The Aga Khan Development Network is a group of development agencies dedicated to improving living conditions and opportunities in the areas where it operates.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge The Royal Family joined His Highness the
#AgaKhan
at a special event organised at the Aga Khan Centre, ahead of Their Royal Highnesses’ official visit to Pakistan from 14-18 October 2019.
#AKDN
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In cooperation with the High Commission of Pakistan, His Highness the Aga Khan hosted the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge in advance of the Royal Visit to Pakistan.
#AgaKhan
#AgaKhanCentre
#AKC
@KensingtonRoyal
The
@EarthshotPrize
is back and they’re heading to Cape Town for Earthshot Week and the fourth annual awards ceremony to celebrate inspiring solutions from around the world to repair our planet.
AKDN is proud to be a Global Alliance Founding Partner of the Prize.
Prince Rahim Aga Khan opens a Software Technology Park in Hunza, Pakistan. It will act as the central resource for a hub and spokes model linking other IT facilities in more remote areas of the region.
Today, we celebrate the 87th birthday of our founder, His Highness the Aga Khan. The management, staff and volunteers of all AKDN institutions respectfully wish His Highness a very happy birthday, and express our gratitude for his vision and inspiration, which guide our efforts.
The President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan (
@PresOfPakistan
), Asif Ali Zardari, today conferred the Nishan-i-Pakistan, the nation’s highest civilian award, on Prince Rahim Aga Khan.
Today, we celebrate the 86th birthday of our founder, His Highness the Aga Khan. The management, staff and volunteers of all AKDN institutions respectfully wish His Highness a very happy birthday, and express our gratitude for his vision and inspiration, which guide our efforts.
His Highness the Aga Khan arrives in Canada for the official Diamond Jubilee Visit marking 60 years as spiritual leader of the global Shia Ismaili Muslim community. Read more:
#DiamondJubilee
#AgaKhan
#CanadaVisit
Exciting news! The finalists of the 2022
#EarthshotPrize
have been announced.
The Aga Khan Development Network is proud to be a Founding Partner of the Prize.
Good luck to all the finalists. We look forward to supporting these ground-breaking solutions to repair our planet. 🌍
Introducing the Finalists of The
#EarthshotPrize
2022
Fifteen extraordinary innovators and leaders from around the world with ground-breaking solutions to repair our planet 🌎
Read about them all here 👉
#EarthshotBoston2022
AKDN is delighted to be at the
@EarthshotPrize
Awards and to support its mission to unleash the urgent optimism required to accelerate and scale the environmental innovations that will repair and regenerate our planet.
Watch the show on 12th November.
Exciting to see
@EarthshotPrize
will be heading to Boston in December for its second annual awards, celebrating extraordinary solutions to repair our planet from all around the world.
AKDN is proud to be a global alliance founding partner of the prize.
#EarthshotBoston2022
Introducing
#EarthshotBoston2022
🇺🇸
This December, we're heading to the
@CityofBoston
for the second annual
#EarthshotPrize
awards ceremony where we'll celebrate 15 extraordinary Finalists, and award five new Winners ✨
Introducing AKDN’s new logo and website!
The AKDN logo expresses interconnectivity. Polygons of three, five and seven form forty-nine different yet congruent units which interact with and reinforce each other to become one.
Congratulations to the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Pakistan, which has won an Energy Globe Award award for its commitment to clean energy and climate resilience.
#Pakistan
#EnergyGlobeAward
#AKRSP
The Aga Khan Health Services (AKHS) has sent medical personnel and equipment to the border crossing point on the Tajik-Chinese border to test people for coronavirus. The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat have provided protective equipment and medical accessories to Tajikistan.
The Aga Khan Trust for Culture is taking up restoration works at the Paigah tombs upon the request of AIMIM MLA and floor leader Akbaruddin Owaisi, who lauded
#AKTC
's conservation efforts at historic Qutb Shahi tombs.
#India
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The management, staff and volunteers of all AKDN institutions respectfully offer
#congratulations
to His Highness the
#AgaKhan
on the occasion of his 65th anniversary as the Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims. His Highness is the Founder and Chairman of the
#AKDN
.
#ImamatDay65
Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural
#EarthshotPrize
and all the finalists! These truly inspiring initiatives create new pathways to help repair our planet and improve the quality of life for us all.
#AKDN
is proud to be a Founding Partner of this wonderful initiative.
Yesterday, Prince Rahim Aga Khan visited Hunza district in Gilgit-Baltistan to launch the development of Duiker Phase II and Nasirabad Solar Power Plants with a total capacity of 3.6 MWp.
#ICYMI
- His Highness the Aga Khan, Chancellor of the
@AKUGlobal
(AKU), addressed AKU's first-ever global virtual convocation earlier today.
