Dr Awab Alvi, Faisal Kapadia, & Sana Saleem on the premises of the 1st Cure Rayan drive in Karachi, with LBS 26 discussing and explaining what this cause is about, as well as talking about the hottest issue of the day, Raymond Davis and his various if’s and buts’.

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.

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]

Laidback Show Tech segment evaluates the Nokia 5230 Experience Bus parked at the Forum Karachi. Farhan Chawla and Faisal Kapadia rendezvous with the Nokia team and get a run through the bus and a decent review of the phone itself.

Show Notes after the jump

28th December Bomb Blast on MA Jinnah Road during the Ashura Procession
Awab’s video report of the next days tour of the area
Faisal Kapadia celebrates his Birthday
Aman Ittehad holds a Solidarity day on 1st Jan and had a Press Conference on 31st December to hype up the media
All Pakistan Youth pays hommage to Quaid Mazar on 25th December, Abid Beli and Sarfaraz Khan coordinates this effort
Awab’s video report on the 25th December Quaid Mazar visit
Awab goes to Ayesha Tammy Haq’s show for the Aman Ittehad
Sana Saleem outshines the old-bloc of Nadeem Farooq Piracha
Faisal plans to go to the Hingol Offroading trip on 8th Jan

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• New Laidback Show Tech segment to review technology products
• Laidback Show Reps – opens doors for citizen journalists to submit content to be included in the Laidback Show
• All Pakistan Youth holds a peace rally at Quaid Mazar on 25th December
• Awab buys a Macbook Pro from Ebay
• Rai Azlan‘s video report on the Green and White program
• Solidarity Day by Aman Ittehad on 1st Jan 2010 all across Pakistan
• Faisal Kapadia talks about the nude cyclists in New Zealand
• NRO chucked away by the Supreme Court, is it biased towards PPP, or is that the start of the accountability process
• Danish Kaneria back in the Pakistan cricket team, what are the future prospects of the upcoming matches
• Shobz reviews Avatar 3D the movie
• HP gives away a few T-Shirts – question is asked in the show send your answers to info@laidbackshow.com and win yourself an HP T-Shirt
• Twitter went down for an hour by Pro Iran organization, warns US to stay out of Iranian affairs
• Farhan Chawla joins the Laidback Show to review HP Mini 110, more or less a decent review agreed upon by the entire Laidback show team, seems like a great netbook.

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• 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.

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• Bakra Eid comes knocking, millions of animals being sacrificed, quite a lot many do it as a show of wealth
• Jehan Ara discusses Take Back the Tech – violence against women, TBTT’s initiatives in Pakistan, blog post Take Back The Tech: join the16 days of activism
• Twitter activism takes a lead spreading the word #TakeBacktheTech
• TEDIndia’s presentation by Pranav Mistry on his Sixth Sense product
• Short discussion on P@SHA, Yousuf Jan takes over Chairmanship of P@SHA
• Google Wave turns out to be a flop
• Awab wants to predict that Facebook popularity is set to be taken over by other technologies
• Faisal Kapadia discusses how the government of Pakistan allows a Hindu temple to bring a moorti for its festival
• Awab discusses a Hindu temple in Hingol, Baluchistan called Nani Mander, where he has gone for Offroading
• Awab shares a picture of Zardari with Ami and Abu
• Laidback Show supports the Take back the Tech initiative and urges every one to STOP VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN

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• 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