Speech: Aga Khan Maternity and Child Care Centre Opening Ceremony (Hyderabad, Pakistan) ·· missing
His Highness the Aga Khan IV SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY)None Found ...
Speech: Aga Khan Girls' Hostel Foundation Stone Ceremony (Hyderabad, Pakistan) ·· incomplete
Those in the rural areas must have the same opportunities for education and the resulting self-fulfilment that are available in those in the towns and cities. The talented young people of the countryside and the small towns of Sind have much to give as well as receive to make their contribution to future generations.... The students of the 1990's, the young ...
Speech: Various events during the March 1989 visit to Pakistan (Pakistan) ·· maybe missing
March ??, 1989 (Karachi): During the 10-day visit, His Highness the Aga Khan , as Chancellor of the Aga Khan University, participated in a number of events at the University in Karachi. SOURCESCanadian Ismaili, July 1989ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
Interview: India Today Interview (1st), Aroon Purie (??, India)
As Imam of the Ismaili sect, I am in a position to adapt the teachings of the Qur'an to the modern condition. On the question of modernity the issue is essentially whether one is affecting the fundamental moral fabric of society or whether one is affecting the fundamentals of religious practice. As long as these two aspects are safeguarded the rest ...
Speech: IPS Kenya's Silver Jubilee Commemoration (Kenya) ·· incomplete
[In 1963] the idea, that development companies could commit substantial quantities of equity, to the developing world, and demonstrate that equity could be invested, be made productive, could grow and establish sound long-term enterprises, was, in 1963, a difficult question for people to believe in, and to sustain. I think to-day, that decision has been demonstrated to have been a sound ...
Speech: Nation Centre Foundation Stone Ceremony (Nairobi, Kenya)
In the late 1950's, the need for a platform to enable the people of Kenya to debate in a public and responsible manner the emerging and important issues affecting their -- and their children's -- future was recognised. I was approached by individuals representing a wide spectrum of society, who asked me to consider establishing a newspaper. In response, I launched ...
Speech: Various events during the December 1988 visit to East Africa (Kenya, Zanzibar, Tanzania?, Uganda?) ·· missing
December 7, 1988: Dinner hosted by Chief Minister Hon. Omar Ali Juma.December 8, 1988: Aga Khan Network and the Revolutionary Government of Zanzibar "Protocol of Co-operation for Development" Signing Ceremony.December 8, 1988: After the signing, His Highness the Aga Khan hosted a lunch in honour of the Chief Minister Hon. Omar Ali Juma. Speaking on the occasion, the Chief Minister assured ...
Discussion, Eleventh Seminar, 'The Architecture of Housing', The Aga Khan Award For Architecture (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
We are talking about how the processes can be organised and enhanced and encouraged by governments so that they release the capability of populations to build for themselves. Mona Serageldin's paper showed the risk of disorganised processes and another paper showed the result of organised processes. If you make a comparison with health care, the curriculum of the specialist in primary ...
Speech: Closing Remarks, Eleventh Seminar, 'Architecture of Housing', The Aga Khan Award For Architecture (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
I wish to express my admiration to the Government of Zanzibar for having taken the initiative to sustain and enhance and support the Stone Town. This is an exciting initiative, one which I would hope to see replicated with success throughout the Islamic world. The restoration of these historic cities should not be an exercise exclusively in cultural continuity but an ...
Speech: Opening Remarks, Eleventh Seminar, 'Architecture of Housing', The Aga Khan Award For Architecture (Zanzibar, Tanzania)
In the seamless web we call national development, housing is only one factor influencing the quality of human life. But how vital it is to health and human safety, still more fundamentally, the state of a person's home touches deep chords in the human spirit. It can make him proud or ashamed; give him light and a sense of hope or ...
