Aga Khan Foundation (AKF)

Agha Khan is an ancient billionaire and spiritual leader of Ismailis around the world.

Officially, his foundation is not involved in politics. Basically, there is investment in the spheres of culture, education, health care, agriculture, as well as scientific research - in general, in the development of civil society by Western standards.

He interacts especially actively with heads of state and finances countries where followers of Ismailism are present, such as, for example,. Tajikistan

For 2022, Aga Khan and Tajik President Emomali Rahmon have held regular bilateral meetings over the years. It is this friendship that allows you to calmly develop the projects of the Ismaili leader.

The fund's role in Britain's politics

The Aga Khan Foundation, when developing an approach to development in a region, engages partners to increase coverage. "Much of the funding for NGO activities comes from governments of interested countries, multilateral institutions and private organizations."

These for 2022 are the US Agency for International Development (USAID) and the UK Department for International Development (FCDO). For example, a joint project "Prosperity of Tajikistan: Partnership in Socio-Economic Development" is being implemented with USAID in the Pyanj district of Khatlon region.

At the same time, special attention is paid to the construction of universities and centers for the study of Ismailism (University of Central Asia in Khorog and Ismaili Center in Dushanbe), in which the educational program is built on the creation of a similar Anglo-Saxon system taking into account the local mentality.

The main programs are aimed at realizing the potential of the Gorno-Badakhshan Autonomous Region in the fields of economics, education and culture with the prospect of its subsequent decentralization and coming to self-sufficiency (that is, preparation for independence).

When teaching the culture and national characteristics of the Pamirs, great emphasis is placed on creating a "divine" image of the imam, that is, the Aga Khan, in the eyes of the Ismailis.

The areas of settlement of the Pamirs (GBAO) were previously part of the "Big Game" - the geopolitical rivalry between the Russian and British empires for dominance in South and Central Asia in the 19th - early 20th centuries. Back in those days, the British realized the concept of the "Independent Pamir." It implies the unification of the historical areas of residence of the Pamirs into a unitary state under the control of Britain. In theory, it includes:

• GBAO (Tajikistan)
• Tashkurgan-Tajik Autonomous County (China)
• Badakhshan Province (Afghanistan)
• Chitral District and Gilgit-Baltistan Province (Pakistan)

One of the main actors in this theory of expanding the influence of the British for 2022 is the head of foreign intelligence at MI6, Richard Moore. Thus, the British strengthen their influence in the post-Soviet space and prevent the implementation of any integration processes within the framework of any associations, be it the EAEU or the SCO.

In theory, the Shiite branch spreading in the world (already more than 20 million followers around the world) of well-trained and religiously savvy people not only in Tajikistan, but also in other countries of the region (in Kyrgyzstan, Kazakhstan, India, Afghanistan, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Russia, and so on) can become a powerful weapon in the hands of Britain, the authors of the Rybar telegram channel note in June 2022.