Personifying cherished Canadian values, His Highness the Aga Khan has devoted his life to protecting the environment and alleviating human suffering due to poverty.

Bata Limited and the Aga Khan Development Network are pleased to announce that the property which includes the Bata International Centre at 59 Wynford Drive in Toronto has been conditionally sold to an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network.

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By Yunusu Abbey
May 20, 2003

Nur wer Menschen hilft, dient Gott'Karim Aga Khan IV.

Nur wer Menschen hilft, dient Gott

Von Follath, Erich

Karim Aga Khan IV. über seine Rolle als Nachfahre des Propheten und Führer der Ismailiten

One of France's most magnificent castles, home to a spectacular art collection boasting three works by Raphael, is to be saved from falling into disrepair by a rich neighbour.

Dalakhani romp fires Derby double hopesThe Aga Khan started Vodafone Derby week in the best possible style, greeting Dalakhani in the winner's enclosure following yesterday's Prix du Jockey-Club at Chantilly.

The Aga Khan's brilliant three-year-old colt, Dalakhani, was named the Cartier Horse of The Year at the annual end-of-season Cartier Awards dinner held in London last night.

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.

Nasim Rajani's family was at prayer when they lost their every possession in the world.

Canada has successfully constructed a public sphere predicated on the ethic of respect for human dignity.

The Aga Khan, spiritual leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims, says an international centre to promote pluralism will be established in Ottawa.

The National Building Museum in Washington features a colossal hall with Corinthian columns measuring 75 feet high and eight feet wide -- they are among the tallest interior columns in the world.

In old Cairo, I am winding my way through a labyrinth of narrow streets. All is a confusion of human and vehicular traffic, the buzz of conversation and the din of animal noises -- goats and chickens are common here, as many of their owners have left villages to seek urban fortunes.

The Aga Khan was awarded the fifth Vincent Scully Prize last night at a ceremony in Washington, honouring him for his contributions to design excellence and the 'improvement of the built environment in the Muslim world.' The award, named after the famous Yale architect, author and educator, was s

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.

ISMAILIS, a Muslim group comprising 17 million followers worldwide, are an influential, liberal and articulate minority in the Islamic world who form part of the Shia tradition - those who claim that only a descendant of Ali, the Prophet's cousin and son-in-law, could be an imam or leader of the

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.

Today President of Kazakhstan Nursultan Nazarbayev has received the distinguished public figure Prince Karim Aga Khan in Astana. The two discussed issues of regional development, particularly, activities of Central Asia University that researches problems of mountainous regions.

The issue to ratify agreement on economic cooperation between Kyrgyz government and Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) will be solved on June 3, 2003 at a session of the Legislative Assembly of the Jogorku Kenesh (Parliament) of Kyrgyzstan.

The issue to ratify agreement on economic cooperation between Kyrgyz government and Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) will be solved on June 3, 2003 at a session of the Legislative Assembly of the Jogorku Kenesh (Parliament) of Kyrgyzstan.

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.

THE MURMUR of young students reciting the Qur'an wafts through the hallways of this remote village school. It's a familiar sound in the crumbling classrooms of rural Pakistan, where students often memorize Islam's holy book without learning its lessons.

Aga Khan, spiritual leader of Shite Muslims, meets Leader of the Opposition Sonia Gandhi at in the Capital on Tuesday. ? Tribune photo Mukesh Aggarwal

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.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello has expressed his profoundest sorrow over the death yesterday of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan.

The UN refugee agency is mourning the death of its former High Commissioner, Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, who led UNHCR through some of its most difficult times in the 1960s and 1970s. He died in Boston on Monday at the age of 70.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Sergio Vieira de Mello has expressed his profoundest sorrow over the death of Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan.

Philanthropist and humanitarian Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan has died in the United States after a long illness. He was 70.
An official at one of Prince Sadruddin's foundations said the prince died Monday at a hospital in Boston, Massachusetts. Details of his illness have not been released.

On Friday March 25, Egyptian first lady Suzanne Mubarak and the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, a private agency which seeks to revitalize Muslim communities, will inaugurate the largest public park built in Cairo in over a century.

Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan, 70, a wealthy philanthropist who held a string of top U.N. humanitarian posts and was the uncle of the spiritual leader of the Ismaili sect of Shiite Islam, died May 12 at Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. No cause of death was reported.

Tucked away in a residential area of India's capital is one of its least-known tourist attractions ? the 16th-century tomb of the Emperor Humayun.

Belgian jockey Christophe Soumillon emulated John Murtagh?s hat trick at the 2000 Prix de l?Arc de Triomphe (Fr-G1) meeting by piloting the winners of three Group 1 races on Longchamp?s card on Sunday, including both the Prix d?Essai des Poulains (French Two Thousands Guineas) and Prix d?Essai de

Head of the People's Representative Assembly of the Jogorku Kenesh of Kyrgyzstan Altai Borubayev received Prince Aga Khan IV.

Your Excellency, President Mwai Kibaki,Honourable Minister for Industry, Mukisa Kituyi
Honourable Ministers,
Excellencies,
Ladies and Gentlemen

Ladies and Gentlemen
It is a great pleasure for me to have the opportunity to address this inaugural session of the World Mountain Forum.

Madame Minister, Ladies and Gentlemen I thank the Government of Norway and Minister Johnson for the invitation to speak here this morning and for her generous words of introduction. Madame Minister, the exchanges we have enjoyed since we met yesterday has been highly constructive.

Mitglieder der Aga Khan Foundation verteilen Hilfsg

The Aga Khan yesterday concluded a three-day official visit to Syria during which he had meetings with President Bashar al-Assad and a series of discussions with Ministers on key development priorities for the country.The Aga Khan's discussions with President Al-Assad touched on a range of issues

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.