Dr Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia discuss a number of issues on the 27th Episiode of the Laidback Show. They talk in details about the controvesial release of Raymond Davis based on the Qissas & Diyat [Blood Money], Education Emergency, Bahrain riots and Awab’s visit to Long Beach to attend TED2011 amongst other issues. Enjoy

Dr. Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia along with the offroadPakistan head to Jacobabad aboard a Pakistan Air Force C-130 to distribute Flood Relief goods to the area – Jacobabad has been cut off from aid since floods have surrounded this area since the start of the month. The offroadpakistan team would like to thank the 70 GDP group for arranging the C-130 to Jacobabad.

Shaista Hussain and her Un colleagues head off to pondicherry, India and give us a birds eyes view of what life is like in that lazy seaside town

Nawaz Sharif backtracked on the 18th Amendment [this discussion took place on Monday]
Dr. Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia talk about the Cricketing fiasco
Planning to host a WordCamp Pakistan in Karachi on 23rd May 2010 [@WordCampPK]

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• Faisal Kapadia, Awab Alvi and Farhan Chawla discuss Dr. Aafia Siddiqui’s court verdict in the USA where she is charged with 7 issues on assaulting an officer
• Farhan Chawla shows off his Carputer
• Discussion on Shahid Afridi’s ball biting incident
• Discussion on the bomb blasts in Karachi
• Balaatkar is to be substituted by Chamatkar ppl…just in case someone has not seen the 3 idiots.

Show notes after the Jump

• Laidback Show welcomes back Naveen Naqvi
• The hot topic of NRO being declared Null and Void by the Supreme Court of Pakistan
• Swiss Cases, Musharraf’s High Treason issue, Mike Mullen having closed door discussion inside the presidency while the Supreme Court decides the fate of the NRO?
• Whats going to happen to the Missing Persons cases
• Naveen Naqvi going into prime time at Dawn
• Naveen Naqvi attends the Women in Media the way forwards conference by AKS
• Faisal Kapadia believes most women do fluffy TV shows and they should move away from the stereotype women shows
• Back to back tweet / blogger meetup Dell Dine-up art Royale Rodale courtesy CIO Pakistan and then HP bounces back with emagine group launching the HP Mini, the green guy gets the rough treatment. Laidbackshow interviews a few particpants about the HP Mini event
• Awab takes a trip to Hingol and eye a US/NATO APC along the route traveling towards Quetta, where they tour the Hindu Temple Nani Mander, Kund Malir Beach and Mud Volcanoes with offroadpakistan.com
• Naveen heads to Delhi for 5 days meets Arundhati Roy and has dinner with her
• T2F relauches itself at a new location off Sunset Blvd, Sabeen worked hard for over a year to finally open the doors on Monday 21st December 2009
• Dubai debacle, Abu Dhabi bailing it out, but the question is for how long. Faisal Kapadia shares his fascination with China, while Awab feels that third world countries like Pakistan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka will stand to benefit from the business moving out of Chine in the future
• Zaid Hamid, leading the youth in a very weird direction, Awab’s description of Zaid Hamid’s tarkaydar chai.
• Awab talks to a reporter from Chirstian Science Monitor about the mystery surrounding the presence of Blackwater in Pakistan
• Poppy Agha joins us from behind the camera

Show notes after the jump

• Laid back show now present in itunes for subscription!
• Laid back show will be available in mp3 format also
• Obama accepts the Nobel peace prize, blech!!(by ayesha & alihammad)
• Review of the movie 2012 & avatar sneak peak
• (by shobz)
• Comparisons between Avatar of the future and Afpak now
• Ecological disasters and Zaid hamid
• Off road adventure group heads to hingol/baluchistan for a day trip/camping today Dr Awab is a member.
• NFC awards, discussion on how to best distribute the nations resources between provinces
• The plight of Baluchistan
• New world order, secret societies, Illuminati
• Jihadi tourism, 5 Muslim Americans caught while trying to join jihad in Afpak.

Show Notes After the jump

• Awab heads to Mysore, India for TEDIndia, meets many people including some top India bloggers like Amit Agarwal of Digital Inspiration fame and Amit Varma of India Uncut
• Naveen Naqvi [@NaveeNaqvi] leaves Breakfast at Dawn show
• Fasial Qureshi believes that “the new media” is not engaging with prime time to become a credible voice to change
• Shanaakht Festival was held in Karachi, safely without any controversy
• Fasial Kapadia switches to an IPhone 3G
• Transparency International report bumps Pakistan to #42nd most corrupt nation: debate on why TI chooses to label DHA as the most corrupt organization as compared to customs
• NRO List appears after two years?
• MQM Rabta Committee representative goes to meet Imran Khan, possibility of an urban political force? Street power of MQM combines with the popular face of Imran Khan
• Awab forced to leave the digital world for two weeks, he survived
• Michael Jackson had some serious issues with child molestation charges – the media was hounding him – was he naive
• Large Hadron Collider had its first collision – resolving the big bang thoery – watch it on twitter
• Will twitter go into a paid-for service model – to monetize the huge server usage?
• Hat-tip to Faisal Khan / Babushka99 for suggesting the new HD camera Logitech Webcam c905 for Laidbackshow