How to pronounce “mahbub” in English

I met Mahbub ul Haq on the first day of my Cambridge studenthood, and I was going to a class,

But when suddenly Mahbub wrote me a letter saying, we are going to solve this problem, you drop everything.

And I kept on telling Mahbub, however, that we're still doing things much more-- over simply.

And one of the examples that come to my mind is when your dear friend Mahbub ul Haq, settled in Pakistan at the time, asked you to drop everything

And then, of course, I mean, we disagreed often, partly for the reasons that Mahbub and I had discussed,