Yasmin Aga Khan Puns

Details of Consultations by the Committee for Draft National Education Policy(July 2017 onwards)

The following is an inventory of various organizations, autonomous bodies, institutions, ministries, eminent persons and individuals with whom the Committee or any member has met and interacted.

I. Ministries / Institutions / Associations / Organizations

1. Aga Khan Foundation
2. Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad
3. Akshay Patra Foundation
4. All India Council for Technical Education
5. All India Management Association
6. All India Secondary Teachers Association
7. Anjuman-I-Islam
8. Associated Chambers of Commerce of India
9. Association of Healthcare Providers India, Bengaluru
10. Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi
11. Azim Premji University
12. Bharath Shikshana Mandal
13. Bharatiya Shiksha Shodh Sansthan, Lucknow
14. Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India
15. Center for Contemporary Studies – Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
16. Confederation of Indian Industry
17. Consortium of Christian Minority Higher Education Institutions
18. Darul Uloom Deoband
19. Department of Higher Education, MHRD
20. Department of Legal Affairs, New Delhi
21. Department of School Education and Literacy, MHRD
22. Education Promotion Society of India, New Delhi
23. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry
24. Indian Academy of Sciences
25. Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi
26. Indian Council of Historical Research
27. Indian Council of Philosophical Research
28. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad
29. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru
30. Indian National Academy of Engineering
31. Indian National Science Academy
32. Indian Society for Training and Development
33. Institute of Chinese Studies
34. International Conference on Harmonisation
35. International Institute of Information Technology, Bengaluru
36. Librarians from leading Institutions, Bengaluru
37. Maharashtra Cosmopolitan Education Society, Pune
38. Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad
39. Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi
40. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi
41. Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi
42. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, New Delhi
43. Ministry of Women and Child Development, New Delhi
44. Muslim Educational Society
45. National Academy of Sciences
46. National Assessment and Accreditation Council, New Delhi
47. National Association of Software and Services Companies
48. National Council of

I'm a journalist researching something around the Aga Khan and I want to learn about him - who should I read? Who should I talk to?

(my post is deleted In r/ismailis, so im posting here)

”In Mumbai (April 3, 1893), Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah referred to alcohol as abominable and “the greatest of all sins” – even more sinful than idol worshiping or killing a believer.”

Source: https://ask.ismailignosis.com/article/26-is-drinking-allowed-in-ismailism

In that link, there are many more quotes of Aga Khan III and Aga Khan IV harshly criticizing drinking alcohol.

If Aga Khan III said drinking alcohol is more sinful than idol worshiping or killing a believer, then why did he paid for thousands of champagne for thousands of people in parties?

“On September 13, 1937, the Eighteenth Assembly had celebrated the opening of the magnificent new Assembly Hall. The League Palace cost $15,000,000. The new Council Chamber was decorated with murals by Sert, donated by the Spanish Republic, depicting the liberation of mankind from tyranny, intolerance, and injustice. Aga Khan supplied 2,500 bottles of champagne.” Schuman, F. L. (1948) International Relations. p.324.

“He was chairman of the British Indian delegation to the Round Table Conference in London; presided over the All-India, All-Parties Moslem Conference; led the Indian delegation to the League of Nations five times and served as the organization’s president. To mark his election to the presidency he gave the biggest party in Geneva’s history – 3,000 guests and 2,500 bottles of vintage champagne.“ “It must be with some difficulty that those who know the sporting Aga Khan of the days at the races and the nights at the champagne parties (he is reputed to have drunk nothing but champagne for many years), are able to associate him with the Aga Khan who prays for an hour a day and ministers to the spiritual needs of the millions of Ismailis who believe him to be divine.” McKeown, R. “Those Incredible Khans of Cannes”. Ottawa Citizen. 21 January 1956.

