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

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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.

• 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

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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

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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

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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

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• 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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• Death of a 3-year old child Imanae at Doctors Hospital in Lahore
• Regulation of Doctors in Pakistan by PMDC, and the business of medical education and corruption
• Wasim Akram’s wife could possibly had been exposed to lack of sterilization at a dental office
• Tiger Woods and his week long extramarital affairs (topic suggested by @shobz)
• Friday prayers attack in Islamabad – many military personnel killed along with their kids
• Debate on the balance between war offensive and peace as a solution to Pakistan’s problems in Baluchistan
• AfPak strategy by Obama (topic suggested by @nabiluppal)
• Obama’s Noble Peace Prize is an embarrassment to the notion of Peace
• Cooking shows on TV – love ‘em or hate ‘em (topic by @alisaadk)
• Modernization of Islam – do we need to adapt towards a better softer religious strategy or approach
• Was 9/11 a conspiracy?
• Blackwater in Pakistan – Vanity Fair article and Eric Prince rebuttal
• 12 cartons of Zardari’s Swiss case have disappeared courtesy Pakistan’s UK High Commissioner