Shoaib Sultan Khan. A man of the people and one who worked for the people, from the grassroots to the halls of bureaucracy.
It was a stint as UNICEF’s social development consultant in Sri Lanka in the Mahaweli Ganga project that got him a full page mention in Newsweek in an article “A Man Named Khan”. That was over 30 years ago. An elephant infested country, he recalls, but the earnest man that he was, he stayed in the villages often. It was then that the Aga Khan Foundation asked him to take up a project in Gilgit in Pakistan. He got the Aga Khan to persuade UNICEF to fund it. On December 1, 1982, when his flight to Gilgit didn’t take off, he drove the 600 odd km there in a jeep which was lying unused.
via ‘A Man named Khan’ – The Hindu.
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