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Posts Tagged ‘Talat Hussain’

Human Dumping Stations, the only means to provide Food, Camps and Feeds

By Dr RazaHaider • Aug 15th, 2010 • Category: Politics

“Areas under likely threat should be marked and populace in vicinity and in surrounds; should be moved and be settled immediately in immediate and nearest approachable areas that would not become engage by flood. This is by forming Human Dumping stations that would work to settled temporary Relief and with Feeds, Camps and Medical provisioning.



Is Talat Hussain of Aaj is Alive on Freedom Flotilla After Israeli Attack?

By Shayan Khan • May 31st, 2010 • Category: Politics

At least 20 passengers have been reported dead and over 60 wounded on Monday when Israeli forces stormed Freedom Flotilla (a boat carrying pro-Palestinian activists bound for Gaza),  Aaj News  reported. Executive Director  Aaj News  Talat Hussain along with his team members is onboard, whose where about could not be known.
AFP: Unconfirmed media reports from [...]



Close Down GEO and Everything Will be Fine

By Gul Raiz • Dec 21st, 2009 • Category: Politics

Honestly, if you don’t watch GEO Television, everything seems so routine and normal in the country and you don’t get bouts of frustration and agony and you don’t shudder that Pakistan will be no more in coming some weeks or the country won’t be engulfed in the civil war and we will be cutting each [...]



Hilary Clinton’s Interaction with Media Anchors

By Tazeen • Oct 28th, 2009 • Category: Politics

So now we know that at last the uproar created by media over the Kerry-Lugar bill has attracted the US attention and secretary of state Hilary Rodham Clinton has given the most importance to the media anchors, and not even to the journalists or to the columnists or to the analysts.
Media anchors like Talat Hussain, [...]



Media Figures; Opinion Dictators

By Muskan Hina • Oct 19th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Whatever the presidential spokesperson may say, what is said by the anchorpersons or the columnists elite gets listened, memorized, quoted, recalled and even followed by the masses. Masses see the talk shows, because that is readily available and the more spicey the talk show is, the more it remains in the memory. Masses don’t have [...]



Kashif Abassi : Where are You

By Sumaira Bajwa • Aug 9th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Along with Dr. Shahid Masood, Hamid Mir, Talat Hussain, and Javed Chaudhry, one of the most famous and sought after anchorperson in the Pakistani private media is Kashif Abbassi. A graduate of Barani Institute of Information Technology, UAAR, Rawalpindi, Kashif belongs to a wealthy and strong background, but his fame comes from his intrepid and [...]



Are Journalists Duddoos (Frogs)?

By Haris Hashmi • Mar 7th, 2009 • Category: Politics

Senator Waqar, Rehman Malik, Manzoor Wattooo in the leadership of Salman Taseer are staging Lota-Market in Lahore. Salman Taseer is not happy with the journalists of newspapers and the tv shows. Salman Taseer is specifically not happy with Javed Chaudhary, Talat Hussain, Hamid Mir and Kashif Abbasi. He has called them frogs who mushroom during [...]



Sufaid Khoon

By Tazeen Javed • May 6th, 2008 • Category: Misc

The story of ‘Sufaid Khoon’, Agha Hashar’s adaptation of Shakespeare’s ‘King Lear’ is as old as time and still relevant to us all. Like its inspiration, the play opens with a court scene where King Khaqan (superbly played by Talat Hussien) asks his daughters about their affections for their father. The elder daughters Mahpara (Bakhtawar [...]