Dear All LIF IIS AKDN & Noorani family
Ya Ali Madad,
Further evidence, and urgent appeal regarding the unlawful closure of the Versova Jamatkhana in Mumbai without authority from Mawlana Hazar Imam. (Also Coventry Dholka & others)
On a Facebook Live broadcast, Mr. Nizar Daredia (resident of London, currently in Mumbai) provides clear evidence & testimony, naming individuals, institutions, and councils, and giving contact details. Link below
His evidence made publicly and on record, includes also the following:
1. Closure of Versova Jamatkhana by Leaders with no Farman
• The Jamatkhana has been closed without the authority - Farman of Mawlana Hazar Imam. No survey. Now they claim they will served ???!!!!
• Mukhi Saheb of Versova, Mr. Hashim Shroff has confirmed that murids - members in the area should directly contact him for help.
He has shared his phone number publicly and offered to cover travel costs to ensure members are not excluded & abandoned. The council are not helping
2. Neglect of Vulnerable members Murids of the community
• Two named individuals in great need recently passed away without proper support from the councils.
• The Pune Council and South Mumbai Council refused to assist, even withdrawing critical rent support from one Murid he has named suffering from kidney disease. In his final days, he had to depend on donors and private assistance simply to die with dignity.
3. Failure of Council Leaders
• Mr. Daredia has directly named the South Mumbai Council President, Mr. Nazim Hamid as making repeated false blatant excuses (e.g., claiming “surveys” are needed, or citing “upcoming events” such as the birthday of Mawlana Hazar Imam).
• The truth, as Mr. Daredia and the Mukhi Saheb have both made clear, is that the Jamatkhana has been closed, and possibly sold, and the leaders are avoiding accountability and disrespecting the Jamat the Mukhi and Hazar Imam
This is not speculation. These are named and evidenced facts, given openly in public by named individuals, and therefore stand as evidence of Leaders intentional failure, neglect, and dishonesty towards the Jamat they claim and press to support as one Jamat
The culture & pattern here reflects wider concerns across the Jamat worldwide:
• Farmans and the Ismaili Constitution are withheld.
• Vulnerable murids are neglected.
• Decisions are made without authority from the Imam.
• Leadership offers only excuses instead of truth.
Link to pending list below
For this reason, this letter is not only an evidence record but also an appeal to all leaders:
• To the Leaders International Forum (LIF).
• To the Noorani family of Mawlana Hazar Imam.
• To the Presidents, Mukhis, Kamadias, and Councils across India and beyond.
We ask you ALL to act and intervene immediately:
• Restore the Versova Jamatkhana to the Jamat. Other Jamat Khannas
• Ensure dignity, support, and compassion for vulnerable members in line with the Imam’s Farmans.
• End the pattern of excuses, secrecy, and neglect.
We also appeal to members of the Jamat in Mumbai & Global :
• Contact your Mukhi Sahebs for help directly.
• Do not be silenced or misled by excuses.
• Stand together as one Jamat to ensure that Jamatkhanas remain open, accessible, and guided only by the Farmans& authority of Mawlana Hazar Imam.
This situation is a grave breach of Farmans Bayah-trust, accountability, and responsibility.
This requires honesty, courage, and immediate corrective action in accordance with the directions Farmans of Imam including the constitution still witheld
Video broadcast by Nizar from Mumbai
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1Cdf2Mciid/
List of pending items to LIF
viewtopic.php?p=74511#p74511
Ya Ali Madad,
M Chatur
Leaders International Forum - LIF
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Further Letter & reminders to Leaders International Forum - LIF
Dear All, including LIF Huzur IIS Noorani family
Aga Khan Foundation - TheIsmaili- has shared the following statement after its participation at the United Nations General Assembly:
“AKF was proud to participate in the @UN General Assembly last week, where several leaders engaged with partners on shared priorities, including nutrition, climate resilience, and education… For nearly 60 years, AKF has championed community-led solutions to complex development issues, and we are grateful to the many partners who stand with us as we build a future where we all thrive together.”
