section_path: Nizari Ismaili Imamat/Silver Jubilee Year of Imamat
section_name: Silver Jubilee Year of Imamat
paragraph_text: Silver Jubilee Year of Imamat
  
  From 11 July 1982 to 11 July 1983—to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his accession to the Imamat—many new social and economic development projects were launched. These range from the establishment of the US$450 million international Aga Khan University with its Faculty of Health Sciences and teaching hospital based in Karachi, the expansion of schools for girls and medical centres in the Hunza region (one of the remote parts of Northern Pakistan bordering China and Afghanistan that is densely populated with Nizari Ismailis), to the establishment of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Gujarat, India – and the extension of existing urban hospitals and primary health care centres in Tanzania and Kenya.
  
  From 11 July 1982 to 11 July 1983—to commemorate the 25th anniversary of his accession to the Imamat—many new social and economic development projects were launched. These range from the establishment of the US$450 million international Aga Khan University with its Faculty of Health Sciences and teaching hospital based in Karachi, the expansion of schools for girls and medical centres in the Hunza region (one of the remote parts of Northern Pakistan bordering China and Afghanistan that is densely populated with Nizari Ismailis), to the establishment of the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme in Gujarat, India – and the extension of existing urban hospitals and primary health care centres in Tanzania and Kenya.