We see that Aga Khan IV also paid for many champagnes for hundreds of people in his party

“The Aga’s 21st birthday party waxed gayly until 5 a.m. at the Savoy Hotel and the spiritual ruler of 20 million Ismaili Moslems kept the champagne flowing to the end for the 300 guests.” “Aga Khan Dates Mexican Beauty”. Beaver Valley Times. 16 December 1957.

Aga Khan IV also sells alcohols in his hotels: [https://ask.ismailignosis.com/article/36-why-do-serena-hotels-and-the-aga-khan-museum-serve-alcohol](https://ask.ismailignosi

In Lasala v. Lloyds TSB Bank, Piacentini-Moore was a manager at Lloyds bank in Geneva and helped Lycourgos Kyprianou launder money in relation to securities fraud in the US. Kyprianou was running a 'pump and dump' scheme for a software company in Denver. Piacentini-Moore in Switzerland acted as Kyprianou's account manager, and subsequently, a number of suspicious were opened. Money being sent to those accounts was directed to Piacentini-Moore without reference to the remitter's name. Additionally, a false document was created in response to an audit, signed by Piacentini-Moore, lying about the amount of money in Kyprianou's accounts. After Kyprianou was indicted for money laundering, money was transferred out of the accounts by Piacentini-Moore, making it difficult to trace the fraud.

Lycourgos Kyprianou was found guilty in United States Security and Exchange Commission vs Lycourgos Kyprianou and United States of America vs. Lycourgos Kyprianou

Lasala vs. Lloyds was dismissed by the Judge in New York because he believed the case should be tried in a different court. This seems to be the only publically accessible document related to this particular case.

Jane Piacentini-Moore is only one of two AKF board of directors who aren't part of Aga's family. He is directly involved in Aga Khan's offshore companies which manage his private island and yachts. Both non-Aga Khan boards of directors are involved in Aga's personal business.

https://archive.is/nAJbt

>Britain has long been developing its own program for the countries of Central Asia. A full decade ago, the British parliament formed a working group for this region in which more than twenty members of the Lords and Commons took part. Its strategy was based on strengthening economic and military-political co-operation with the Central Asian countries.

>Britain makes active use of NGOs working in the field of education to project London’s ideological influence. One of these is the University of Central Asia, founded by the Aga Khan Foundation (headquartered in London) and having branches in Kazakhstan (Tekeli), Tajikistan (Khorog), and Kyrgyzstan (Naryn). Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of the Ismailis, is well-known for his and his family’s close ties to the British intelligence community, and himself takes an active part in advancing Britain’s political ends.

>Vladimir Odintsov, political observer, writing for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

Russian foreign intelligence directly runs this journal, NEO which is attacking Aga Khan.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-covid-disinformation-idUSKBN2B0016

>The State Department’s Global Engagement Center, set up to counter propaganda and disinformation campaigns, identified the three outlets, the spokeswoman said.

>News Front is controlled by Russia’s federal security service, the center found. New Eastern Outlook and Oriental Review are directed and controlled by the Russian foreign intelligence service.

>A fourth outlet, Rebel Inside, controlled by the Russian army, was also named by the center but is largely dormant, the spokeswoman said.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-Russia%E2%80%99s-Disinformation-and-Propaganda-Ecosystem_08-04-20.pdf

https://euromaidanpress.com/2019/07/26/russian-propagandas-fake-western-journalists-who-exist-only-on-paper/

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-journalists-who-exist-only-on-paper/

Russia supported Tajikistan's government against the Pamiris during Tajikistan's civil war and I recall seeing another article where a Tajik security chief mentioned foreign backed separatists in Gorno-Badakhshan and said Tajikistan will stop them with Russia's help. He was obviously referring to Pamiri people.

https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-unconquerable-gorno-badakhshan-region/29534057.html

https://minorityrights.org/minorities/pamiris/

It seems like Russia is accusing Aga Khan of working with f

Moving houses and found an old pic of Aga Khan. Was about to throw in garbage but then thought maybe there is a Farman about disposing ex Aga con pics….anyone have stories or advice on how to dispose

Also Aga Khan: "Everybody makes mistakes. There is no such thing as a perfect world or life."

