P for Permanent?

A few days back I was at our client place in Kuala Lumpur. Since we are not employees of that client, we are issued temporary ID cards. For that we need to drop off any ID proof (any one of passport, Pan card, DL, etc) at the security and collect the temp ID to enter the building. On leaving the office simply exchange the temp ID for the ID proof at the security. I normally used my PAN(Permanent Account Number) card as my ID proof.

One day after office, as usual I collected my PAN card and walked to the bus stop to catch a bus to my apartment. While waiting for the bus I noticed that the lamination of my PAN card was going off. Most of it had come off and so I decided to take it off completely and get a new lamination done. I removed both the sides of the plastic lamination and looked around for a dustbin. As I could not find a dustbin close by, I put the plastic sheets in the bag.

Next day when I took my PAN card to surrender it to the security, I was shocked. It was completely blank (see the image below). For a while I thought I have given some other junk card. I checked again and again on both the sides. It was empty ! :-O My photo was missing, all the information on the card was missing and I was in a foreign country! :-O

Suddenly it dawned on me. The lamination! I searched my bag and found it. Just as I thought, my photo, and all the info was on it :D (Signature and PAN number is not displayed for security purpose :P). I was so relieved. :D

My habit of not throwing waste on the road helped me and I thanked my lucky stars for not finding a dustbin at the bus stop :D.

Made me wonder, whose idea would it be printing empty pan cards in bulk and then laminating all information onto plastic ?? It happens only in INDIA :D

Does P stand for Permanent in PAN????"