Syed Talat Hussain, Host / Journalist

Syed Talat Hussain, Executive director of AAJ Television and hosts the famous show Live with Talat. He writes for Newsline, Daily Dawn, Time Magazine, Daily Times (Pakistan), Daily Express and occasionally contributes to India Today. Recently he joined Dawn News and doing News Night With Talat. Early Career, He is pioneer of Morning News Shows in Pakistan. in Late 90's he ran a famous morning news show "Sawaray Sawaray" on PTV. Later after opening of PTV World he started another famous program "News Night". He established ARY’s Islamabad office and headed the team that launched PTV World News. He has held key positions of Director, News & Current Affairs with Pakistan Television Corporation, Prime Television (UK) and Telebiz. He is Director News at Aaj TV and also write occasionally for Daily Express, an Urdu newspapers since July 2008. Current affairs shows Sawaray Sawaray - PTV News Night - PTV Live with Talat - AAJ TV (First Show: 23rd March, 2005, Last Show: 29 Oct, 2010) News Night With Talat – Dawn News (First Show: 8th November 2010) Gaza Flotilla Raid, On the 30th of May 2010, Hussain was aboard the convoy amid conflict during the Gaza flotilla raid. Due to loss of communications, Hussain's status and whereabouts were unknown for a while, and a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (Pakistan) stated "the Government of Pakistan is seriously concerned over the well-being and whereabouts of the Pakistani citizens and media personnel including Syed Talat Hussain and Raza Mahmood Agha (both of them from AAJ Television) who were on board the Flotilla bound for Gaza. The Foreign Ministry is in constant touch with its Missions in the region to ascertain the well-being of our nationals." On June 1, 2010 Hussain was finally released through Shah Abdullah II of Jordan and returned to Karachi via Dubai.