In response, I share the following tweet:
“#AgaKhan #Ismaili For 60 yrs @akfglobal claims ‘community-led development’. Yet requests for transparency—Farmans, Ismaili Constitution & list of villages truly empowered—still unanswered. @UN @SF4Nutrition @GPforEducation @EnergyAlliance @WorldBank @RockefellerFdn”
These reflect not only my concern, but a broader and persistent reality: repeated requests by members of the Jamat for transparency and disclosure have gone annd still remain unanswered.
Despite Hazar Imam’s - His Highness the Aga Khan’s - explicit guidance - Farmans on openness, accountability, and responsible governance, leaders continue to deliberately withhold eg the Ismaili Constitution and the Farmans from the Jamat, as well as specific information about which villages have truly been enabled through “community-led” development today after 60 years claimed ?
Equally concerning is the lack of transparency regarding the executive boards and officers of each entity, including the Aga Khan Foundation, the Aga Khan Development Network, and the Ismaili Imamat Foundation in Portugal.
While names of certain same group of individuals- leaders appear through media reports or during public visits—such as the recent official engagements in Cairo East Africa and Paris—there remains no open systematic disclosure of the individuals in fact controlling the day to day executive governance and eg filtering communications to and from Imam
When AKF asserts before the United Nations and its partners that it has pursued “community-led development” for 60 years, it is only fair and just to provide verifiable evidence: which communities, which villages, and what measurable empowerment has been achieved?
Without such disclosure, the claim are rhetoric intended to secure funding and partnerships, rather than a faithful upholding f Farmans and Ismaili Constitution-
The Jamat has a right to proof of empowerment participation, inclusivity, and accountability.
The Jamat, deserves no less—especially when the leaders represent and the work is carried out in the name of the Imam and the community.
It is in this spirit of constructive engagement, consistent with Mawlana Hazar Imam’s directions, that I once again call upon the leaders to:
1. Release the Ismaili Constitution and Farmans to the Jamat.
2. Publish a clear record of ALL entities, of the community including their executive non executive de facto boards, officers - the real decision makers
3. Provide verifiable data and list of every Ismaili and other villages and communities that have been enabled to truly leading and managing their own development.
Sixty years of claims now demand sixty years of evidence - as Imam says it is words backed with actions and being the examples to uphold and share including Farmans & constitution
Awaiting a substantive response - list of pending requests
viewtopic.php?p=74511#p74511
Respectfully,
M Chatur
Aga Khan Foundation - TheIsmaili- has shared the following statement after its participation at the United Nations General Assembly:
“AKF was proud to participate in the @UN General Assembly last week, where several leaders engaged with partners on shared priorities, including nutrition, climate resilience, and education… For nearly 60 years, AKF has championed community-led solutions to complex development issues, and we are grateful to the many partners who stand with us as we build a future where we all thrive together.”
In response, I share the following tweet:
“#AgaKhan #Ismaili For 60 yrs @akfglobal claims ‘community-led development’. Yet requests for transparency—Farmans, Ismaili Constitution & list of villages truly empowered—still unanswered. @UN @SF4Nutrition @GPforEducation @EnergyAlliance @WorldBank @RockefellerFdn”
These reflect not only my concern, but a broader and persistent reality: repeated requests by members of the Jamat for transparency and disclosure have gone annd still remain unanswered.
Despite Hazar Imam’s - His Highness the Aga Khan’s - explicit guidance - Farmans on openness, accountability, and responsible governance, leaders continue to deliberately withhold eg the Ismaili Constitution and the Farmans from the Jamat, as well as specific information about which villages have truly been enabled through “community-led” development today after 60 years claimed ?
Equally concerning is the lack of transparency regarding the executive boards and officers of each entity, including the Aga Khan Foundation, the Aga Khan Development Network, and the Ismaili Imamat Foundation in Portugal.
