The Aga Khan Rural Support Program (AKRSP) has approved an upgrade of the distribution system of a powerhouse catering to the villages of Istach, Dizg, Khruzg, Mahting and Yukum in Upper Chitral. The project was approved through efforts of the former union council.
Today marks a special occasion in the history of HBL, Pakistan’s largest Bank in the private sector. The Bank celebrates the 50th anniversary of the HBL Plaza building.
According to an analysis of Pakistan’s Covid-19 response that has recently been published in an international journal Eastern Mediterranean Health Journal, there is continued need for strong technical and programmatic oversight, linked to civil society engagement and working with religious schola
The cardiology and electrophysiology team at the Aga Khan University Hospital (AKUH) performed a low-risk, new technology procedure for atrial fibrillation, earlier this month.
Karachi, 15 September 2021 - Today, the Aga Khan University welcomed into office President Sulaiman Shahabuddin, the University’s third president since its founding in 1983. President Shahabuddin leads an institution that has 3,200 students on three continents, cares for two million patients in a typical year and has recently been ranked amongst the world’s top 100 universities in several fields thanks to its research prowess. He succeeds Firoz Rasul, who has retired after leading the University to new heights during the 15 years he served as president.
Islamabad, 3 September 2021: The Aga Khan Agency for Habitat signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Office of Sustainability, National University of Sciences and Technology to develop sustainable habitat plans for disaster-prone valleys in northern Pakistan.
Entre 2016 et 2021, la Fondation Aga Khan a entrepris un projet dont l’objectif était d’améliorer la santé et le bien-être des femmes et des enfants de moins de cinq ans au Kenya, au Mali, au Mozambique et au Pakistan en collaboration avec les gouvernements et les communautés à l’échelle locale et avec le soutien financier d’Affaires mondiales Canada. Au total, 1,7 million de personnes, dont 60 % de femmes et de filles, ont bénéficié de ce projet d’une valeur de 24 millions de dollars, nommé « Accès à des soins de qualité par l’expansion et le renforcement des systèmes de santé » (AQCESS).
From 2016 to 2021 the Aga Khan Foundation, in collaboration with local governments and communities and with the financial support of Global Affairs Canada, undertook a project dedicated to improving the health and well-being of women and children under five in Kenya, Mali, Mozambique and Pakistan. The US$ 24 million project – Access to Quality Care through Extending and Strengthening Health Systems (AQCESS) – reached 1.7 million people, 60 percent of them women and girls.
In July 2021, during his tour of the Aga Khan Higher Secondary School, Karimabad, Hunza, Pakistan’s Federal Minister for Education, Mr. Shafqat Mahmood, praised the Aga Khan Education Services for providing quality education to students in some of the remotest parts of Gilgit-Baltistan and Chitral.
In mountainous Gilgit Baltistan of northern Pakistan, where communities are small and presumably tightly knit, mobilising residents to pay for and operate water infrastructure appears to work well in providing them sustainable access to clean water. To determine the feasibility of this approach in the region’s more urban areas that have much larger and more transient populations and different social dynamics, the Aga Khan University’s Institute for the Study of Muslim Civilisations in London has launched a study whose results will hopefully be of interest not only to the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat and the Government of Gilgit-Baltistan but also actors elsewhere in the developing world where access to water is a problem.