#AKUConvocation
#AKU20
We invite you to read his speech and watch the video here:
Yesterday, Prince Rahim Aga Khan met the President of the Federal Republic of Germany, His Excellency Dr Frank-Walter Steinmeier, at the Bellevue Palace, Berlin.
.
@akdn
Founder and Chairman, His Highness the Aga Khan, met with
@JeanCASTEX
, Prime Minister of France, to discuss areas of mutual collaboration and the long-standing relationship between the
#AKDN
and
#France
. 🇫🇷
His Highness the Aga Khan and Her Excellency Julie Payette with former Governor Generals Adrienne Clarkson and David Johnston, and current and former Prime Ministers Justin Trudeau, Joe Clark, and Jean Chretien and their respective spouses this evening at Rideau Hall
#CanadaVisit
"This is a day for all of us to renew our commitment to an
evermore hopeful future, one that will be richer in the products of human ingenuity, more just in their distribution, and more abundant in respect and compassion for one another." -His Highness the Aga Khan
@AKUGlobal
PHOTOS: President Emmanuel Macron received His Highness the
#AgaKhan
today, 18 Sept 2018, at the Élysée Palace in Paris - the official office and residence of the President of France.
His Highness the
#AgaKhan
arrived in
#Portugal
today for a visit commemorating his
#DiamondJubilee
, marking 60 years of
#leadership
as the 49th hereditary Imam (spiritual leader) of the world’s Shia Ismaili Muslim community.
#AKDN
For more information:
His Highness the
#AgaKhan
is due to visit UK at the end of June where he will open the Aga Khan Centre in London's thriving "Knowledge Quarter" at King's Cross.
#AKDN
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Speaking today on behalf of His Highness the Aga Khan, Prince Rahim urged the international community to act with generosity & speed “at a time when so many Afghans are in peril”.
#Afghanistan
Prince Rahim's remarks:
Press Release:
In Karachi, more than 400
#graduates
were awarded at the
@AKUGlobal
#convocation
ceremony. This year’s ceremony was especially significant as it marked the graduation of the university’s 15,000th student and its 10,000th female student.
#AKDN
Read:
As we mark the start of 2018, we take this opportunity to thank all our staff, volunteers, supporters and partners for helping
#AKDN
work toward improving
#qualityoflife
for those who need it most around the world. May 2018 be a year of prosperity and peace for all.
H.E. the President of the Portuguese Republic today inaugurated the state-of-the-art robotics surgical technology donated by
@TheIsmaili
Imamat in the presence of the
#AgaKhan
at Lisbon’s Curry Cabral Hospital.
#AKDN
@AKUGlobal
#Health
Press release:
His Excellency President Michael Higgins of Ireland
@PresidentIRL
& his wife Sabina Mary Coyne, today received His Highness the Aga Khan at their official residence Áras an Uachtaráin. The occasion honoured the Aga Khan’s
#DiamondJubilee
.
Today, Prince Rahim Aga Khan, Chairman of AKDN’s Climate & Environment Committee, joined world leaders in the High Level Ministerial Dialogue for Culture-based Climate Action.
#COP28
Prince Rahim Aga Khan today met the President of Kenya, H.E. Dr
@WilliamsRuto
, in Dubai, UAE. They discussed the decades-long development partnership between the
#AKDN
and the
@GovtOfKenya
to improve the quality of life of all Kenyans, and potential for future cooperation.
His Highness the Aga Khan, Prince Amyn Aga Khan, Prince Hussain Aga Khan, and Prince Aly Muhammad Aga Khan joined the Steering Committee and the Master Jury of the 2019 Aga Khan Music Awards at the Ismaili Centre Lisbon on the first day of the
#AgaKhanMusicAwards
.
His Highness the Aga Khan: One of the special gifts that old friends offer is introducing us to wonderful new friends, and that has also happened here. The project we celebrate today - the Inauguration of the Aga Khan Garden, is a particularly happy example.
HH the Aga Khan: "Now I know that in some parts of the world, “Muslim” and “music” are not so often linked together in the public mind. But they should be. The cultural heritage of Islam has long embraced musical language as an elemental expression of human spirituality."
Today the
@AgaKhanCentre
(AKC) was opened by The Prince of Wales in the presence of His Highness the
#AgaKhan
, in King’s Cross, at the heart of London’s thriving Knowledge Quarter.
#AKDN
@ClarenceHouse
For more information:
On 8 March, Queen Elizabeth II met with the
#AgaKhan
in Windsor Castle during a reception before a private dinner to mark his
#DiamondJubilee
. Prince Charles, the Duchess of Cornwall and members of His Highness' family were also present. Read article:
Congratulations to the Winners of the
@EarthshotPrize
2023! A trailblazing group of innovators, entrepreneurs, community leaders and activists with cutting-edge solutions to repair and regenerate our planet.
AKDN is proud to be a Global Alliance Founding Partner of the Prize.
