Syed Talat Hussain is a Pakistani journalist, foreign policy commentator and a television personality.He was born in Chakwal. Syed Talat Hussain has hosting a prime time current affairs talk show on Geo News titled Naya Pakistan with Talat Hussain. Before, he has been an executive director of AAJ Television and had also worked for PTV and Dawn News. He has written for Newsline, Daily Dawn, Time magazine, Daily Times , Daily Express and occasionally contributed to India Today. In 2008 he started writing columns for The Daily Express.
Early career
In the late 1990s, Hussain ran the morning news showSawairay Sawairay on PTV. Later, after the opening of PTV World, he started another program called News Night.. He has held key positions of Director, News & Current Affairs with Pakistan Television Corporation, Prime Television and Telebiz. he was Director News at Aaj TV and also write occasionally for Daily Express, an Urdu newspapers since July 2008. Currently, he works as a part-time host for Saach TV, and has also joined Bahria University in Islamabad as Project Director and Assistant Professor. He has been tasked to reinvigorate the Media Studies program at Department of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University.
Personal life
Talat Hussain went to C B Technical high school, Tariqabad Rawalpindi and later did his masters from Quaid-e-Azam University in Islamabad. He is married to his first cousin, Tehmina Hussain. They have 3 children together. Talat Hussain describes himself as " Journalist, writer, obsessive jogger, voracious reader, massive meat-eater". He takes himself and his profession very seriously.
On the 30th of May 2010, Hussain was aboard the convoy amid conflict during the Gaza flotilla clash.Due to loss of communications, Hussain’s status and whereabouts were unknown although a spokesman for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs stated “the Government of Pakistan was seriously concerned over the well-being and whereabouts of the Pakistani citizens and media personnel including Syed Talat Hussain and Raza Mahmood Agha who were on board the Flotilla bound for Gaza. The Foreign Ministry was in constant touch with its Missions in the region to ascertain the well-being of our nationals.” and on June 1, 2010, he was released via Shah Abdullah II of Jordan and he came back Karachi via Dubai.