While names of certain same group of individuals- leaders appear through media reports or during public visits—such as the recent official engagements in Cairo East Africa and Paris—there remains no open systematic disclosure of the individuals in fact controlling the day to day executive governance and eg filtering communications to and from Imam
When AKF asserts before the United Nations and its partners that it has pursued “community-led development” for 60 years, it is only fair and just to provide verifiable evidence: which communities, which villages, and what measurable empowerment has been achieved?
Without such disclosure, the claim are rhetoric intended to secure funding and partnerships, rather than a faithful upholding f Farmans and Ismaili Constitution-
The Jamat has a right to proof of empowerment participation, inclusivity, and accountability.
The Jamat, deserves no less—especially when the leaders represent and the work is carried out in the name of the Imam and the community.
It is in this spirit of constructive engagement, consistent with Mawlana Hazar Imam’s directions, that I once again call upon the leaders to:
1. Release the Ismaili Constitution and Farmans to the Jamat.
2. Publish a clear record of ALL entities, of the community including their executive non executive de facto boards, officers - the real decision makers
3. Provide verifiable data and list of every Ismaili and other villages and communities that have been enabled to truly leading and managing their own development.
Sixty years of claims now demand sixty years of evidence - as Imam says it is words backed with actions and being the examples to uphold and share including Farmans & constitution
Awaiting a substantive response - list of pending requests
viewtopic.php?p=74511#p74511
Respectfully,
M Chatur
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Re India further letter and requests to Leaders International Forum - LIF
Dear All, including Noorani Family
I share here a further video by Mr. Nizar Daredia, who is presently in Mumbai, offering further evidence of the culture of disinformation and intimidation by Leaders that continues to harm the Jamat. Watch and listen for yourself. Link below
Mr. Daredia directly addresses leaders & their conduct in India, including a Regional President, She has been instructing volunteers and ladies not to welcome visiting murids or to show them our Jamatkhana and our traditions and that Imam has said not to share videos. Not true
Such visitors, coming from outside India, are treated with suspicion rather than with the love, unity, and hospitality that our Imam has repeatedly guided us to uphold.
Mr. Daredia challenges the claim—attributed to the Council and the Huzur department—that “directives from the Imam” forbid videos or sharing of Farmans & traditions. There are none.
He rightly asks: if such communications exist, where is the proof? Let them be shared openly, with signatures and authenticity. Otherwise, it is nothing but lies.
He reminds the leaders that secrecy, suppression, and falsehoods are in direct contradiction to the Farmans of Mawlana Hazar Imam, who has called on us to demystify the faith, to share knowledge, Farmans constitution and to live with transparency and accountability.
Equally false is the excuse that sharing videos or welcoming visitors could cause “terrorism” against our Jamat. As claimed by this named Regiobal Leader. This has never been the case.
Indeed, in our own official community media outlets the same Leaders regularly publish videos of our faith, accessible to anyone. Why then suppress members of the Jamat
This culture of fear and dishonesty is not only hypocritical but harmful. Leaders preach “One Jamat” in words, while in action they divide, exclude, and marginalise them. Vulnerable murids in India remain without adequate housing, health support, or dignity—despite abundant funds and donor generosity.
Instead of supporting & protecting them, leaders deny them even the basic right to even access the Constitution and Farmans despite Farmans.
This is further evidence, further testimony, and further appeal:
Stop lying to the Jamat.
Stop suppressing Farmans, the Constitution, and authentic guidance.
Stop intimidating those who welcome others to Jamatkhanas and traditions.
Start treating the Jamat with honesty, love, and respect, as Hazar Imam has repeatedly directed.
It is time for change. Let this testimony from Mumbai be another reminder that silence, secrecy, and fear serve no one—not the Imam, not the institutions, and not the Jamat.
