Mr. Sharif, portly and famously fond of food, cultivates the image of being a typical Punjabi.
Red tandoori chicken and Punjabi breads have become regular staples in Indian restaurants in the West.
His shop interior boasts the suggestive posters usually associated with Hollywood and Punjabi cinema.
The entertainment included dancing camels and horses as well as a troupe of Punjabi folk dancers.
He broke the unwritten rule that a Punjabi prime minister should be partnered by a non-Punjabi president.
Shamshad Begum was a versatile artist, singing in Hindi and the Bengali, Marathi, Gujarati, Tamil and Punjabi languages.
The event took place at the Broadgreen Community Centre and was organised by the Punjabi Event Club Swindon.
Chang is also a bass guitarist in Punjabi funk band BlackMahal, as well as tech-exec cover band CoverFlow.
It's something you hear in all Bollywood music, and it's synonymous with Punjabi culture, which is my background.
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As well as his ability to think big, Mr Sharif's appeal lies in his conservative values and Punjabi identity.
Euphoria usually witnessed during celebrations of Pakistan's independence day was once again gripping the streets of the Punjabi capital.
Over the past three years more than 1m children have been enrolled in Punjabi schools for the first time.
Former Swindon South MP Anne Snelgrove, who has had cervical cancer, was at an event for Punjabi women in Swindon.
They brought their tandoors (clay ovens traditionally found in Punjabi villages) and their breads, among them parathas, rotis and nans.
Clearly he wanted to impress the Punjabi voters in the UK and he has the upcoming British elections in mind.
Many suspect that Punjabi groups are still accorded some kind of protection by the ISI, though the agency denies it.
Encouraged by K.K., given tea and cakes, Husna forgot herself, falling into the common, rich Punjabi of the inner city.
Catering is handled by Anjay Meswani, whose family owns Indian restaurants in New Orleans that serve Punjabi-style food from northern India.
Preet Bharara, the United States Attorney for the Southern District of New York, is, like so many others in the Galleon story, a Punjabi.
As a result, many people equate Punjabi dishes with Indian food in general, when Punjabi cooking is really just one example of India's diverse cuisines.
Punjab contains two main groups: most people speak Punjabi, some Seraiki.
Two years ago a study by a university in Punjab suggested that as much as 70% of young Punjabi men were addicted to drugs or alcohol.
Army rule shifted the centre of power further from them still, for the army is largely Punjabi and Pathan, and those groups reaped the benefits of soldierly rule.
Court officials were unaware, because they could not read Punjabi.
"India is at the cusp of evolution as a country that is attractive to a lot of people, " said Ruchir Punjabi, a website entrepreneur with offices in Sydney and Bangalore.
The chief reason Mr Cameron went to Amritsar was because of the large numbers of voters of Punjabi origin back in the UK. So he had to say something about Jallianwala Bagh, officials say.
In the 2011 campaign, Conservatives also promised targeted tax cuts for families that appealed to suburban immigrants, recruited more minority candidates than any other party and ran campaign ads in Mandarin, Punjabi, Cantonese and other languages.
India's polarities killed both protagonists: the Mahatma was shot by a Hindu fanatic enraged by his solicitude towards Muslims, Indira by her Sikh bodyguards, provoked by an attack she authorised on Punjabi separatists who had seized Sikhism's holiest site.
Maj Tahir says that the nazim system offers voters unique access to the levers of power that they do not have when their political rulers are far away in the Punjabi power centre of Lahore, or the national capital Islamabad.
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