🇮🇳Ongoing
#conservation
works by
#AgaKhan
Trust for Culture at the Qutb Shahi Heritage Park in
#Hyderabad
on 40+ buildings.
⚒️All carried out by craftsmen using traditional building materials, tools and building techniques.
Prince Rahim Aga Khan met the President of the
@WorldBank
, Ajay Banga, at the World Bank’s headquarters in Washington, DC, today.
They discussed the decades-long development partnership between the World Bank and the various institutions of the AKDN.
Prince Rahim Aga Khan and Her Excellency Ms Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh, met today to discuss
#education
and
#climate
priorities in Bangladesh.
Prince Rahim yesterday met with HE Salem bin Khalid Al Qassimi, UAE’s Minister of Culture and Youth, at the Diwan of the Ismaili Imamat in Lisbon. The Minister was later received at the Ismaili Centre, Lisbon, for a guided tour of the building and its gardens.
A senior cardiac/thoracic surgeon & his team at
@AKUGlobal
have invented a heart simulator, which can help teach resident doctors open-heart surgery & other related operations in much better conditions. Dr Saulat Fatmi said it had been patented in the US.
Today marks the launch of The
@EarthshotPrize
, the most prestigious global environment prize in history, incentivising worldwide change with a decade of action to repair our planet.
Learn more at:
#EarthshotPrize
Prince Rahim Aga Khan met with His Excellency Sadyr Japarov, President of the Kyrgyz Republic, at the Ala Archa State Residence in Bishkek to discuss AKDN’s long-standing presence in the Kyrgyz Republic & their shared desire to deepen cooperation.
Pakistani mountaineer Sirbaz Khan has achieved yet another milestone by scaling Mount Everest (8848 metres), the tallest peak in the world. The expedition was sponsored by
@serenahotels
under its Adventure Diplomacy.
#AKFED
Read the article to learn more:
Speaking at
#GVAfghanistan2018
, the
#AgaKhan
: “I have always maintained that my institutions would make a permanent commitment to the country. Therefore, on behalf of the Ismaili Imamat and
@AKDN
, I underline, once again, our enduring commitment to
#Afghanistan
and its peoples.”
Originally built in 1570, Humayun’s Tomb was the first garden-tomb on the Indian subcontinent. The restoration of the Tomb complex in Delhi is the
#AgaKhanTrustforCulture
’s largest cultural project to date. In 1993, the tomb was declared a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
When in New Delhi, the
#AgaKhan
will inaugurate the Sunder Nursery, a 16th-century heritage garden adjacent to Humayun’s Tomb. The 96-acre green patch was restored over 9 years by the Aga Khan Trust for
#Culture
.
#AKDN
#conservation
#HistoricCities
Read:
The
#AgaKhan
was recently named the Global Founding Patron of the Prince of Wales's charitable trust. The Aga Khan will now support the delivery of the work of The Prince's Trust in
#Canada
,
#Australia
,
#NewZealand
.
#AKDN
Read article:
As His Highness the Aga Khan arrives in Portugal today for the last visit of his Diamond Jubilee commemoration, we are pleased to publish this overview of the work of the Ismaili Imamat in Portugal. …/ismaili-imamat-and-akdn-portugal
At
@COP28
, the Aga Khan Health Services and
@AKUGlobal
participated in an event at the
@WHO
Health Pavilion to explore how to reduce the emissions of the
#health
sector's most significant carbon source - its supply chain.
The creation of the 30-hectare Al-Azhar Park, undertaken in the historic district of Cairo by the Aga Khan Trust for Culture, has become a catalyst for urban renewal in one of the most congested cities in the world
#AKDN
#Egypt
#AKTC
#InternationalDayForMonumentsAndSites
Members of Calgary’s Ismaili Muslim community are preparing for a visit from His Highness the
#AgaKhan
next month. The spiritual leader will be in
#Calgary
from 9 to 11 May as part of a visit to
#Canada
to celebrate his
#DiamondJubilee
anniversary.
#AKDN
His Excellency, the Honourable Ralph Goodale, High Commissioner for Canada in the United Kingdom, today presented his credentials as the Representative of Canada to the Ismaili Imamat.
Prince Rahim Aga Khan received Mr Goodale’s credentials on behalf of His Highness the Aga
Since 2005, the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme has been researching the viability of glacier grafting in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. As a steward of the environment, AKDN is extremely proud that we are a Global Alliance Founding Partner of The
@EarthshotPrize
.
#EarthshotPrize
The Aga Khan Development Network is responding to the torrential rains and devastating floods in Pakistan by evacuating residents to safer areas, and providing food, shelter and health care.
SPEECH–“I bring congratulations & good wishes from the Chancellor. Throughout your tenure at UCA he has been following your progress with great interest, & today is the culmination of your achievements of which we are all so proud”
Princess Zahra
#AgaKhan