Brainwashed Ismaili: But mawla bapa...but...mawla you are perfect....

1957: Patricia Rawlings (source)

1959: Sylvia Casablancas (source: Daily Herald July 30, 1959)

1959: Tracy Reed (source 1, source 2)

1960s: Patricia Deblave (source)

1960s: Anouchka Von Meks (source: Ismailignosis)

1960s: Dolores von Furstenberg Guinness (source: Ismailignosis)

1969: Sarah Poole (married for 25 years but separated after a few years after marriage)

1970s-1990s: Ariane Soldati (source) (extra-martial)

1970s-1990s: Milena Maffei (source) (extra-martial)

1970s-1990s: Pilar Goess (source) extra-martial)

1998: Gabriele Renate Homey Thyssen (married for 13 years, although they separated after Aga was caught cheating after 6 years)

2000s: Beatrice von der Schulenburg (widely reported extra-marital)

2004: Rose Witchenstine (source) (extra-marital)

I am a Pakistani American who graduated from high-school in 2020, while simultaneously having done a year of University courses then.

Now I am a full time uni student, but want to look into pursuing medical school in Pakistan.

I’ve begun researching what this process may look like but want more clear guidance from someone who has/is attending AKU. Or more conveniently, is an international student who went through a similar situation as I might.

Link to Part 1 of this series

• SMS considered Hitler to be an admirable person

"His Highness remarked after a meeting: 'Hitler is a very great man. Aga Khan was so hypnotized by Hitler that nothing else mattered."

Source: His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam of the Ismailis by Harry Greenwall

"He (SMS) visited the Fuhrer in 1937. Hitler openly explained his plans for conquering Europe. The Aga Khan liked him very much..."

Source: Aga Khan, Die Memoiren des Aga Khan: Welten und Zeiten (Munich: Desch, 1954), 344.

"French-born Begum Aga Khan regarded Hitler as the most attractive man she had ever met."

Source: New Zealand Journal of History 9(1),82

• SMS wrongly predicted that Hitler would remain peaceful

"'Hitler is a pillar of peace,' declared Sir Sultan Muhammad Shah....'Why? Because peace is essential of all Hitler's plans for rebuilding the nation.'"

Source: Travellers in the Third Reich by Julia Boyd

"According to sportswriter Quintin Gibley, who had become friends with Aga Khan during the 1930s, the Aga Khan initially saw Hitler as a "firm pillar of peace."

Source: Taking Shergar: Thoroughbred racing's most cold case by Milton Toby (the reference to this quote is a book by Gibley)

"The Aga Khan set out to prove that Germany would not resort to war... affirmed that Hilter's annexation of Austria was 'a historical necessity.'"

Source: His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam of the Ismailis by Harry Greenwall

"'We are told that in Mein Kampf Hitler wrote this and that,' the Aga Khan went on. 'But every statesman . . . has said things and suggested courses that he never contemplated carrying out when in power.'"

Source: The Aga Khan's by Will Frischauer

"Broadcasting on B.B.C. radio, the Aga Khan suddenly voiced support for Hitler's demand that Austria and Nazi Germany should be united"

Source: The Aga Khan's by Will Frischauer

"May 26th, 1938, the Aga Khan made a statement to a London newspaper, saying: 'I am an old-fashioned democrat, neither a Fascist, Nazi, nor communist, but the only way democracy can survive will be through organization and planning, like in Germany and in Italy. Whether Germany is inside or outside the League of Nations - she is a pillar of peace."

Source: His Highness the Aga Khan, Imam of the Ismailis by Harry Greenwall

• **Hitler used SMS as an agent,

1. SMS's letter to the Nazis offering support (1942)

"If you warn me 10 or 15 days in advance, I will have 30,000 armed Arabs, among my most followers, who will shoot the Gaullists in the back."

