Tea with a Wise Afghan Man

The Irrepressible Pashtun Sense of Humor

Pash­tuns like to have a very loose sched­ule. We spend a lot of time trad­ing jokes with oth­er ‘com­rades’, espe­cial­ly if there is green tea and a nice lit­tle Hujra(guest room). No mat­ter how sad or trou­bled we are, we make fun of the mis­ery and laugh about it. Inter­est­ing read in Dawn: The Irre­press­ible Sense of Humor of the Pash­toons Part of the arti­cle: ‘Where is Com­rade Amin, our first Social­ist Leader?’ ‘He’s dead, Comrade.’ ‘And where, Com­rade Infor­ma­tion officer…