MONTREAL, April 2 /CNW Telbec/ – Premier Jean Charest will be the Guest of Honor at the Gala Reconnaissance to be held on Thursday, April 3rd, to commemorate 15 years of Afghan Ismaili settlement in the province of Quebec.
This event is being organized by His Highness Prince Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Council for Canada (Ismaili Council) and will take place at 7PM at Le Windsor, 1170 Peel Street.
In September 1992, the Government of Quebec and the Ismaili Council signed a unique protocol agreement which laid the foundation for the collaborative work that resulted in the settlement and integration of the first 350 Afghan Ismaili refugees. Based on the success of this first protocol, the Government of Quebec signed five additional protocols with the Ismaili Council between April 1994 and August 2001 to settle additional refugees in Quebec. In all, over 1,600 Afghan refugees settled in Quebec under these protocols.
In the years following these protocols, the sponsored refugees have, in turn, sponsored their family members under the government’s family reunification program. Currently, more than 5,000 Afghan Ismailis are successfully settled in six cities in Quebec.
During this event, “we want to express our gratitude to the Government of Quebec for its support in allowing us to sponsor our Afghan brothers and sisters who were in distress” said Nizar Sultan, Chief Executive Officer of the Ismaili Council. “Gala Reconnaissance is a tribute to the courage, determination and resilience of the Afghan refugees, to the generosity of the host society, and to the many individuals and civil society organizations that contributed to this successful settlement story. Quebec is now the permanent home of many Afghan Ismailis and they are contributing fully to Quebec society.”
Gala Reconnaissance is occurring during the year of the Golden Jubilee of His Highness the Aga Khan as the Imam (spiritual leader) of the Shia Imami Ismaili Muslims. The Aga Khan is also Founder and Chairman of the Aga Khan Development Network (AKDN), a group of nine development agencies with mandates ranging from health and education to architecture, culture, microfinance, disaster reduction, rural development, the promotion of private-sector enterprise and the revitalization of historic cities.
For further information on the AKDN, please visit http://www.akdn.org. The Ismaili Muslims are a community of ethnically and culturally diverse peoples living in more than 25 countries around the world, united in their allegiance to the Aga Khan as the 49th hereditary Imam and direct descendant of Prophet Muhammad (peace be upon Him). For further information on the
Ismaili community, please visit http://www.TheIsmaili.org
Ismailimail 
YA ALI MADAD
EVEN I HAVEN´T READ MUCH BUT STILL I WOULD SAY ITS A GREAT AND I HAVE MANY MANY PRAYERS FOR AFGHANIS ISMAILIES MAY MOWLA GIVE THEM MORE COURAGE FOR EACH AND EVERY AFGHANI ISMAILIES WITH THEIR HEALTH WEALTH AND HAPPINESS AND MAY MOWLA GIVE THEM STRENGTH TO HELP AFGHANISTANI BUILD THEIR OWN COUNTRY FOR OTHER BROTHERS AND SISTERS EVEN THEY ARE NOT ISMAILIES BUT THEY ARE HUMAN BEING LIKE US. AMEEN AMEEN. IF ANY THING IS WRONG IF ANY BODY HAVE ANY COMMENT PLEASE DO WRITE WITHOUT ANY HESITATION I WILL APRECIATE THANKS.
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