""Paki" is an accepted abbreviation"

Really? I wouldn't say so and where I was brought up it was used pejoratively to denote anyone of Asian origin. When I moved away from the area to where I lived now a friend of mine came to stay and one of the maggots I laughingly called 'friends' in those days said to me "Christ - he's a Paki!". I had their measure before, but that sealed it.

It's a racist term and the way people have jumped to the defence of this over-privileged tosspot we all have to pay for is sickening. You'd get sacked for using that language anywhere else and quite rightly.

" 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."

Funny that, but the word "nigger" is also used within the black community - is it OK and acceptable for anyone else to use the term?

No it isn't, unless of course you're a racist or some other breed of right-wing snotstain.