The Imam summoned a convention of the Ismaili delegates in Cairo to review the occasion of the Platinum Jubilee upon the completion of 70 years of his Imamate. Dewan Eboo Pirbhai attended the conference. The delegates mutually discussed in the morning and met the Imam at evening on March 15, 1951 in Lodge Semiramese. The Imam emphasized that the programme needs to be labored out on the pattern of Golden and Diamond Jubilees to improve the social and economical conditions of the Ismailis. The Imam, Mata Salamat and Prince Aly Khan invited them on subsequent day for a lunch at Mohamedali Membership and graced them with a photograph.
The Imam deputed him to Aden as his High Commissioner with Missionary Jaffer Ali Muhammad Sufi (1908-1963) on December 12, 1955. In Aden, there have been hardly 20 to 25 Ismailis. Dewan Sir Eboo Pirbhai held a meeting with the governor and solved the problems faced by the Ismailis. With his efforts, the sites for the Jamatkhana and a graveyard could possibly be organized for the first time in Aden.
He was in an extended line of community leaders in Africa, Asia and Middle East and devoted lifetime companies for the progress of the jamat worldwide. This encompassed lying sound institutional foundations for the upliftment of the jamat with a community of faculties, hospitals, well being clinics, business cooperatives, housing societies, funding trusts and an insurance firm.
He was among the many group of supporters of the efforts initiated by Imam Sultan Muhammad Shah, and since continued by Hazar Imam, for the tutorial development of the indigenous East African Muslims as the most effective approach of making certain their full participation within the national lifetime of their countries.
During the Takhat Nashini programme of the Imam in East Africa in 1957, he rendered excellent companies in Kenya, Uganda and Tanganyika. He additionally accompanied the Imam in 1958 on the go to of Europe, Canada and United State. He was made the Vice-Chairman of the first World Ismailia Socio-Financial Convention held in Karachi on December 15, 1964 and likewise addressed on behalf of the fifty four delegates from African nations like Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Republic of Malagasy, Republic of Congo, Rawandi, Burundi, South Africa, Portuguese East Africa, Aden, and so on.
In 1972, the Ismailis had been expelled from Uganda. On that juncture, he is credited to have settled many of the Ismailis in Canada in line with the guidance of the Imam.
He also served as Chairman of the Jubilee Insurance Co. since 1953, a Senior Director of the IPS and TPS and the Diamond Jubilee Trust, Chairman of the Aga Khan Basis (Kenya) since 1980, Chairman of H.H. The Aga Khan Shia Imami Ismaili Supreme Councils for Africa, Canada, United States and Western Europe since 1973, the member of the Board of Governors of the Institute of Ismaili Research, London, and the Chairman of the Ismaili International Leaders' Discussion board since 1977.
He attended the fourth International Assessment Assembly of the world Ismailia Associations in Bombay as its Chairman on January 13, 1982.
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