I thought that anonymous Guest postings had been banned?? Yet here we have two of them.

"Paki" is an accepted abbreviation - If you doubt that go to middle and far east. It is commonly used within the Indian/Pakistani community in the UK and if it is OK and acceptable for them to use the term it should be likewise OK and acceptable for anyone else to use the term.

The offence comes in how it is used, not in the term itself. There was obviously no derogatory intent in this case, and considering the shape the world is reportedly in at present, if this three year old story warrants being spread across the headlines of MSM, then we ain't in too bad a state.