Syed Talat Hussain (; born 5 May 1966) is a Pakistani

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, YouTuber, and former cricketer. He currently hosts a prime time current affairs talk show on

Samaa TV Samaa TV HD () is a Pakistani Urdu language news channel owned by a Pakistani politician, Aleem Khan. The word 'Samaa' ("سما") is Urdu for 'sky' or 'heaven' (ultimately derived from the Arabic "سماء"). It is broadcast simultaneously f ...

titled ''Red Line with Talat''.

Personal life

Cricket

In 2001, Talat Hussain played one

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match for

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Family

Syed Talat Hussain is the brother of

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. His son, Shamyl Hussain, has played cricket for

Pakistan national under-19 cricket team Pakistan Under-19 cricket team have twice (2004 and 2006) been Cricket World Champions at the under-19 level. Their second win made them the first, and to date the only, back-to-back champions. They have also been runners-up thrice (1988, 2010 ...

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

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and had also worked for Dawn News TV channel. He has written articles for ''Newsline'', ''Daily Dawn'', ''Daily Times'', ''Daily Express'', and occasionally contributed to ''India Today'' and writing columns for ''The Daily Express''.Talat Hussain, AKU board celebrates its high achievers
The Express Tribune, Published 1 November 2013, Retrieved 13 October 2022] In 2022, Syed Talat Hussain who had been a vocal critic of the previous Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf, PTI government and

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faced many problems during the PTI ruling period. He was taken off air by

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among many other things to cause him problems due to his reporting.

Current affairs TV shows

* ''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 HD is a Pakistani 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 occurr ...

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

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

(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 )

Publications

* ''State of the Pakistani Media'',

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, 1996, 26 p. * ''Journalism Education in Pakistan: Problems and Solutions'', Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 1996, 53 p. Co-authored with Martin Loeffelholz. * ''The Basics of Reporting and Editing'', Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung, 1997, 37 p.

References

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