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AKU & Columbia U announce dual master’s degree 2020-03-12
Posted April 19th, 2023 by librarian-hdThe unique degree brings together two of the world’s leading universities and gives students the opportunity to study a topic of global significance while based in London and New York.
Columbia University and AKU have jointly developed an advanced curriculum for the program that includes a two-and-a-half-year sequence of reading and research seminars, interdisciplinary electives, and intensive foreign language training.
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Prince Karim Aga Khan – The legend of Humanity 2023-03-28
Posted April 5th, 2023 by librarian-hdPrince Karim Aga Khan is a highly esteemed figure who has made significant contributions to humanity. As the spiritual leader of the Ismaili Muslim community, he is globally recognized a visionary leader. His ancestors have a long history of passion and generosity in creating an ecosystem for nurturing human index development chiefly in the field of education, health, and Islamic culture.
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Speech by Princess Zahra Aga Khan during the AKU Founder's Day and 40th Anniversary celebrations 2023-03-18
Posted March 20th, 2023 by librarian-hdMarch 18, 2023
In her address to the gathering, Princess Zahra Aga Khan delivered a message from Hazar Imam – Chancellor and Founder of the Aga Khan University – on the occasion of the 40th Anniversary celebration of the Aga Khan University a three-fold celebration: AKU’s 40th anniversary; the inaugural Founder’s Day commemoration; and the success of AKU’s Class of 2022.. Shamiyana structures were set up at AKU’s campus in Karachi — and across similar stages at AKU’s campuses in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam, and Kampala.
Karachi, Pakistan
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Message from Hazar Imam, on the occasion of the AKU Founder's Day and 40th Anniversary celebration 2023-03-18
Posted March 19th, 2023 by librarian-hdMessage by Chancellor His Highness The Aga Khan (Convocation today).
Bismillah-ir-Rahman-ir-Rahim
Forty years ago, the Aga Khan University received its Charter from the Government of Pakistan as a vast crowd of well-wishers looked on. It was a truly historic occasion – the kind that comes only a few times in one's life. It filled my heart and the hearts of many others with joy and pride.
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Chief Minister Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah speaking on the occasion of AKU Founder’s Day 2023-03-18
Posted March 18th, 2023 by librarian-hdThe Aga Khan University on Saturday celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2022, its first-ever Founder's Day and the University's 40th anniversary. Simultaneous ceremonies were held in Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and broadcast online to an international audience of AKU's friends and supporters. Princess Zahra Aga Khan attended the ceremony in Karachi and shared a message from His Highness the Aga Khan, Founder and Chancellor of the University. Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah was the Chief Guest.
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Princess Zahra delivered a message from Hazar Imam at the AKU Founder's Day and 40th Anniversary celebration 2023-03-18
The Aga Khan University on Saturday celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2022, its first-ever Founder's Day and the University's 40th anniversary. Simultaneous ceremonies were held in Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and broadcast online to an international audience of AKU's friends and supporters. Princess Zahra Aga Khan attended the ceremony in Karachi and shared a message from His Highness the Aga Khan, Founder and Chancellor of the University. Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah was the Chief Guest.
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Princess Zahra speaking at the AKU Founder's Day and 40th Anniversary 2023-03-18
Princess Zahra delivers message from Hazar Imam during the AKU Founder's Day and 40th Anniversary held at AKU, Karachi 2023-03-18
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Aga Khan University Graduates 777 Students, Celebrates Founder's Day and 40th Anniversary 2023-03-18
Posted March 18th, 2023 by librarian-hdThe Aga Khan University on Saturday celebrated the graduation of the Class of 2022, its first-ever Founder's Day and the University's 40th anniversary. Simultaneous ceremonies were held in Pakistan, Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda and broadcast online to an international audience of AKU's friends and supporters. Princess Zahra Aga Khan attended the ceremony in Karachi and shared a message from His Highness the Aga Khan, Founder and Chancellor of the University. Chief Minister of Sindh Syed Murad Ali Shah was the Chief Guest.
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$3 million grant supports AKH in ambitious effort to improve children’s health around the world 2023-03-10
Posted March 12th, 2023 by librarian-hdAn international team of researchers has received $3 million to support an ambitious effort to understand how early gut development can profoundly shape children's health throughout life.
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AKU, AKAH, UCA launch climate change documentary series for South, Central Asia 2020-10-15
Posted March 4th, 2023 by librarian-hdKARACHI-In a bid to spotlight the dire consequences of climate change in Central and South Asia, the Aga Khan University (AKU), the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat (AKAH) and the University of Central Asia (UCA) launched a film series focusing on the catastrophic impact of the rapid melting of the world’s largest repository of ice outside the polar regions.
