Erick Avari plays the Pakistani ambassador and Iqbal Theba plays the Indian ambassador in this story about a war between India and Pakistan. In real life, Avari is Indian (born in Darjeeling, West Bengal, India) and Theba is Pakistani (born in Karachi, Pakistan).
'And I looked, and I beheld a pale horse, and the name that sat on him was Death, and Hell followed with him.' This quote is from the Book of Revelation (singular, not Revelations plural. The President (Martin Sheen) refers to it in the plural).
When President Bartlett & Leo are speaking with the Chinese ambassador, they call him by his first name, David.
The actor who plays the ambassador, James Hong, also played a character named David Lo Pan in the movie Big Trouble in Little China.