Well-known Singaporean intellectual, Professor Kishore Mahboobani is arriving here on Wednesday on a weeklong visit and he will meet Pakistani leaders and intellectuals. He will address higher faculties at the universities and engage in a dialogue on promoting better understanding of world issues between the Pakistani and Singaporean intellectuals.
Kishore Mahbubani is also a seasoned diplomat who has served his country by working in the Singapore foreign service from 1971 to 2004 in the course of which he was also elected President of the UN Security Council by rotation in January 2001 and in may 2002. Currently he is the Dean and Professor in the Practices of Public Policy at Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore.
Mahbubani is also author of several books and has been profiled in the Economist and Time Magazine. Professor Mahbubani has also given several interviews to international TV channels in which he has always given importance to Asia and the Asian values.
Professor Mahbubani, who originally is from Sindh through his parents who migrated to Singapore in 1945, will visit Mithadar and Saddar and then Hyderabad city, to see Savitri building on Hyder Chowk, where he was born. He is expected to pay courtesy visits to Governor Dr Ishratul Ibad Khan following by a call on Governor of State Bank Shamshed Akhtar and will visit Lahore and then meet dignitaries there.
Professor Mahbubani will visit Islamabad where he will pay courtesy calls on various VIPs including Premier Shaukat Aziz, who he has known from Singapore when Shaukat Aziz was heading Citibank.