Three rules of journalism, 2005:

1) Terrorists and insurgents are getting "more sphisticated"

2) Terrorist/insurgent attacks are always "bold" or "brazen"

3) The "security sitation" is always either "deteriorating" or "spiraling"

You realize "Paki" is an ethnic slur, right?

Didn't know that ...

The following is a whole self-identified web site of ethnic slurs, I guess ...

http://www.paki.com/

P@ki.Com
Biggest Pakistani Online Community

Or this?

P a k i R e c i p e s . c o m
Largest Collection of Pakistani Recipes !!!

http://www.pakirecipes.com/

Or ...

Paki-Trade
Broker accounts for the Pakistani Stock Market.

http://www.karachistocks.com/

But then again ...

About a decade back, Bangladeshi and Pakistani teenagers in England began re-appropriating the dreaded “Paki” word. Once a vicious epithet flung on London streets by white skinheads, the word was now a symbol of an assertive brown community. “Paki Power” graffiti appeared, a clothing label called “Pak1” did the rounds… and Aki Nawaz of punk-asian band Fun^Da^Men^Tal told the press, “We’re not Pacifists, we’re Pakifists!”

“Taking back” racist epithets has long been a cultural touchstone, and a touchy one at that. I took to greeting my British Asian friends with “Paki”, but only when we were alone, never in front of white Brits. One day, I called my friend Usman and his father answered the phone. Mistaking his voice for his son, I launched into “Oii Paki, it’s Naeem!” The long, pained silence on the other end spoke volumes about how the older generation viewed this act of re-appropriation. He was horrified and disappointed in our lack of “historical context…”

Besides the use of “Paki” by British South Asian youth, Australian immigrants have started a gleeful website called “WogLife” and for the Jewish community there’s the in-your-face magazine “Heeb.”

http://www.sepiamutiny.com/sepia/archives/001301.html

As it is, I had no idea from its current affirmative usage. Seems like an abbreviation, like Frenchie. Changed.

Paki is a derogatory slang term used by the British to describe South Asian immigrants.

Meriam-Webster:
Main Entry: Paki
Pronunciation: 'pa-kE, 'pä-
Function: noun
Etymology: short for Pakistani
chiefly British, usually disparaging : a Pakistani immigrant

These things happen. Just wouldn't want you to get into a dust up at a cocktail party...

Sure, thanks.

thanks bill