Link
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19pcPRtcxH/
Respectfully,
I share here a further video by Mr. Nizar Daredia, who is presently in Mumbai, offering further evidence of the culture of disinformation and intimidation by Leaders that continues to harm the Jamat. Watch and listen for yourself. Link below
Mr. Daredia directly addresses leaders & their conduct in India, including a Regional President, She has been instructing volunteers and ladies not to welcome visiting murids or to show them our Jamatkhana and our traditions and that Imam has said not to share videos. Not true
Such visitors, coming from outside India, are treated with suspicion rather than with the love, unity, and hospitality that our Imam has repeatedly guided us to uphold.
Mr. Daredia challenges the claim—attributed to the Council and the Huzur department—that “directives from the Imam” forbid videos or sharing of Farmans & traditions. There are none.
He rightly asks: if such communications exist, where is the proof? Let them be shared openly, with signatures and authenticity. Otherwise, it is nothing but lies.
He reminds the leaders that secrecy, suppression, and falsehoods are in direct contradiction to the Farmans of Mawlana Hazar Imam, who has called on us to demystify the faith, to share knowledge, Farmans constitution and to live with transparency and accountability.
Equally false is the excuse that sharing videos or welcoming visitors could cause “terrorism” against our Jamat. As claimed by this named Regiobal Leader. This has never been the case.
Indeed, in our own official community media outlets the same Leaders regularly publish videos of our faith, accessible to anyone. Why then suppress members of the Jamat
This culture of fear and dishonesty is not only hypocritical but harmful. Leaders preach “One Jamat” in words, while in action they divide, exclude, and marginalise them. Vulnerable murids in India remain without adequate housing, health support, or dignity—despite abundant funds and donor generosity.
Instead of supporting & protecting them, leaders deny them even the basic right to even access the Constitution and Farmans despite Farmans.
This is further evidence, further testimony, and further appeal:
Stop lying to the Jamat.
Stop suppressing Farmans, the Constitution, and authentic guidance.
Stop intimidating those who welcome others to Jamatkhanas and traditions.
Start treating the Jamat with honesty, love, and respect, as Hazar Imam has repeatedly directed.
It is time for change. Let this testimony from Mumbai be another reminder that silence, secrecy, and fear serve no one—not the Imam, not the institutions, and not the Jamat.
Link
https://www.facebook.com/share/v/19pcPRtcxH/
Respectfully,
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Further letter & requests Leaders International Forum - LIF
Dear All – LIF, AKDN, AKF, IIS, Huzur, The Ismaili, Nation Media and Members of the Noorani Family,
I write with deep concern regarding the recent statement by the Leaders - media team that “The Ismaili is the sole official source of information for our community, available on all major digital platforms. Providing reliable and accurate information about and for our community”
This statement by the Leaders is at best misleading and incomplete. The Ismaili is not and cannot be described as independent or reliable impartial news for the community. Jamat.
Controlled by the same group, For decades, this media team has been controlled by the same group of leaders who have consistently withheld eg the Ismaili Constitution and the Farmans of Mawlana Hazar Imam. These are the very foundations of our faith and communal governance, yet they have been denied to the Jamat despite Imam’s explicit guidance and reminders to share them with the entire Jamat.
Equally, The Ismaili has ignored legitimate questions raised by murids. It refuses to cover issues of genuine concern and the Murids perspectives & publishes only selective content designed to promote what leadership wishes to highlight. Such an approach silences critical voices and reduces media to public relations rather than truth-seeking.
This is directly contrary to Mawlana Hazar Imam’s guidance and vision for media of a reliable independent media
In his address to the International Press Institute in Nairobi (1979), he affirmed:
“Without reliable information the exercise of free choice is illusory. The press must be independent, it must present facts truthfully and in a balanced way, and it must give expression to differing views.”
These words remain as relevant today as they were then. Without independence, balance, and pluralism of voices, news becomes propaganda.
Mawlana Hazar Imam has also stressed that pluralism is no longer a luxury, it is a survival strategy (Global Centre for Pluralism, 2006). This applies not only to nations but also to our own community institutions. A pluralistic media must give voice to multiple perspectives, include dissenting or questioning voices, and represent the lived realities of all Jamats. When The Ismaili suppresses concerns and refuses to acknowledge questions, it violates the very ethic of pluralism that Imam has taught us is central to our survival and flourishing.
