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Dalakhani justified his status as pre-race favourite as he held off a brave challenge from Mubtaker to win the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe at Longchamp. The French Derby winner - ridden by Christophe Soumillon - had to come in from stall 14, wide out on the right, but ran a well-paced race to take the lead with 300m remaining. The three-year-old is owned by the Aga Khan and trained in France by Alain de Royer-Dupre.

The European Union has awarded Euro 20 million (about Rs. 1.3 billion) grant to Aga Khan Education Service, Pakistan (AKES,P) for implementing the second phase of Northern Pakistan Education Programme (NPEP) over the next five years.

The Aga Khan's brilliant three-year-old colt, Dalakhani, was named the Cartier Horse of The Year at the annual end-of-season Cartier Awards dinner held in London last night. His trophies, for Horse of The Year and Three-Year-Old Colt, were picked up by his trainer, Alain de Royer-Dupre and Princess Zahra Aga Khan, who is taking an increasingly-prominent role in her father's breeding empire.

ISLAMABAD - The European Commission (EC) has approved euro 71 million for Pakistan to develop a three-year National Indicative Programme (NIP) in the education sector. In the Northern Areas, an education project with the Aga Khan Foundation worth euro 20 million, is part of the NIP strategy to help increase the number of education centres and qualified women available in developmental activities.

DCB plans Rs 200-cr capital hike -'The bank has no immediate plan for an initial public offering (IPO). 'We have to wait 2-3 years before floating an IPO,'' said Mr John Harris, Head Financial Services of Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development, which holds 49 per cent equity stake in the bank'

CNN) --Izatullah Baig in the small mountain village of Passu is grateful that his children of both sexes had a good education. In Pakistan's Northern Areas, the Aga Khan charitable foundation funds schools and academies for both boys and girls, without discrimination.

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ISLAMABAD: Finance Minister Shuakat Aziz on Monday lauded the achievements of Aga Khan Rural Support Programme (AKRSP) and pledged the government's firm backing to the initiative. 'The government has recently underwritten the $238 million second tranche to the Pakistan Poverty Alleviation Fund, which I am told is a strong supporter of the RSPs and is increasingly becoming a major development partner,' he said.

This day the Aga Khan was in Ascot where His horse 'Alamshar' won the Diamond Stakes: The race was shown live on the satellite channel 'Dubai Sports' and on a local channel here in UK. 'I think Alamshar has improved hugely since the Irish Derby' said Alamshar's owner, the Aga Khan.

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The First Micro Finance Bank Limited (FMFBL), one of the first institutions of its kind to receive a license from the Afghan government, has recently been awarded highest rating by the JCR-VIS, a credit rating agency

Ihre elfjahrige Tochter Theresa Prinzessin zu Leiningen hat gerade ihr Interesse am Internet entdeckt. 'Fur mich bedeutet das, ich muss ihr nun beibringen, wie man surft ohne dabei in die gefahrlichen Chat-Rooms abzudriften, sagt ihre Mutter, die Begum Inaara Aga Khan, die in erster Ehe mit Karl Emich Furst zu Leiningen verheiratet war, bevor Karim Aga Khan, das geistliche Oberhaupt der Ismaeliten, sie 1998 vor den Traualtar fuhrte. 'Bei dieser besonderen Aufgabe unterstutzt mich auch die Organisation Innocence in Danger.'

- Kabul, Afghanistan: Tajwar Sultana School, a girls' high school formerly on a frontline in Kabul, today became the first educational institution in the country with state-of-the-art computing facilities, including multimedia and internet access.

Kabul - Reuters. Afghanistan has come a long way since the overthrow of the Taliban nearly two years ago but it remains far from achieving the stability needed to attract serious investment and wean itself off foreign aid. AKFED's Kabul representative Aly Mawji said most potential investors remained extremely wary, but Prince Karim Aga Khan, the hugely wealthy spiritual head of the world's 15 million Shia Ismaili Muslims, had wanted to lead by example.

The Dushanbe office of the USAID will realize three projects to improve the educational sphere in Tajikistan, in cooperation with the Aga Khan Fund, Open Society Institute-Assistance Fund [of the Soros Foundation], Save the Children (USA), Save the Children (United Kingdom) and the Zdrav/Plus.

ISLAMABAD: The European Commission (EC) has approved 20 million euros (approximately Rs 1.28 billion) grant for Pakistan's educational development, to be undertaken by Aga Khan Foundation Pakistan (AKFP) over the next five years. The grant aims at improving access, quality and sustainability of education for in-school and out-of-school children, with increased gender equity and the participation of communities in the Northern Areas and Chitral (NAC).

Standard Chartered, the UK-based bank, and the First MicroFinance Bank of Afghanistan, majority-owned by the Aga Khan Fund for Economic Development (Akfed), will tomorrow receive licences to set up what will be the first commercial banking operations for a quarter of a century, Anwar-ul-Haq Ahady, the central bank's governor, said in an interview.

- South Africa News24 - Creating a credible democracy in Iraq will be a long and difficult process, according to the Aga Khan, billionaire spiritual leader of the world's 15 million Ismaili Muslims, in an interview to appear on Tuesday. 'Democracy has not been applied in Iraq for a very long time,' he said in Tuesday's edition of the French Roman Catholic newspaper La Croix. 'Putting in place a credible system will take time and will be difficult. Afghanistan proves that,' said Prince Karim Aga Khan, leader of the Ismaili group of Islam's Shi'ite branch.