Khawaja Manzar Amin

Khawaja Manzar Amin

The writer is a freelance columnist.

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Two doable shortcuts, as thousands cheerColumns

Two doable shortcuts, as thousands cheer

Get drug addicts and beggars off the roads, permanently   The PTI government is groaning under a huge mountain of dilemmas (including the debt Mt. Everest), most of which are deep-rooted and can<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2019/01/02/two-doable-shortcuts-as-thousands-cheer/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Jan 2, 2019
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Basant killjoys

With popular pastime banned, Lahore winters are empty and meaningless  In these particularly grim and apprehensive times, to talk or even to think of a lost festival of immense p

Oct 15, 2017
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Resigned to not resigning?

Naked self-interest wins over larger national interest ‘An unquestioned despotism of the party leader, the fawning servility of the senior leadership as indeed of the contemptuously ignor

Jul 16, 2017
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A Tale of two Pakistans

Well-heeled MPA more equal than ‘peasant’ MNA  ‘Particularly galling and hurtful was the attitude of the Speaker of the National Assembly, who after initial dictated comments that Dasti’s illegal action disturbed provincial<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/07/09/a-tale-of-two-pakistans/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Jul 9, 2017
Pakistan vs Sri Lanka: Battle of unpredictablesNATIONAL

Pakistan vs Sri Lanka: Battle of unpredictables

Erratic and impulsive play symbolises both Pakistani and Sri Lankan cricket The fickle fraternity of bookmakers, the legal ones abroad and the police patronised here, not to speak of the dwindling band<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2017/06/12/pakistan-vs-sri-lanka-battle-of-unpredictables/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Jun 12, 2017
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Manchester madness: The original sin

No man can take away freedom from another without losing his ownThe cast of villains in Libya’s fall is myriad and varied: war criminals George W. Bush and ‘poodle’ Tony Blair who first set th

Jun 4, 2017
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Keeping one’s fingers crossed

The essence of real power is its indivisibility: as the adage goes, there cannot be two kings in a kingdom, or according to another version, two captains sink a ship. Modern-day constitutions<a href="https://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2014/04/12/keeping-ones-fingers-crossed/" title="Read more" >...</a>

Apr 12, 2014