of Kyrgyz government leaders and Osh civic officials. Photo: AKDN / Michail Romanyuk Though a young school, Princess Zahra cited it as "a shining example of Aga Khan Schools around the world," upholding a tradition that has been a hallmark of the Aga Khan Education Services in East Africa, South Asia and Central Asia for more than a century. It teaches time-tested academic subjects and skills, building on the Central Asian tradition of encouraging students to master multiple languages. The school also gives great importance to fostering in students the qualities of inquisitiveness, critical thinking, and problem solving, in an ethical framework. "Some Aga Khan Schools around the world have survived through very difficult situations in terms of natural disasters, revolutions, wars, tremendous upheavals, social upheavals and social change," noted Princess Zahra. "But in all circumstances, schools strived to achieve a quality education and teacher training and to provide all of the children ... with a pluralistic and diverse and international education which will give them -- as my father said ten years ago -- 'an access to international and modern world.'" Multimedia Fifty years after he became the Imam of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims, the global Jamat commemorated Mawlana Hazar Imam's Golden Jubilee with special events and activities around the world that took place between 11 July 2007 -- 13 December 2008. The Ismaili Centres are symbolic markers of the permanent presence of the Ismaili community in the regions in which they are established. Architecturally unique, each building