imam attended the foundation ceremony of the first purpose built Jamatkhana in Lisbon.

SPEECH BY PRINCE KARIM AGA KHAN

Foundation Stone-Laying Ceremony of the Centro Ismaili Lisbon, Portugal
Thursday, December 18th, 1996

Your Excellency, Mr President of the Republic
Your Excellency, the Representative of the President of Parliament
Your Excellency, the Representative of His Excellency the Prime Minister
Your Worship, the Mayor of the City of Lisbon
Your Excellencies, Distinguished Guests.

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1998-07-11 Portugal
Monday, 1989, December 18 U.N. - AFGHAN RELIEF-1989-12-18
Source: 
New York Times

Hoping to stave off the malnutrition afflicting thousands of children in Afghanistan, the United Nations is struggling to bring food and medicine to the country before the worst of the winter snow sets in.


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