Madame Mubarak, Your Excellencies, Honourable Ministers, Distinguished Guests

Maulana Kauser Niazi, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen,

It was good of you to invite Me to this occasion not least because, although I enjoy and appreciate most of the art forms, I claim no special expertise in any of them.

Mawlana Hazar Imam and Her Highness Begum Salimah Saheba were felicitated at a join meeting of the Rotary Clubs of Bombay. New Bombay and Thane at Oberoi-Sheraton Hotel on Wednesday, 25th January,1978 when Mawlana Hazar Imam was presented a memento by Rotary International Director Soli Pavri.

Mawlana Hazar Imam and Mrs. Lynda Chalker, Minister for Overseas Development, on Thursday 16th May, 1991 signed an exchange of letters relating to the pledging of UK Pounds 4.7 million, by the British Government, to the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Chitral, Northern Pakistan.

MAWLANA HAZAR IMAM CONFERS DEGREES AT THIRD ANNUAL CONVOCATION OF THE AGA KHAN UNIVERSITY

Mawlana Hazar Imam met with the President of the World Bank, Mr. Lewis Preston, in Washington, D.C. On October 23, 1992. Mawlana Hazar Imam and Mr.

Mawlana Hazar Imam on Monday 10th December, 1990 signed a Protocol of Agreement on behalf of the Aga Khan Trust for Culture with the Governor of Cairo H.E. Mahmoud Sherif for the creation of a public park in one of historic Cairo's last remaining open spaces.

Mawlana Hazar Imam received an honourary degree of Doctor of Literature in Education on Wednesday, October 11, 1989, from the University of London, England.

Mawlana Hazar Imam visited Pakistan from Saturday, March 11 to Tuesday, March 21. He arrived in Islamabad on March 11 where he had meetings with his Excellency President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Her Excellency Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, as well as with other government ministers.

Mawlana Hazar Imam visited Uganda and Kenya for five days in April, and signed accords with the Governments of both countries on behalf of the Aga Khan Development Network.The Accords of Co-operation for Development acknowledge the development network's contribution to development in the region o

Mawlana Hazar Imam was honoured by Italy's President Francesco Cossiga, when he was presented with the country's highest honor, the Cavaliere del Lavoro, at a ceremony in Rome on Wednesday, October 26, 1988.

It is indeed a great honour to welcome so many distinguished Africans and friends of Africa to this conference.

It is with genuine pleasure that I welcome you all to the Ismaili Centre for we meet here this morning to celebrate a partnership - a partnership for people. Just five years ago, the Overseas Development Administration (ODA) and the Aga Khan Foundation began to work together.

It is with great happiness that I send you this message for the Health Seminar which the Aga Khan Central Health Board of Pakistan and UNICEF have organised to Commemorate the International Year of the Child.

It was 12 years ago, Dar es Salaam in October 1957. Prince Karim, His Highness Aga Khan IV was to be installed as successor to his grandfather in the first of a series of elaborate ceremonies to be held that year throughout Africa and Asia.

(L'Expansion, mars 1975)

J'imaginais - comme beaucoup de Français, sans doute - l'Aga Khan tel son grand-père et son père: une personnalité très parisienne, bien rodée aux charmes de la "High Society", logé dans un luxe riant et menant une vie joyeuse et en grande partie oisive.

Just as there is only one pope there is only one Aga Khan.
He is 'Imam' - spiritual leader - to the world's 15 million Ismaili Moslems.

And he is in Toronto.

Karachi, Nov 11: Prince Karim Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the Ismaili community, announced on Monday the establishment of endowment funds for the Aga Khan University Faculty of Health Sciences and the Aga Khan University Hospital.

King Juan Carlos of Spain, in July, presented Mawlana Hazar Imam with the Gold Medal for architecture at a ceremony at the Royal Palace, Madrid.

Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Aiglemont. Thank you for being here. Thank you for participating in this seminar.

I should very much like to express, on behalf of the Aga Khan Award for Architecture, as well as all of the participants in this seminar and myself personally, our warmest thanks to the President of the Republic of Senegal, Mr. Abdou Diouf, who opened our debates and to Mr.

I want to begin by saying, quite simply, how delighted we are to be in China. China is a nation we constantly read about and discuss. But for most of us, myself included, it is the first time we have actually seen and visited this fascinating country.