Speech: Various events during the October 1988 visit to Tanzania (Tanzania) ·· missing
October 11, 1988 (Dar-es-Salaam): Visited the Aga Khan Mzizima Secondary School.October ??, 1988: Other functions and events His Highness the Aga Khan attended, where speeches may have been made, during the 12 day visit are unknown. SOURCESAs above from ismaili.net. POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
Speech: Overseas Development Administration (ODA) Accord of Co-operation Signing Ceremony (London, United Kingdom)
The large donor agencies have a particular contribution to make to the policy dialogue and to the provision of financial and technical resources. NGOs, with their intimate connection to the grassroots can complement these strengths with knowledge of the needs of the poor and with vital experiments in social and environmental progress. This is precisely the promise of partnership that can, ...
Industrial Promotion Services, Ivory Coast, and the International Finance Corporation Agreement Signing Ceremony (Aiglemont)
The wise and open policy practised by the Ivory Coast that had produced stable economic conditions for both foreign and international capital. During a brief signing ceremony, His Highness the Aga Khan underlined that the new agreement was the fruit of the wise and open policy practised by the Ivory Coast that had produced stable economic conditions for both foreign and ...
Speech: Faisalabad Serena Hotel Opening Ceremony (Faisalabad, Pakistan) ·· incomplete
In his address, His Highness the Aga Khan observed there is increasing interest in the world's faiths and cultures, and he believed that Pakistan has much to offer which is unique and of profound and genuine interest for those who wish to learn about and see at first hand the cultural legacies which have been left here to succeeding generations. That ...
Writing: Remark in the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme Visitor's Book (Northern Pakistan)
I have spent here in the Northern Areas one of the most inspiring and exciting weeks of my life. Words are shallow in comparison to the depth of feeling and admiration I have for the extraordinary achievements of AKRSP, [Aga Khan Rural Support Programme] and everyone connected with it, achieved in the last five years. Centuries of poverty and despair, human ...
Speech: Aga Khan Rural Support Programme Convention of Village Organisation Representatives (Giligit, Pakistan) ·· incomplete
In an address to a convention of representatives of various village organizations of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme, His Highness the Aga Khan lauded the efforts of AKRSP and urged the rural masses to pool their resources and skills for the attainment of self-sufficiency, for that is the pre-requisite for any kind of development. He said that a visible change ...
Speech: Aga Khan Academy Opening Ceremony (Karimabad, Hunza, Pakistan) ·· incomplete
Education, it has been said, enables a person to walk with confidence on unfamiliar ground. What is this Academy doing to prepare its young women to walk with confidence in a world of change? His Highness the Aga Khan opened the Aga Khan Academy at Karimabad, Hunza. In His speech, the Aga Khan said: Education, it has been said, enables a ...
Visit to Marthing and Bombagh (Chitral, Pakistan)
It is my hope that in the years ahead the village organizations will be able to extend their knowledge, their wisdom, their understanding of the area, to domains of endeavour, which are also important to the quality of life in the Northern Areas. And I refer to health, to education, to housing. These are all areas where In'Sha'Allah as the village ...
Speech: Students' Hostel Foundation Stone Ceremony (Booni, Northern Areas, Paksitan) ·· incomplete
The architecture of the hostel will reflect building designs of the region; it will be earthquake-resistant and , Inshallah, a place of beauty and lightness. His Highness the Aga Khan laid the foundation of the Students' Hostel at Booni, Northern areas, Pakistan. In his speech, the Aga Khan said: The architecture of the hostel will reflect building designs of the region; ...
Speech: Various events during the November 1987 visit to Pakistan (Pakistan) ·· missing
November 15, 1987 (Islamabad): Dinner was hosted by the President of Pakistan.November 17, 1987 (Chitral): Lunch organised at Gharamchashma for His Highness the Aga Khan ; local Ismailis built 49 gaily decorated gates signifying the 49 Imams.November 17, 1987 (Chitral): Met a delegation of leaders of sister communities. Dinner hosted by the Commissioner.November 18-21, 1987 (Northern Areas): Visits to Phander, Passu, ...
