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Agha Muhammad Ali Khan (17 November 1910-1992) was a distinguished Pakistani police officer and a senior law enforcement official who played a significant role in shaping the police system during Pakistan's formative years. He was the elder brother of General Agha Muhammad Yahya Khan, who served as the President of Pakistan from 1969 to 1971 ...
Prince Rahim Aga Khan (Persian: رحیم آقا خان; born 12 October 1971), known as the Aga Khan V (Persian: آقاخان پنجم), is the 50th Imam, or Hazar Imam, of the Shia Nizari Isma'ili Muslims. He is the second of the Aga Khan IV's four children, and succeeded his
Aagha Ali was born on 4 December 1985 in Lahore, Punjab.. He is the youngest son of the widely known actor of the 1980s, Agha Sikandar (d. 1993), himself the son-in-law of the legendary singer, actor, and producer Inayat Hussain Bhatti, who is thus Agha Ali's maternal grandfather, making him a nephew of the television actor Waseem Abbas as well as a cousin of Ali Abbas and also the grandnephew ...
The Aga Khan, known for his triumphs in horse racing, dazzling wealth and development work around the world, has died in Lisbon at the age of 88, according to the Aga Khan Development Network on X.
According to Farhad Daftary, [5] a scholar of the Isma'ili movement, Aga Khan [6] [7] is an honorific title bestowed on Hasan Ali Shah (1804–1881), the 46th Imām of Nizari Ismai'lis (1817–1881), by the Iranian king Fath-Ali Shah Qajar. [8] The Aga Khan III noted in a famous legal proceeding in India that Aga Khan is not a title but instead ...
As Aga Khan - derived from Turkish and Persian words to mean commanding chief - he is believed by Ismailis to be a direct descendant of the Prophet Mohammad through the prophet's cousin and son-in ...
Hasan Ali Shah (Persian: حسن علی شاه, romanized: Ḥasan ʿAlī Shāh; 1804–1881), known as Aga Khan I (Persian: آقا خان اوّل, romanized: Āqā Khān Awwal), was the 46th imam of the Nizari Isma'ilis. He served as the governor of Kirman and a prominent leader in Iran and later in the Indian subcontinent.
Aqa Ali Shah became Imam of the Ismailis upon the death of his father in 1881, [1] also inheriting his father's title of Aga Khan. Aga Khan II maintained the cordial ties that his father had developed with the British and was appointed to the Bombay Legislative Council when Sir James Fergusson was the governor of Bombay. [1]