Punga

This 'joke' was recounted in a news article during the "Lawyers' long march in Pakistan. Fortunately it turned out to be a very short march as a suicide bomber frustrated that the crowd stopped before reaching his assigned area (a bus stand) blew himself up killing several innocent bystanders. A link to the story in Dawn News.[1].

Here is a link to the story defining the word punga which starts with a stupid Sardarji joke. Apparently even though most Sikhs were forced to leave their ancestral homes with what they could carry (those that weren't murdered in a pogrom that made the Sikh massacre of 1984 and the pale in comparison) leaving Sikhs a rare sight in Packistan, it still seems that such jokes at another's expense, linger accross the border from Amritsar.

STOP me if you’ve heard this one: a Sikh was on a flight, with a parrot on the other side of the aisle. He noticed that every time a certain pretty hostess walked past, the bird would whistle appreciatively. The girl would give the parrot a dirty look, but nothing else happened.

The last straw was when she was nipped by the bird while passing by. She stormed into the cockpit and complained loudly about the lewd passenger. The captain said there was little he could do, and asked her to put up with the bird’s behaviour until they had landed.

The next time she walked past, the Sikh got into the act, and pinched her. This time, she blew up and threatened to resign if the captain took no action. ‘OK,’ he replied. ‘Throw them both out of the plane.’ As the two fell from 30,000 feet, the parrot asked the Sikh: ‘Sardar Ji, can you fly?’ When the panic-stricken man said no, the bird unfurled his wings and asked: ‘Then why did you take a punga with the hostess?’

For those of you who do not speak Punjabi, Hindi or Urdu you can click on the link above to read the rest of the story.