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6 unusual facts about Aga Khan


Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development

Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (AKFED) is one of eight agencies operating under the direction of the umbrella organization, Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), founded and Chaired by His Highness the Aga Khan.

Aga Khan Trust for Culture

The Aga Khan Trust for Culture (AKTC) is an agency of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a family of institutions created by His Highness the Aga Khan with distinct yet complementary mandates to improve the welfare and prospects of peoplein countries of the developing world, particularly in Asia and Africa.

Celestair

Celestair Group represents an alliance of three airlines under the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, AKFED, and benefits from technical and operative support from other airlines owned by the Aga Khan, such as Meridiana and Eurofly of Italy.

Pakistan Boy Scouts Association

In 1936, the H.H. Prince Aga Khan Ismaili Scouts Association (ISA) was established, consisting of Scout Groups, Girl Guide Companies, bands and orchestras.

The present Chief Scout of Ismaili Scout Groups is H.S.H. Prince Amyn Mohammad Aga Khan.

Robert Ivy

His interviews include an architectural who’s who, from the Aga Khan to Pritzker Prize winners and AIA gold medalists.


Delegation of the Ismaili Imamat

The building, as named, serves as a de facto embassy for the Aga Khanate of Nizari Ismailism in Canada, through which the Aga Khan's office (under the auspices of the Aga Khan Foundation) can receive dignitaries of the Canadian government.

Édouard Loubet

His collaboration with the Prince Aga Khan has also led him to develop a menu of the Mandhari - Nairobi Serena’s restaurant-, and coach the Delagoa’s chefs, the restaurant Polana Serena in Maputo, Mozambique.

Edwin Samuel Montagu

On this subject, at the Council of Four on 17 May 1919, he introduced representatives of Muslim India (including the Aga Khan) and urged that Muslim peoples were beginning to see the Conference as "taking sides against Islam".

Grumman G-73 Mallard

A prominent user in Europe in the early 1950s was the Aga Khan.

Mahallat

The southern part was named Mahallat-e Pain and this was where the Aga Khan built his huge castle.

Maserati 5000 GT

The 5000 GT was sold at prices around USD 17000 (twice the cost of a Maserati 3500), and in many respects individualized to the desires of its celebrity buyers, including Aga Khan, Italian industrialist Gianni Agnelli, sportsman Briggs Cunningham, actor Stewart Granger, Ferdinando Innocenti (Ghia-bodied 5000 GT), Basil Read, count Giuseppe Comola, and president Adolfo López Mateos.

Michele Busiri Vici

In the early sixties, Michele Busiri Vici was commissioned by the Aga Khan Prince Karim Aga Khan IV, along with other leading architects of the time Luigi Vietti and Jacques Couelle to create Porto Cervo and the Costa Smeralda or "The Emerald Coast".

R. F. Patrick Cronin

Known for his eye for logistics, Dr. Cronin was recruited by the Aga Khan in 1976 in an advisory capacity to help set up a teaching hospital in Karachi.

Tanzania Scouts Association

Charles Ambrose, Farhad Shivji and Shafik Fazal from the Aga Khan Scouts - 1st Dar-es-Salaam Group, were among the first ten Scouts to be awarded the President's Scout badge by the then President Ali Hassan Mwinyi in August 1992 at Magila Village in Tanga region, the site where Lord Baden-Powell, founder of the Scout movement, enrolled the first Tanganyika Scouts in 1938.


see also

Aga Khan I

The case, commonly referred to as the Aga Khan Case, was heard by Sir Joseph Arnould.

Aga Khan II

Aga Khan II maintained the cordial ties that his father had developed with the British and was appointed to the Bombay Legislative Council when Sir James Fergusson was the governor of Bombay.

Aga Khan Palace

In 1969, Aga Khan Palace was donated to the Indian people by Aga Khan IV as a mark of respect to Gandhi and his philosophy.

CERE India

CERE has conducted lectures, workshops for the many reputed organisations including Accenture, Aga Khan Educational Society, American Centre, Bombay International School, British Council, Concern India, Indian Business School, InspirEd, J B Petit High School for Girls, JSW Foundation, Oberoi Hotel, Rotary Clubs, St. Xavier's College, Symbiosis Footprints

Château d'Artigny

It was also possible to see the actresses Marie Marquet, Edwige Feuillère and Cécile Sorel, the ballet masters Serge Lifar an Serge Diaghilev, the painter Foujita, and the Maharaja of Khapurtala, the Aga Khan.

Daylami

Through a joint ownership between his breeder, the Aga Khan IV, and Darley Stud, he stood as a sire at the Aga Khan's Gilltown Stud near Kilcullen, County Kildare, Ireland until 2006 when he was sent to his Haras de Bonneval stud at Le Mesnil-Mauger in France.

Ismaili Centre, London

Lord Soames, the then Lord President of the Council, laid the foundation stone of the new Centre on 6 September 1979, in the presence of the Aga Khan.

Khaliya Aga Khan

Princess Khaliya was previously married to Prince Hussain Aga Khan, son of Prince Karim Aga Khan (Aga Khan IV) who is the spiritual leader to approximately 15 million Ismaili Muslims.

Prince Hussain (second son of His Highness the Aga Khan and Princess Salimah Aga Khan) and Princess Khaliya were married at the Chateau de Chantilly on 16 September 2006.

Mausoleum of Aga Khan

The Mausoleum of Aga Khan is the mausoleum of Aga Khan III, Sir Sultan Muhammed Shah, who died in 1957.

Princess Salimah Aga Khan

She has three children with the Aga Khan, Princess Zahra Aga Khan (b. September 18, 1970), Prince Rahim Aga Khan (b. October 12, 1971), Prince Hussain Aga Khan (b. April 10, 1974).

Ron Grzywinski

In addition to ShoreBank, Ron works with the boards of the Southern Development Bancorporation in Arkansas, the Grameen Bank and BRAC in Bangladesh, XacBank in Mongolia, the Aga Khan Foundation in Pakistan, and the Ashoka Global Academy in India.

Rudyard Griffiths

He is a member of the executive committee of the board of the Global Centre for Pluralism; an international initiative of His Highness the Aga Khan and the Government of Canada and is a member of the Canadian advisory board of the U.K. based Ditchley Foundation.