Prince Karim Al-Husseini, Aga Khan IV, was the “greatest statesman of our time,” Lord Sarfaraz, Conservative Member of the UK House of Lords, tells Al Arabiya News as he pays tribute to the Ismaili leader following his death.
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00:00It's been announced that the Aga Khan's funeral will take place in Lisbon on Saturday.
00:06And just before we crossed you, I was reading a tribute to the Aga Khan that you yourself
00:10wrote.
00:11You described him as having been a hero of yours, and I was wondering why that was.
00:15Well, I've been a huge admirer of his work for many, many years.
00:20I mean, what is there not to admire?
00:23He was one of the greatest statesmen of our time.
00:28Yet he had no state, he had no land, no government, no army, yet he had this incredible influence
00:36and goodwill all around the world.
00:39He was a master diplomat, built up relationships with heads of state, heads of government,
00:46with our own king.
00:47He'd be as comfortable in the White House as he would in a village in the Himalayas
00:53with a member of his community.
00:55And he built this incredible development network, which is unlike any other international
01:02organization and benefits millions of people every single day, not from within his community,
01:09but everyone across the developing world.
01:12And the sort of things that they deliver, hospitals, schools, microfinance programs,
01:17universities, these are world class.
01:20So they're not sort of low budget projects in developing countries.
01:24These are world class institutions.