PKRelief along with the OffroadPakistan heads to Khorwah, Badin to distribute over 350 flood relief hampers, clothes and shoes to the flood victims in the area. This episode is a compilation of some videos that we took there in an effort to better understand the flood situation in 2011. After this relief, our focus is now to target small farmers who have suffered and provide them with seeds and fertilizer to help him recover his livelihood to normalcy

Faisal Kapadia and Dr. Awab Alvi head to Sukkur and Shikarpur along with offroadpakistan & SA Relief to deliver relief to the affectees in the region.

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]

Dr. Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia head towards Hingol National Park for a three day Expedition with offroaders from OffroadPakistan to conquer a natural gorge called Poldat

Show notes after the jump

• 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.

• Faisal Kapadia and Awab Alvi meetup at The Second Floor’s new location in Karachi
• Talk with Sabeen Mehmud about the new location and hats off to the anonymous donor who donated the space to develop this place in Karachi renting the space for Rs 1 only [50 paisas for one floor and 50 paisas for the other]
• Sabeen talks about the upcoming speech of Steve Jobs
• Discussion about the tragedy in Haiti
• Farhan Chawla talks about Google Maps and PkMaps
• discussion about privacy in location broadcasting
• Faisal talks about how multinationals are ignoring the new media

Show notes after the jump

The 14th edition of the Laidback Show was recorded in some remote location within the Sorh Valley, Baluchistan as Dr. Awab Alvi and Faisal Kapadia ventured with the Offroad Pakistan group for a three day adventure trip. The recording was done in front of a live audience late at night in front of the campfire. Lightening was low and many friends around the campfire helped provide the necessary lightening to have the show recorded. Intermixed between the interview is some footage of the thrill seekers getting stuck and enjoying the outdoors

People interviewed were

• Sabiha Omar
• Taimur Mirza
• Wazir Ahmed
• Amjad Mawaz
• Salim Khan
• Hamid Omar
• Zulfiqar Bhootani
• Khan Sahib

Credit to Mahera Omar and Zulfiqar Bhootani for lending us the videos of the day-time offroad adventure

Show notes after the jump

Faisal and Awab attend the Solidarity Day in Karachi and discuss the event
Fasial meet Mohammed Hanif, the author of A Case of Exploding Mangoes
Awab goes to Faisal Qureshi’s show Baang-e-dara
Video report on the Lahore Solidarity Rally
DiscoMaulvi suggests why educated people throw trash on their streets
Pakistan suffers from elitism, they can get away with it
Rai Azlan reports on the Google Mapping Party in Lahore
Pakistan open maps on PkMaps
Awab shares the story about Dr. Mehvish Baig and her story as she was harassed by US personel in Karachi. Dr. Mehvish’s ex-husband writes to Awab sharing the other side of the argument as presented by Mehvish
Farhan Chawla does the tech review on Nokia N900