Word: punjabis
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Moments after the decision was announced, angry mobs from the Sharifs' Punjabi power base took to the streets in protest. In Islamabad (a federal territory located within the boundaries of Punjab), young men waving the PML-N's green flags and chanting anti-Zardari slogans seized control of two of the capital's main thoroughfares. Panicked shopkeepers in the bustling Aabpara market swiftly pulled down their shutters and fled the area. The youths torched car tires and attacked cars bearing government license plates. Parts of Lahore, the second largest city and capital of Punjab, were brought to a standstill...
...ease in both cultures (he speaks fluent Punjabi and Urdu), Mueenuddin writes with an understanding of the hierarchies and traditions of Pakistani life but also with an appreciation for what Western audiences know and, more likely, don't know about life in a country that features far more prominently in newspapers than on the fiction shelf. "I am deep in my heart apolitical in my writing," he says. "There are plenty of soapboxes one can stand upon, but one of them is not a short story." In the world of In Other Rooms, all politics is local: the never-ending...
...fractious debates about the nature of Islamic fanaticism that has sprung up in the West. It is a shame that the book is let down by a plethora spelling errors and inconsistencies, the lack of endnotes and bibliography, and numerous mistakes in the English transliteration of Urdu and Punjabi words. But then balti itself is something of a hash, and that doesn't stop it from being rather moreish...
...strangely enough, the cumulative effect of reading these works is uplifting. Despite appearances, Nadeem is no pessimist. In fact, Selected Plays can be moralistic, even histrionic, with endless interludes of Punjabi folk songs and qawwali choruses. They are not horrors but shock-dramas (one, Burqaganza, was banned last year by Pakistan's Minister of Culture). Ultimately, Nadeem's theater is passionately fired by faith in Pakistan's potential for change and in the sanctity of life. If only those who ram explosives into hotels and busy markets would feel the same...
...ecological and health problems including cancer and mental retardation. A June 2005 study by the new Delhi-based Centre for Science and Environment found residues of between 6 and 13 pesticides in blood samples of villagers from Mahi Nangal, Jajjal and Balloh villages in Bhatinda district. Recent research by Punjabi University at Patiala established evidence of DNA damage among agricultural workers exposed to pesticides; damaged genes can give rise to a range of cancers as well as neurological and reproductive disorders. Bala, a 24-year-old day laborer, worked for two months in the fields during the spraying season four...