His Aga Khan Development Network, or AKDN, has been active in Central Asia—most particularly in Tajikistan’s Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region, or GBAO, home to the oppressed Pamiri mountain ...

His Highness Prince Karim al-Hussaini Aga Khan IV, leader of Ismaili Muslims worldwide, died Feb. 4. Almas Muscatwalla writes ...

The father of Aga Khan IV served as Pakistan’s ambassador to the United Nations in the late 1950s. The AKDN started work in Afghanistan and Tajikistan in the 1990s, a time when there was civil ...

Al-Hussaini is now Aga Khan V, a title given to the 50th imam of the Nizari Ismaili branch of Shia Islam. Although the Ismaili Muslim community is estimated to include only 12 to 15 million people, ...

The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the ... including Bangladesh, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, where he spent tens of millions of dollars for development of local economies.

Aga Khan was the leader of the Nizari branch ... Pakistan, Portugal, Syria, Tajikistan, Tanzania and Uganda. The foundation also has offices in Australia, Canada, the United Kingdom and the ...

A network of hospitals bearing the Aga Khan's name is scattered in places where health care was lacking for the poorest, including Bangladesh, Tajikistan and Afghanistan, where he spent tens of ...

Prince Karim Al-Hussaini Aga Khan, a business magnate, philanthropist and the leader of millions of Ismaili Muslims worldwide, has been laid to rest in a private ceremony in Egypt. The death of ...

Former President Uhuru Kenyatta. [File, Standard] Former President Uhuru Kenyatta has sent his condolence message, following the death of the Aga Khan. The imam of the Ismaili Muslims and head of ...

PARIS (AP) — The Aga Khan, who became the spiritual leader of the world’s millions of Ismaili Muslims at age 20 as a Harvard undergraduate and poured a material empire built on billions of ...