Documents issued by a foreign government need to be verified by the Pakistan embassies/consulates in that country before they can be attested by us. Reasonable considering our office just verifies the signatures of the authorized person and not the contents. Unfortunately the hysterical lady who barged into my office way past the normal document acceptance time refuses to see things this way. She had a marriage certificate issued by the dutch government and spent a tediously long 30 minutes dragging her husband (mere mian se baat kerlain - this statement makes me want to pull out their hair and scream as to why the husband didn’t deign to submit the documents in the first place since the wife apparently is a mindless cretin who can only regurgitate the above mentioned sentence ad nauseum!) in to explain things to me followed by a monologue in which she eulogized the Dutch, bashed Pakistan and summarized by uttering in shocked disbelief how at how we could even think of suspecting the Dutch or her for that matter. She finally graced us by flouncing out shrieking that living in Pakistan was worse than death. So much for patriotism, logic or even heroinish pan :P