Word: punjabis
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...through hell for 10 years, and where was she? The only way she could come back was by a deal. The stigma will stay forever." Still, like many in Sindh, he plans to vote for her party because it represents the region in a national political scene dominated by Punjabi interests...
Simran Kaur got married last December in what she terms a "medium-sized Punjabi wedding". "There were only a thousand guests," she says amidst the colour, bling and music of her wedding video. "And the four days of ceremonies before the wedding were attended by only relatives and close family friends," says the 26-year-old homemaker from Chandigarh, the capital of the prosperous state of Punjab, adding, not without a hint of irony, "which made up some 250 people...
...district administrators who had been waiting since 9 a.m. for his arrival. Even 14 hours in, the speeches were going strong - testament to the lawyers' oratorical endurance. In between speeches, music blasted from the sound system. The most popular, a new tune written for the occasion, was a catchy Punjabi pop song whose refrain echoed through the makeshift stadium: "Hey man, take off your uniform. Your job is done now, time to go home." The opening notes launched a conga line of black-suited lawyers through the aisles. It was like something that would be seen at an American lawyers...
...violence was not restricted to supporters of the rival political groups, however. Eyewitness reports from the Malir district of Karachi suggested that MQM militants had rounded up people simply on the grounds that they looked by Pathan or Punjabi, and tried to execute them...
...generation’s experience. The second layer builds on the first layer.” But Reddi reminded the audience that the wave of immigration in the 1970s was not the first to hit America. According to Reddi, in the 1910s and 1920s a smaller number of mostly Punjabi immigrants moved to California to become farmers. “That generation is virtually ignored,” Reddi said. “And what they did for the country in terms of the desert land they made fertile is tremendous.” Neither Reddi nor Anand...