Re: Prince Harry apologises for calling army colleague 'Paki'
The word "paki" CAN surely be offensive in certain circumstances...but this hardly seemed to be one of those. Pakis call each other paki all the time. Friends of pakis who are not themselves paki...use that word without offense. It goes the same way with the "N" word. African americans call each other that incessantly. And their non-Afr. Am. friends are welcome to use that term too when addressing each other (as in "wassup my N-word" etc).
The house of Windsor has always seemed to me to be very friendly with the Pakistani population (maybe because of Diana who ws a great friend of Pakistan even before her romance with the doc and Dodi._
I felt sorry for the guy. As one of the embattled palace spokespeople explained, he was acting as a soldier amongst fellow soldiers, forgetting that the rest of the world never sees him in THAT light, they see him as a prince. So as much as he would like to be "one of the guys", it can never be.