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The Aga Khan arrived in Tajikistan on Sunday as part of six-day visit to that country and its mountainous neighbour, Kyrgyzstan, where he will lay the cornerstones for two of three campuses for the future University of Central Asia (UCA), the world's first internationally chartered institution of higher education.

The Aga Khan, leader of the world's Ismaili Muslims, has been describing his plans for a university in one of the most remote areas on earth.
The university, high in the heart of the Pamir Mountains of Tajikistan in Central Asia, will be the first specifically for mountain people.

It will serve a population scattered across a vast, isolated area stretching from Afghanistan to China.
Most people there live in poverty and use donkey carts for transport.
Life is a constant struggle against winter storms, hunger and often earthquakes.

L'Aga Khan ha deciso di costruire un'universita' internazionale per le popolazioni montanare centro-asiatiche del Pamir e del Karakorum. L'ultramiliardario, leader della comunita' dei musulmani ismailiti noto in Italia per aver creato l'impero turistico della Costa Smeralda, posera' domani la prima pietra del nuovo complesso su un'altura non lontano da Dushambe, la capitale tagika, tra vallate ancora percorse da carovane di cammelli e contadini a dorso di mulo. 2004-07-06 - 12:02:00