Speech: Meeting with the first M.I.T. graduates of the Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture's post-graduate Advanced Degree Programme in Architecture (Cambridge, USA) ·· maybe missing
His Highness the Aga Khan met with M.I.T. students at Cambridge, Massachusets who were the first graduates of a new two-year post-graduate advanced degree programme in Architecture launched in 1985 under the aegis of the Aga Khan Programme for Islamic Architecture at Harvard and M.I.T. At an informal ceremony, the Aga Khan presented the graduating students with a personal gift and ...
Speech: McMaster University Convocation Ceremony (Hamilton, Canada)
Can a poor country, with many competing demands upon it, with a powerful sense of its own culture and languages, rejuvenate in its schools the teaching of the natural sciences? What series of wise policies and investments will knit developing societies more firmly into the international networks of scientific information and ways of thought, will enhance original research and enquiry? Unless ...
Speech: Global and Mail Dinner (Toronto, Canada)
I have sought to underwrite our endeavours in social development with initiatives designed to promote economic progress. The two are inextricably linked and must remain so if people are not to be faced with the unacceptable choice between the poverty of the economics of welfare, on the one hand, and raw material greed untempered by any social conscience, on the other. ...
Speech: Various events during the April 1987 visit to Portugal (Lisbon, Portugal) ·· maybe missing
April 8, 1987: National School of Public Health visit.April 8, 1987: Dinner hosted by President Mario Soares. SOURCESAs above from ismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
Speech: Keynote Address at the International Development Conference, 'The Enabling Environment: An Urgent Challenge' (Washington, D.C., USA)
There is a tendency to separate the profit sector from the voluntary. But the potential for close and effective links must be enhanced. The business sector has much to offer, especially in terms of management and technology. The majority of the scarce managerial talent in the Third World lies in private business. How can we apply some of that talent to ...
Interview: Pranay Gupte Interview, 'The Unlikely Patriach' (India)
The only answer for the Third World, in my view, is for it to become more productive -- and the way to achieve that is by encouraging both local and international investment, especially in rural development. State-owned enterprises can seldom be a total substitute for private sector initiative in building the infrastructure of a nation's economy. A developing country cannot afford ...
Speech: Banquet in honour of the President of Bangladesh (Dacca, Bangladesh) ·· missing
His Highness the Aga Khan met Deputy Prime Minister, Foreign Minister, Finance Minister and Planning Minister separately. In the evening the Aga Khan hosted a banquet in honour of President of Bangladesh at Sonargaon Hotel which was attended by the Prime Minister, Ministers, ambassadors, elite of the city and the leaders of the Ismaili community. SOURCESHidayatismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
Speech: Dinner hosted by the President of Bangladesh (Dacca, Bangladesh) ·· incomplete
His Highness the Aga Khan, in his speech, held out the assurance that the Aga Khan Network of institutions and programmes in the economic, social and cultural fields will seek to continue to play their role in Bangladesh as elsewhere in South Asia. He observed that only a quarter of a century ago, experts on world development problems predicted that much ...
Interview: Riad Naguib El-Rais Interview, 'The Critical Time' (Al Mustaqbal, Cairo, Egypt)
God has favoured me with the blessing of Islam. I think that many religions find it difficult to adapt to or to live in an evolving world. Not so with a Muslim who believes in the omnipresence of God. In Islam, there is no dichotomy between the spiritual and the temporal. I have endeavoured all my life to live and work ...
Speech: Closing Ceremony, Third Aga Khan Award for Architecture (Marrakech, Morroco)
I think that in the Islamic world today, those who live within it and those who care about it, Muslims or otherwise, must be careful not to seek to live within the terminology of the absolute. Muslims do not believe in the absolute other than in God Himself. I think that this is an important concept to keep in mind. Because, ...
