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Diplomatic passport means you're protected with diplomatic immunity under the Veinna convention. Official passport means government functionary on official or private business. Of course it has value, far more than an ordinary one but not a diplomatic one. Diplomatic passport means much more.

Difference between Official Passport and Diplomatic Passport.

Please convey that message to the children dying in the floods. They will appreciate the gesture of chest thumping spooks.

Third one was a suicide bombing. >20 mn affected by flood. Nation in tatters & these monsters are on their rampage. Everybody congratulate our jihadi jurnails who bred these sectarian monsters. Our lives, peace, everything ruined.

3000% correct.

Hatred is a bit¢h. It stops all rational arguments and even blocks rational thought itself (assuming that somebody can think rationally, a rarity itself - often visible at PDF) Regardless of the irksome chest thumping and "ghairat" going on here, since the usual illiterate thing is to...

‘Western Hypocrisy’ A. Q. Khan emerges to discuss his role developing—and proliferating—Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal. Aamir Qureshi / AFP-Getty Images Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, widely considered the father of Pakistan’s nuclear bomb, has kept a low profile since his unprecedented 2004...

Stewardess allegedly hears a threatening statement. Paranoid passenger. Do not discount race and ethnicity as having played an exacerbating factor. I would agree with MK that Centcom could not have played any role,. TSA being paranoid they are (whether you consider it necessary or not)...

Military officers cancel trip after humiliation at US airport By Anwar Iqbal Wednesday, 01 Sep, 2010 WASHINGTON: A Pakistani military delegation became the latest victim of the paranoia permeating US airports on Monday night, when US security officials detained a brigadier at Washington’s...

Newsline is one of the best, if not the best English language magazine in Pakistan (IMO). Investigative reporting and surveys published in newsline are always insightful and this survey is no exception. The Conservatively Hip By Ayesha Siddiqa A few years ago, while walking through...

The Clueless Mr Harrison The only question that can possibly arise from any sensible follower of international relations after reading Center for International Policy director and former Washington Post South Asia bureau chief Selig Harrison's August 26 op-ed in the New York Times is this: Is...

We have an official passport:- The website of the Directorate General of Immigration & Passports says :- Since the number of official passports is quite large (53,000 in 07-08), then it must be issued to armed forces personnel. Perhaps a serving one can let us know. I'm sure about one...

Selig Harrison and Pakistan Media A column in the New York Times newspaper by American commentator Selig Harrison has raised quite a bit of media attention around a conspiracy theory that the government is giving Gilgit Baltistan to China, a claim publicly denied by the Foreign Office. As...

Since it was I who posted the NYT story, I need to post the reality as well:- Pakistan denies giving Gilgit Baltistan to China Tuesday, 31 Aug, 2010 ISLAMABAD: The Pakistan Foreign Office strongly denied the news propagated in the US and Indian media claiming that ‘Galgit Baltistan’...

Urdu version of your nuttery has already been published by leading newspapers:-

I've finally bought Mubarak Ali's argument that trying to regain Jinnah's Pakistan is a retrogressive obsession since we're clearly assuming that we cannot create a new social contract, state structure and ideology ourselves. Jinnah died on September 11, 1948 but his corpse was dug up and...

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/31/us/31plane.html?_r=1

Anybody who follows PakPassion knows that Majeed has arranged many interviews besides being interviewed himself once. Mazhar Majeed known to Pakistan players Osman Samiuddin August 29, 2010 Mazhar Majeed, the man at the centre of the spot-fixing controversy that has engulfed the ongoing...

ICC is handling it since it has all the power to do so. Chapter C of the ICC Code of Conduct for Players and Officials makes it clear that spot-fixing will result in life-bans and nothing else. The Anti-Corruption Unit has already reached London. What PCB can do is initiate criminal...

You are disgusted by Dasti, aren't you? But in his constituency he is known as "15" as in Rescue 15 for paying a heed to the problems of his constituents immediately. I'm not defending this swine, but fact is that a society based entirely on patron-client relations creates a political...