Abductive reasoning commands, “If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck.” It is called the duck test and is quite useful too. Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov used it only last year to justify the choice of his country’s targets in Syria. […]
Author Archives: Farrukh Khan Pitafi
The writer is an Islamabad-based TV journalist and policy commentator. Follow him on X: @FPWrites
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Pakistan’s reconstructive surgery
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Akhand what now?
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Always the woman, never the man
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Triumph of nihilism
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A feast for crows
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Crash of civilisation
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The pariahs of Pakistan
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A new world order
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