Speech: Various events during the November 1986 visit to Morocco (Morocco) ·· missing
November 25, 1986: Dinner hosted by King Hassan of Morocco (Rabat, Morocco)November 25, 1986: Award Ceremony for the Le Grand Cordon de l'Order du Trone Cherifien (Grand Cordon of Ouissam-al Arch). His Highness the Aga Khan IV SOURCESismaili.net POSSIBLY RELATED READINGS (GENERATED AUTOMATICALLY) ...
GALLERY: 1986 Aga Khan Award for Architecture recipients
Marrakech, 24 November 1986 - Third AgaKhan Award for Architecture Ceremony held in Morocco in the presence of His Highness the Crown Prince Sidi Mohamed of Morocco and the Crown Prince Sidi Hassan of Jordan and Ministers from Egypt, Niger, Turkey and Yugoslavia. Eleven projects have been selected by the Master Jury from the 213 nominations for the third AgaKhan Award ...
Video: Speech: Third Aga Khan Award for Architecture Prize Ceremony (Marrakech, Morocco)
A culture reaches an optimum level of efficiency, of brilliance, of productivity in the midst of the existence of those who live and make it, when all the activities which it consists of confront each other, inter-penetrate and converge towards the general integration of that society.... Architecture must integrate cultural wealth and creative spirit, I would even venture to say the ...
Speech: Jamati Institutional Leaders Dinner (New York, USA)
There is a very current expression in English which is to behave like an ostrich. So I don't know why the English seem to think that the ostriches, when they have problems, bury their heads in the sand. I have never seen them do that but any how, well, this is apparently what London believes happens. In any event, this is ...
Speech: Visit to Jubilee Insurance Company Limited (Nairobi, Kenya) ·· incomplete
[W]e must determine for ourselves, in our own special circumstances, how our doctors should be trained, how they should be utilized and motivated once they qualify, how they can be provided a structured career development which extracts the maximum national value from a scarce and precious human resource: that is the crux of the problem as I see it. His Highness ...
Speech: Leather Industries of Kenya Ltd Opening Ceremony (Thika, Kenya) ·· incomplete
Among the ways the Aga Khan said the leather project was significant, were that it is situated away from the country's main industrial centres, thereby supporting the government's policy of decentralization and relies largely on local raw materials and manpower and will employ some 400 people when in full production. At the same time many more people will benefit indirectly from ...
Speech: Aga Khan Development Network's Enabling Environment Conference, Opening Session, 'The Enabling Environment for Effective Private Sector Contribution to Development in Sub-Saharan Africa', (Nairobi, Kenya)
One challenge facing you as participants in this conference is to find specific ways to nurture, and to draw lessons from, these private experiments with quality and efficient management. In particular, I think there are four questions that deserve your attention: First, how can the voluntary sector itself find ways to increase its management capabilities? ... Secondly, we need to strive ...
Video: Interview: CBC Interview (1st), Man Alive with Roy Bonisteel (Canada)
One of the most difficult questions I ask and, and I've asked it I don't know how many times, is simply "What is the definition of happiness for a peasant in Asia or Africa?" If we can't answer that question we don't know what are the elements that contribute and the priorities of those elements, we certainly will never be able ...
Speech: Closing Remarks, Tenth Seminar, 'Architecture Education in the Islamic World', The Aga Khan Award For Architecture (Granada, Spain)
From the presentations of the delegates during the last four days, it is evident that professors and educators in the architectural field do have a number of very fundamental concerns about the way in which their faculties [of architecture] are functioning ... I hope that the reasons underlying the more general difficulties experienced by universities in the developing world in their ...
Speech: Opening Remarks, Tenth Seminar, 'Architecture Education in the Islamic World', The Aga Khan Award For Architecture (Granada, Spain)
The starting point for the Aga Khan Award for Architecture was a realisation that changing social and economic conditions, coupled with the accelerating pace of technological development, were inflicting upon the world's 800 million Muslims an environment which often did not reflect their culture, their life-styles, their faith and hopes or even the demands of the climates in which they live. ...