I would like to begin by expressing my appreciation of the opportunity you have given me today to speak in this important city of Europe.

I would like to begin by thanking His Majesty King Hussein for honouring us by opening our seminar. His participation clearly illustrates Jordan's concern for the evolution of Islamic architecture.

Photo: His Highness the Aga Khan applauding the architect Diébédo Francis Kéré, with city planner Amanda M. Burden (centre) and humanities scholar Homi K. Bhabha (right). AKDN / Farhez Rayani

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In 1980, the first Aga Khan Award for Architecture will be presented. Prior to that, five seminars are to be held to discuss various criteria and categories for the Award, as well as some of the other mundane aspects of its organization.

In a recent interview in New York, the Aga Khan answered question from LIFE reporter Margot Dougherty and Managing Editor Richard B. Stolley.

In February, Prince Amyn visited Lisbon, Portugal, in connection with important developments that will affect the future activities of the Aga Khan Development Net-work (AKDN) and of the jamat in Portugal.

In June 1986, the Aga Khan Foundation's Board approved a three-year project to improve early childhood educational opportunities for children of traditional Muslim communities in Mombasa, Kenya.

In June 1994 the Honourable Andre Ouellet, Minister of Foreign Affairs, approved a $25 million contribution to AKFC over an eight year period for the Pakistan Social Institutions' Development Program (SIDP). AKFC will contribute financially as well as in kind to this program.

In recent guidance to the jamat, Mawlana Hazar Imam has referred to various developments that have taken place in the world over the last four decades.

In selecting the title of this address, I had in mind above all, the need for greater efficiency in professional management.

In the remote reaches of Pakistan's Himalayas, the one-time independent principality of Hunza was recently reacquainted with the ostentatious luxury of its past: Prince Karim Aga Khan, Hunza's Imam and patron, had come to inaugurate Baltit Fort, an architectural masterpiece, symbolising the area'

In the Saligrah issue, Africa Ismaili reported the celebration of IPS Kenya's Silver Jubilee. This Company, together with its' sister Companies in Tanzania, Uganda, Zaire and Switzerland, was incorporated on March 1, 1963.

In the visitors book in the office of the Aga Khan Rural Support Program in Gilgit, the following inscription can be found:
20th November, 1987

Inside the clinic it's 90 F. Wrapped in a patterned shawl, a baby lies on its back on a spring scale, his arms and legs flailing in the air. His mother watches anxiously. She has brought her child to be weighed, to see how much weight he has lost in the past few days.

It gives me great pleasure to be in Oxford this evening. I am most grateful and honoured that your Society should invite me to talk about the Ismaili Community and its contribution to the Commonwealth.

It gives Me the greatest pleasure to be with you today on My first visit to Pakistan after having assumed My new responsibilities. I am deeply moved by the warmth of your welcome and I shall cherish the memory of your love and affection for Me on this My first visit.

It has been a great pleasure to visit this fine institution and it is my sincere hope that with the support of everyone connected with it, we will succeed together in extending its services to the people of Kisumu and more generally the province.
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Honourable Minister, Dr Manji, Members of the Central and Zonal Health Boards, Ladies and Gentlemen

Honourable Minister,
Distinguished Guests,

Ladies and Gentlemen.

Honourable Ministers, Your Excellencies, Ladies and Gentlemen

Honourable Ministers, Your Excellencies, My Lord Chief Justice, Distinguished Guests.

Honourable Ministers, Your Excellencies, President Ramzan Merchant, Distinguished Guests

I cannot begin this reply to your welcome address without expressing my gratitude to the leaders and governments of this city, of Bombay State and of all India for the kindness with which they have received me.

HAZAR IMAM, in a foundation ceremony on October 11 1982 , launched a 470,000 extension at the Aga Khan Medical Centre in Kisumu.

Hazir Imam and Mrs. Gandhi Inaugurate Centre in New DelhiMowlana Hazir Imam was the guest of honor at the inauguration of the All India Women's Conference Building by Mrs. Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India, on the 26th March 1980 in New Delhi.

Highlights from the Speech by Hazar Imam at the Award Presentation Ceremony - Shalimar Gardens

His Highness accompanied by the Begum, arrived in Uganda on Monday, the 21st February and spent two days performing religious ceremonies in Jamatkhanas. He also officiated at several marriages. Mowlana Hazar Imam visited Nakulabye and Mengo Mosques.