Syed Talat Hussain

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Syed Talat Hussain (Urdu: سید طلعت حسین) is a Pakistani journalist and YouTuber who hosted a prime time current affairs talk show on Geo News titled Naya Pakistan with Talat Hussain.^[1] Syed Talat Hussain is brother of Dr. Rifaat Hussainn a Pakistani political scientist, professor, defense analyst and television personality whose career in the academia spans over four decades.

Early career[]

After the opening of PTV World, he started a program called News Night.^[2] Before, he has been an executive director of AAJ Television and had also worked for Dawn News. He has written for Newsline, Daily Dawn, Time magazine, Daily Times (Pakistan), Daily Express and occasionally contributed to India Today and writing columns for The Daily Express. He has held key positions of director, News & Current Affairs with Pakistan Television Corporation, Prime Television (UK) and Telebiz.^{[citation needed]} Talat was director of news at Aaj TV and also writes occasionally for Daily Express, an Urdu newspaper, since July 2008.^[2] In April 2018, Hussain said in a tweet that the day Geo was unable to "allow space for balanced journalism" there would be "no reason for me to continue to appear on their platform." His tweet came after Geo TV, part of Pakistan's largest commercial media group, Jang, was taken off the air in many parts of the country. The ban only ended a month later after talks between the military and the network's chiefs, who pledged to change the network's coverage. Army Chief General Qamar Bajwa held an briefing with a group of journalists in which he described Geo TV as "subversive" and warned the channel that it would face consequences for crossing "red lines" by challenging the military. Currently, Talat Hussain works hosting show STH.

Personal life[]

Talat Hussain was born into a Syeds family in Chakwal district. Talat Hussain went to C B Technical high school, Tariqabad Rawalpindi and later did his master's degree from Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. He is married to his first cousin, Tehmina Hussain. They have three children together.^{[citation needed]}

Current affairs TV shows by Talat Hussain[]

• Sawaray Sawaray - PTV
• News Night - PTV
• Live with Talat - AAJ TV (First Show: 23 March 2005, Last Show: 29 Oct 2010)
• News Night With Talat– Dawn News (First Show: 8 November 2010)
• Live with Talat - Express News (June, 2012 to August 2013)
• Live with Talat - AAJ TV ( January 2014 to May 2014)
• Naya Pakistan with Talat Hussain - Geo News ( February 2015 to November 2018 )^[3]

See also[]

• Daily Times (Pakistan)
• List of Pakistani journalists
• Nadeem Malik (Pakistani journalist)
• Faisal Qureshi

References[]

• Syed Talat Hussain on Twitter