The spiritual leader of the Ismaili community and is known for its development work around the world, the last rites of Prince Karim al -Husseini will be held in Lisbon on Saturday.
He died on Tuesday at 888. A ceremony to harass his successor is scheduled for next week.
Private last rites will be performed in front of several hundred guests at the Ismaili Community Center in Central Lisbon.
“This is a private event, not a major public event … it will be short and dignity,” Nagib Kerder, a senior adviser to the Ismaili community, told Thursday.
Muttafi Khan established the World Head Office of the Ismaili community in Lisbon in 2015.
Prince Karim was inaugurated in 1957, Nizari was the 49th hereditary Imam of the Ismailis, a branch of Shi’ite Islam with millions of followers, especially in Central and South Asia, Africa and the Middle East.
His eldest son, 53 -year -old Rahim Husseini, will replace him and take the title of Aga Khan Wei.
The inauguration of the new Aga Khan will be held on Tuesday morning at the Lisbon Community Headquarters.
“It will be a private event. This is a ceremony to identify the affiliation of the new Imam.
International Jet Setter – who had British, French, Swiss and Portuguese citizenship – put millions of people to help people in the poorest parts of the world.
“If you travel to a developing world, you see that poverty is a driver of frustration, and there is a possibility that any source will be taken,” he said. New York Times In a rare interview in 2007.
By helping the poor through business, he told the newspaper, “We are creating protection against extremism”.
Government announced the day of swell
The government announced a day of national mourning in Pakistan on Saturday on the occasion of the last rites.
According to a cabinet division notification, “expressing deep grief over the department of the government and the people of Pakistan, Prince Karim Agha Khan, the Prime Minister on Saturday, the 8th of national mourning in Pakistan. One day, on February 2025, on the occasion of the last rites of greatness.
The national flag will fly half of the country on February 8.
Prime Minister Shahbaz Sharif also condoled Prince Rahim Agha Khan on the death of his father.
Premier said in a Post On the X, “spoke to Prince Rahim Agha Khan to express his deep condolences on his greatness. A true friend of Pakistan, he brought many lives with his insightful leadership, and global development, education. , His contribution to health and humanitarian efforts will always be remembered.
Fourth of the life of fire Khan
Prince Shah Karim al -Husseini was born on December 13, 1936 in Geneva and spent his early childhood in Nairobi, Kenya.
He later returned to Switzerland, studying at a special Lee Rosie School before going to the United States to study Islamic history in Harvard.
When his grandfather Sir Sultan Mohmood Shah Agha Khan died in 1957, he became the Imam of the Ismailis at the age of 20.
As derived from the commanding chief derived from Aga Khan-Turki and Persian words-he was the fourth holder of the title that was actually given to the great grandfather of the Persian Emperor in the 1830s when the latter was the daughter of the emperor. Was married
The role includes providing divine guidance to the Ismaili community, whose members live in Central Asia, the Middle East, South Asia, all in Sahara Africa, Europe and North America.
After the death of his father in May 1960, Aga Khan initially considered whether to continue the long tradition of racing and breeding of his family.
But in his first season, he was bowed after winning the French owners’ championship.
“I have come to love it,” he said in a 2013 interview with the Vanity Fair. “This is a very interesting, a permanent challenge. Every time you sit down and give up, you are playing chess games with nature.
His stables and riders wearing their emerald green silk lori, enjoyed great achievements with horses like marine stars, which won Epsom Derby and 2,000 guinea. And Sunder, who also won the Epsom Derby, Irish Derby and Perks DL Arc D Trump in the same year, 2000.
But perhaps his most famous horse was Shergar, who won Apsum Derby, Irish Derby and King George before being kidnapped in February 1983 from Ireland’s Bali Mency Stud Form.
Demand for ransom, with the Mafia, former Libyan leader Mamar Gaddafi and IRA were all suspected. No money was paid, and no horse was found.
Aga Khan established the Aga Khan Development Network in 1967. A group of international development agencies have provided 80,000 people to help build schools and hospitals and provide electricity to millions of people in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia.
It mixed its development works in a private business, for example a pharmaceutical company in Uganda, a bank and a fish net factory.
“Many people are divided between spiritual and material. The East and West; the Vanity Fair writes in their 2013 article that Muslims and Christians.
She was married twice in 1969 to former British model Sarah Crook Pool, with her daughter and two sons. The couple divorced in 1995.
In 1998, he married German -born Gabriel Zoo Lenjen, with whom his son was. The couple divorced in 2014.