ACTUAL letter from SMS to the Nazis (with translation)

2. Aga Khan authored "Faith in Hitler"

Faith in Hitler

3. The British were aware of Aga Khan's ties to Hitler even before the release of his letter.

"In 1942 we took note of the Aga Khan's continued residence in Switzerland during the war, of his failure to return to British territory, of his visits to Vichy France (Cannes), of his known support of the policy of appeasement and of other vague rumors of throwing doubt on his loyalty."

Source

The Viceroy of India was also aware of this matter

4. Why did the British not take action against SMS? He was too influential

"If it (prosecution) were successful, he would be regarded not only by his followers but many Muhammadans, as a martyr and a victim of British vindictiveness. Consequently, I cannot see what advantages would be gained by a prosecution."

Source

"Is this a suitable time to launch a prosecution against a man who, whatever may be thought of him an individual, is the recognized head of a sect of Muslims widely spread over various countries of Western Asia and East Africa and is a very prominent figure in the Muslim world?"

Source

(sources are declassified British documents)

5. German archives

"The Aga Khan told Prince Max Hohenlohe in July 1940 in Switzerland that he and the former khedive of Egypt had agreed to drink a bottle of Champagne together on the day that Hitler spent his first night in the Windsor Castle." Also, German archives indicate that top Nazi commanders wanted to cut ties with SMS in 1940 and 1941.

Source by Milan Hauner (Professor at UW-Madison, Ph.D. from Cambridge University)

Additional source

6. Aga Khan's relationship with Hitler was widely reported by the press at the time

["Like so many others, the Aga Khan was greatly impressed by Hitler's personality and wrote an open letter to a London newspaper, advising England to make an agreement

The media has been reporting "15-20 million" Ismailis since the 1940s. All articles from SMS's time and early years of Karim reported these figures. This number was never refuted by SMS or Karim. SMS was very vocal and displeased with the image of him and Aly Khan portrayed in the newspapers -- he said this in an interview. Karim was also not happy about the portrayal of his grandfather and father in the media and hired Fred Rosen as his PR agent in his early days to clean up his image and portray his image as a "respected voice on third world development issues" in the media. This is just to say that the Aga Khans kept a close eye on what was being reported in newspapers.

The world population has increased by 174% since 1950, while the Ismaili population has decreased, instead of increasing multiple folds, if there were 15-20 million Ismailis in the 50s.

Hella Picks in her new book wrote that she did not believe the Ismaili population numbers. Hella Picks was hired by AK's PR team (headed by Fred Rosen) to write a biography on AK. She followed Karim for a whole year and traveled a lot with him. The book was never published.

Let's estimate how many Ismailis actually exist:

US: 70k

Canada: 150k (1 million total Muslims in Canada)

Europe: 150k

Pakistan: 500k (According to BBC)

India: 500k

Bangladesh: 200K

Afghanistan: 200k (150K in 1993, as reported Central Asian Survey)

Tajikistan: 300K (U.S. state department reported that 3% of Tajikistan are Shia - this assumes every single Shia is Ismaili)

Kenya: 8K (source)

Syria: 28K (Official Syrian census)

UAE: 2.5K (Gulf News)

Tanzania: 40K (source)

Countries that I have not listed and accounting for inaccuracies in the above estimates: 1 million

Let's add some more for fun: 1 million

Total: 4 million

Missing about 11 million Ismailis.

I'm a journalist researching something around the Aga Khan and I want to learn about him - who should I read? Who should I talk to?

Details of Consultations by the Committee for Draft National Education Policy(July 2017 onwards)

The following is an inventory of various organizations, autonomous bodies, institutions, ministries, eminent persons and individuals with whom the Committee or any member has met and interacted.

