Syed Talat Hussain (

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journalist A journalist is an individual that collects/gathers information in form of text, audio, or pictures, processes them into a news-worthy form, and disseminates it to the public. The act or process mainly done by the journalist is called journalism ...

and YouTuber who hosted a prime time current affairs talk show on

Geo News Geo News is a Rank Number 1 Pakistani news channel owned by the Jang Media Group. History The Geo Television Network started out with the launch of its flagship channel Geo TV in October 2002 but has since launched several other channels whic ...

titled Naya Pakistan with Talat Hussain. Syed Talat Hussain is brother of 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 start of PTV World TV channel, he started a program called ''News Night''. Before that, he had been an executive director of

AAJ TV ''Aaj News'' () is a 24-hour Pakistani news television channel. It is a privately owned Urdu language TV station which covers national and international news. The channel started out as hybrid channel (news, current affairs and entertainment), ...

and had also worked for Dawn News TV channel. He has written for Newsline magazine, Daily Dawn newspaper, Time magazine, Daily Times (Pakistan) newspaper, Daily Express newspaper and occasionally contributed to India Today newspaper and writing columns for The Daily Express newspaper.Talat Hussain, AKU board celebrates its high achievers
The Express Tribune (newspaper), Published 1 November 2013, Retrieved 13 October 2022] He has held key positions of director, News & Current Affairs with

Pakistan Television Corporation Pakistan Television Corporation ( ur, ; reporting name: PTV) is the Pakistani state-owned broadcaster. Pakistan entered the television broadcasting age in 1964, with a pilot television station established at Lahore. Background Historical co ...

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( UK) and Telebiz. Talat was director of news at Aaj TV and also writes occasionally for ''

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'', an Urdu newspaper, since July 2008. 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 Group of Newspapers Jang Media Group (), also known as Geo Group, is a Pakistani media conglomerate and a subsidiary of Dubai-based company Independent Media Corporation. Its headquarters is in Printing House, Karachi, Pakistan. It is Pakistan's largest group of new ...

, 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

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held a 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. In 2022, Syed Talat Hussain who had been a vocal critic of the previous

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government and

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faced many problems during the PTI ruling period. He was taken off air by Geo News among many other things to cause him problems due to his reporting.

Personal life

Talat Hussain was born into a Syeds family in

Chakwal District Chakwal District ( Punjabi and ur, ) is in Pothohar Plateau of Punjab, Pakistan. It is located in the north of the Punjab province, Chakwal district is bordered by Khushab to its south, Rawalpindi to its north east, Jhelum to its east, Mian ...

. Talat Hussain went to Sadiq Public School,

Bahawalpur Bahawalpur () is a city in the Punjab province of Pakistan. With inhabitants as of 2017, it is Pakistan's 11th most populous city. Founded in 1748, Bahawalpur was the capital of the former princely state of Bahawalpur, ruled by the Abbasi fa ...

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.His son,Shamyl Hussain plays u19 cricket and is really successful in his cricketing career.He has played the first edition of Pakistan Junior League as the captain of Gwadar Sharks and has represented Pakistan under-19 .He is currently completing his A levels from Beaconhouse Margalla Campus, Islamabad.

Current affairs TV shows by Talat Hussain

* ''Sawaray Sawaray'' - PTV * ''News Night'' - PTV * ''Live with Talat'' -

(First Show: 23 March 2005, Last Show: 29 Oct 2010) * ''News Night With Talat''–

Dawn News Dawn News is one of Pakistan's 24-hour Urdu news channel. Based in Karachi, the station is a subsidiary of Pakistan Herald Publications Limited (PHPL), Pakistan's largest English-language media group. The test transmission of the station occu ...

(First Show: 8 November 2010) * ''Live with Talat'' -

Express News (TV channel) Express News is an Urdu language Pakistani television news channel based in Karachi, launched on January 1, 2008. It is owned and run by Lakson Group which also runs the country's third largest Urdu daily, ''Daily Express''. The owners of the cha ...

(June, 2012 to August 2013) * ''Live with Talat'' - AAJ TV ( January 2014 to May 2014) * ''Naya Pakistan with Talat Hussain'' -

( February 2015 to November 2018 )

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External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Hussain, Talat Living people Punjabi people Pakistani male journalists Pakistan Television Corporation executives People from Rawalpindi District Pakistani YouTubers Quaid-i-Azam University alumni 1966 births

Early career

Personal life

Current affairs TV shows by Talat Hussain

See also

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