Prince Rahim Husseini Agha Khan Wei was named the 50th spiritual leader of the Ismaili community on Wednesday, According to Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN) X.
At the age of 88 on Tuesday, after the death of his father, Prince Karim al -Husseini, Agha Khan IV in Lisbon, after his successor.
“Prince Rahim al -Husseini Awad Khan Wei was named today’s 50th hereditary Imam of Shiite Ismaili Muslims, after the will of his late father, Prince Karim al -Husseini, who died in Lisbon. It has been said yesterday, Portugal at the age of 88, “the statement said.
He said that in his history of 1,400 years, the Ismailis were led by a living, hereditary Imam. Ismaili lives in more than 35 countries and has 12 to 15 million.
Born on October 12, 1971, a US-educated, Swiss-based Rahim Agha Khan IV’s eldest son and his first wife, Princess Salima-Nari Sarah Crocker Pool, a former British model. The couple had one daughter and two sons together.
Rahim has two sons through his wedding with former American fashion model Kendra Spears.
According to the website, he served on the boards of many agencies of the AGA Khan Development Network and headed the Environment and Climate Committee.
He said, “Prince Rahim is particularly concerned about the Acaden campaign to save the environment and reduce the effects of climate change,” he said. He also highlighted his attention to the work of the organization to solve the needs.
Founded in 1967, 80,000 people in the AKDN group of international development agencies help build schools and hospitals and provide electricity to millions of people in the poorest parts of Africa and Asia.
Immediately after the death of Prince Khan IV, he suffered condolences, world leaders remembered their humanitarian efforts.
The 49th hereditary imam or spiritual leader of the world’s 15 million Ismailis, his name, also became synonymous with the owner of the race horse, in which his most famous Shergar was his famous lion.
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”.
Prince Rahim awarded Pakistan’s top civilian honors
Prince Rahim was Agha Khan Were awarded During a visit to Pakistan last year, President Asif Ali Zardari with the nation’s top citizen Award, Mark-Pakistan.
The award recognizes those who have served the most discrimination to Pakistan.
Note the role of Prince Rahim’s AGA Khan Fund for Economic Development and the Chair of the Executive Committee of the Chair of the AKDN Environment and the Country Committee, the award quoted: “Prince Rahim Agha Khan , Through many of his leadership roles, within the AGA Khan Development Network, for more than a quarter century, his efforts to improve the quality of life of people in the territories affected by the resources of Asia and Africa Dedicated.
“In assuring that their personal engagement that the poor and backward classes maintain a multi -faceted legacy, keeping the economic, health, educational and cultural well -being and responding to modern needs, to maintain a multi -faceted legacy. In Pakistan, in Pakistan, the founder of the nation.