I. Ministries / Institutions / Associations / Organizations

1. Aga Khan Foundation

2. Akhil Bharatiya Vidyarthi Parishad

3. Akshay Patra Foundation

4. All India Council for Technical Education

5. All India Management Association

6. All India Secondary Teachers Association

7. Anjuman-I-Islam

8. Associated Chambers of Commerce of India

9. Association of Healthcare Providers India, Bengaluru

10. Association of Indian Universities, New Delhi

11. Azim Premji University

12. Bharath Shikshana Mandal

13. Bharatiya Shiksha Shodh Sansthan, Lucknow

14. Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India

15. Center for Contemporary Studies – Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

16. Confederation of Indian Industry

17. Consortium of Christian Minority Higher Education Institutions

18. Darul Uloom Deoband

19. Department of Higher Education, MHRD

20. Department of Legal Affairs, New Delhi

21. Department of School Education and Literacy, MHRD

22. Education Promotion Society of India, New Delhi

23. Federation of Indian Chambers of Commerce & Industry

24. Indian Academy of Sciences

25. Indian Council of Agricultural Research, New Delhi

26. Indian Council of Historical Research

27. Indian Council of Philosophical Research

28. Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad

29. Indian Institute of Science, Bengaluru

30. Indian National Academy of Engineering

31. Indian National Science Academy

32. Indian Society for Training and Development

33. Institute of Chinese Studies

34. International Conference on Harmonisation

35. International Institute of Information Technology, Bengaluru

36. Librarians from leading Institutions, Bengaluru

37. Maharashtra Cosmopolitan Education Society, Pune

38. Maulana Azad National Urdu University, Hyderabad

39. Ministry of Agriculture, New Delhi

40. Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, New Delhi

41. Ministry of Science and Technology, New Delhi

42. Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship, New Delhi

43. Ministry of Women and Child Development, New Delhi

44. Muslim Educational Society

45. National Academy of Sciences

46. National Assessment and Accreditation Council, New Delhi

47. National Association of Software a

https://archive.is/nAJbt

>Britain has long been developing its own program for the countries of Central Asia. A full decade ago, the British parliament formed a working group for this region in which more than twenty members of the Lords and Commons took part. Its strategy was based on strengthening economic and military-political co-operation with the Central Asian countries.

>Britain makes active use of NGOs working in the field of education to project London’s ideological influence. One of these is the University of Central Asia, founded by the Aga Khan Foundation (headquartered in London) and having branches in Kazakhstan (Tekeli), Tajikistan (Khorog), and Kyrgyzstan (Naryn). Aga Khan IV, spiritual leader of the Ismailis, is well-known for his and his family’s close ties to the British intelligence community, and himself takes an active part in advancing Britain’s political ends.

>Vladimir Odintsov, political observer, writing for the online magazine “New Eastern Outlook”.

Russian foreign intelligence directly runs this journal, NEO which is attacking Aga Khan.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-russia-covid-disinformation-idUSKBN2B0016

>The State Department’s Global Engagement Center, set up to counter propaganda and disinformation campaigns, identified the three outlets, the spokeswoman said.

>News Front is controlled by Russia’s federal security service, the center found. New Eastern Outlook and Oriental Review are directed and controlled by the Russian foreign intelligence service.

>A fourth outlet, Rebel Inside, controlled by the Russian army, was also named by the center but is largely dormant, the spokeswoman said.

https://www.state.gov/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/Pillars-of-Russia%E2%80%99s-Disinformation-and-Propaganda-Ecosystem_08-04-20.pdf

https://euromaidanpress.com/2019/07/26/russian-propagandas-fake-western-journalists-who-exist-only-on-paper/

https://euvsdisinfo.eu/the-journalists-who-exist-only-on-paper/

Russia supported Tajikistan's government against the Pamiris during Tajikistan's civil war and I recall seeing another article where a Tajik security chief mentioned foreign backed separatists in Gorno-Badakhshan and said Tajikistan will stop them with Russia's help. He was obviously referring to Pamiri people.

https://www.rferl.org/a/tajikistan-unconquerable-gorno-badakhshan-region/29534057.html

https://minorityrights.org/minorities/pamiris/

It seems like Russia is accusing Aga Khan of working with f