Today, authentic Ismaili news and dialogue are found not through this controlled outlet, but through citizens’ voices on social media, independent forums, and community-led platforms—where evidence is shared and all perspectives are heard.
For example, here is a link to a list of critical questions of the other side - community that The Ismaili has never addressed:
viewtopic.php?p=74555#p74555
Until the Constitution and Farmans are shared as directed by Mawlana Hazar Imam, and until The Ismaili opens itself to independent all sides of news independent accountability and pluralism, it cannot be called independent or reliable.
By calling yourself official or independent does not make you independent
It remains a selective communications arm of leadership—not a true reflection of the Jamat or of Imam’s guidance.
In the spirit of humility and truth, I urge our institutions and all leaders to reflect on these concerns, to align our media with the Imam’s guidance, and to restore trust by ensuring transparency, accountability, and pluralism in the information given to the Jamat.
Awaiting a response and for all the news both sides are fairly impartially and independent and pluralistically reported
My tweet
https://x.com/chaturmahebub/status/1973 ... hqfO552USg
With respect
M Chatur
I write with deep concern regarding the recent statement by the Leaders - media team that “The Ismaili is the sole official source of information for our community, available on all major digital platforms. Providing reliable and accurate information about and for our community”
This statement by the Leaders is at best misleading and incomplete. The Ismaili is not and cannot be described as independent or reliable impartial news for the community. Jamat.
Controlled by the same group, For decades, this media team has been controlled by the same group of leaders who have consistently withheld eg the Ismaili Constitution and the Farmans of Mawlana Hazar Imam. These are the very foundations of our faith and communal governance, yet they have been denied to the Jamat despite Imam’s explicit guidance and reminders to share them with the entire Jamat.
Equally, The Ismaili has ignored legitimate questions raised by murids. It refuses to cover issues of genuine concern and the Murids perspectives & publishes only selective content designed to promote what leadership wishes to highlight. Such an approach silences critical voices and reduces media to public relations rather than truth-seeking.
This is directly contrary to Mawlana Hazar Imam’s guidance and vision for media of a reliable independent media
In his address to the International Press Institute in Nairobi (1979), he affirmed:
“Without reliable information the exercise of free choice is illusory. The press must be independent, it must present facts truthfully and in a balanced way, and it must give expression to differing views.”
These words remain as relevant today as they were then. Without independence, balance, and pluralism of voices, news becomes propaganda.
Mawlana Hazar Imam has also stressed that pluralism is no longer a luxury, it is a survival strategy (Global Centre for Pluralism, 2006). This applies not only to nations but also to our own community institutions. A pluralistic media must give voice to multiple perspectives, include dissenting or questioning voices, and represent the lived realities of all Jamats. When The Ismaili suppresses concerns and refuses to acknowledge questions, it violates the very ethic of pluralism that Imam has taught us is central to our survival and flourishing.
Today, authentic Ismaili news and dialogue are found not through this controlled outlet, but through citizens’ voices on social media, independent forums, and community-led platforms—where evidence is shared and all perspectives are heard.
For example, here is a link to a list of critical questions of the other side - community that The Ismaili has never addressed:
viewtopic.php?p=74555#p74555Until the Constitution and Farmans are shared as directed by Mawlana Hazar Imam, and until The Ismaili opens itself to independent all sides of news independent accountability and pluralism, it cannot be called independent or reliable.
By calling yourself official or independent does not make you independent
It remains a selective communications arm of leadership—not a true reflection of the Jamat or of Imam’s guidance.
In the spirit of humility and truth, I urge our institutions and all leaders to reflect on these concerns, to align our media with the Imam’s guidance, and to restore trust by ensuring transparency, accountability, and pluralism in the information given to the Jamat.
Awaiting a response and for all the news both sides are fairly impartially and independent and pluralistically reported
My tweet
https://x.com/chaturmahebub/status/1973 ... hqfO552USg
With respect
M Chatur