Talk Back w/ Wajahat S. Khan
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TalkBack Episode 9: Lt. General Nadeem Ahmad
The 2005 earthquake in Kashmir and the Northern Areas was Pakistan's biggest natural calamity. With thousands killed and millions displaced, entire cities were flattened, and entire communities were destroyed. In effect, the largest and most onerous reconstruction and rehabilitation program ever in the country's history was conceived was implemented. On the 2nd anniversay of the earthquake, Wajahat S. Khan speaks to Lt. General Nadeem Ahmad and checks off on the accountability sheet of ERRA, the government wing involved with post-earthquake disaster relief operations.
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TalkBack Episode 6: Syeda Abida Hussain
Tough regions make for tough women. In this 6th episode of TalkBack, Syeda Abida Hussain, the definitive iron lady of Punjab politics defends her inconsistent shifts from the right to the center to the left of the Pakistani politics spectrum. Once held responsible for de-railing Benazir Bhuttos government and now a stellar PPP supporter, Abida defends her positions and her peculiarities as Wajahat S. Khan fires one probing question after the other.
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TalkBack Episode 5: Dr. Farooq Sattar
Meet the organizer of the most organized political party in one of the most chaotic governance systems of South Asia. Blamed for violence and extortion, yet credited with secularity and progression, the MQM and its structures and systems are questioned by Wajahat S. Khan as he takes on Dr. Farooq Sattar, the Spin-Doctor of the 3rd largest political party of Pakistan, the Muttahid Qaumi Movement.
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TalkBack Episode 35: Omar Abdullah
Every governance system has a political dynasty, and in Kashmir it is, no doubt, the Abdullahs. Meet Omer, the youngest scion of the famed Abdullah clan, the family which has dominated occupied Jammu & Kashmir for more than half a century. Currently voted in as the Chief Minister of Kashmir, but also tainted with a past shifting of pro Indian to ultra-nationalist, Omer Abdullahs faceoff with Wajahat S. Khan in Episode 35 of TalkBack Eye on India is a must see encounter across the notorious Line of Control.
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TalkBack Episode 7: Ardeshir Cowasjee
Opinion and journalism are two different things and no one knows this better than Ardeshir Cowasjee, Pakistans most influential columnist. The grand old man of Sunday print, Cowasjee has taken on democrats and dictators, land-grabbers and NGOs, and aristocrats and bureaucrats. Probably one of the most outspoken yet most mysterious, even eccentric news man of our times, Cowasjee and Wajahat S. Khans face-off in this Episode 7 of TalkBack pits one old-schooler versus another new-age journalist.
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