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Prince Hussain speaking at the AKU Climate Challenge conference 2022-12-02
Prince Hussain Aga Khan on AKU President’s Challenge for Climate Solutions - The AKU President’s Challenge for Climate Solutions 2022 concludes today after an overwhelming response and participation from students across the University and beyond. As part of the months-long Challenge, the students worked on the theme.
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Speech by Prince Hussain Aga Khan at AKU President’s Challenge for Climate Solutions 2022-12-02
Posted December 24th, 2022 by librarian-hdSpeech by Prince Hussain Aga Khan
At the Aga Khan University, Pakistan
December 2022
First and foremost, I want to applaud everyone who participated in the President’s challenge for climate solutions.
Climate change is a subject that we hear about constantly. It is on the front page of newspapers. It is the subject of films, television shows and books. It is discussed by world leaders at high-profile events and by millions of people on social media. Yet the volume of attention still exceeds the appetite for action.
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Karachi Jamat 1948
The whole Karachi Ismaili Jamat photographed with 48th Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah in 1902 at Aga Khan Gymkhana
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Speech by Prince Sadruddin Aga Khan - Earth on the Market 2002-12-19
Posted December 7th, 2022 by librarian-hdDespite all the hype, the UN-sponsored world summit on sustainable development in South Africa in August could not introduce any real constraints because they would have meant re-examining globalisation. So could sustainable development just be a pretext for maintaining a growth that must be, by nature, destructive to the environment?
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AKU Chief Information Officer receives global industry award 2022-12-01
Posted December 1st, 2022 by librarian-hdAga Khan University's (AKU) Global Chief Information Officer, Shaukat Ali Khan, has been awarded the DXInspire 2022 Award at the recently concluded World CIO Summit held in Bangkok, Thailand.
The DXInspire Award represents the highest accolade that a CIO can receive – it is offered by the Global CIO Forum in recognition of individuals involved in path-breaking projects that have redefined Digital Transformation.
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Documentary to highlight climate crisis in Asia’s mountains-documentary by AKDN 2022-11-05
Posted November 6th, 2022 by librarian-hdKARACHI:
Filmmakers from Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Nepal contribute to present 10 episodes
With contributions by filmmakers from Pakistan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Nepal, the 10-episode second season of the environmental documentary series Voices from the Roof of the World (VRW) features the climate crisis in the mountains of Asia.
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Remembering Aga Khan III 2022-11-02
Posted November 2nd, 2022 by librarian-hdThe year 1911 is not a distant past in the history of the subcontinent; Sir Sultan Mahomed Shah, Aga Khan III, in his inaugural address to the Muslim Educational Conference, highlighted the need for a serviceable and extended system of education to raise Muslims of the subcontinent to their legitimate sphere of power, influence and usefulness. He said, “If our people take to science and scientific education in the right spirit, the industrial and economic future of our community will no longer be in doubt.”
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Mowlana Sultan Muhammad Shah
November 2nd marks 145th birthday anniversary of our beloved 48th Imam Shah Sultan Muhammad Shah Aga Khan who was born in Karachi, Pakistan at a place known as Mohammed Tekri in 1877
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AKU recognised for treating 300,000 people in flood areas 2022-10-05
Posted October 5th, 2022 by librarian-hdKARACHI: Sindh Minister of Health and Population Welfare Dr Azra Pechuho has recognised the Aga Khan University for treating 300,000 people and distributing medicines of Rs 143 million in 42 districts of Sindh, Balochistan, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Punjab.
“The way Aga Khan University gathered resources in a short period of time and joined the Government’s efforts to provide relief in the flood-affected areas is commendable,” said Dr Pechuho while addressing an event organised by AKU Flood Response Task Force.
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Aga Khan University’s Signs MoU with Roche & Sysmex for Automated Laboratory System 2022-09-17
Posted September 17th, 2022 by librarian-hdThe Aga Khan University’s Outreach Health Network, Roche Diagnostics, and Sysmex signed an agreement to install a New Fully Automated Laboratory system in the main lab and 14 outreach centers of the Aga Khan University Hospital across Pakistan.
Connected with Roche’s Cobas IT infinity solutions, these latest, state-of-the-art high throughput automated systems are designed to give laboratories full and transparent control over their operational processes, at single and multi-site operations.
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