[Dog Gone]

I never paid much attention to India or Pakistan before 9-11 and all this is very interesting. You seem to be a vocal advocate for the Sikhs, although I don't know much about them. I don't even know where Khalistan is within India's borders. But aren't Sikhs the ones who assassinated Gandhi?

I find it increasingly difficult to find any good guys anywhere in Pakistan or in India. Everybody seems intolerant and ready to take it out on somebody different. There are even Baptist guerrillas in northeast India, for pete's sake.

Obviously, it's the extremists in every movement or political party who get the headlines, and they don't really define the average person on the street who just wants to make a living somehow. But it's difficult, at least for me, to point at one group and say, "Aha! Those are the good guys!"

[TBP]

Yes, teh two people who assassinated Indira Gandhi were Sikhs. They did so in retaliation for Gandhi''s government launching a military attack 18 years ago this week on the Golden Temple in Amritsar, the center and seat of the Sikh religion. This is much like attacking the Vatican.

After they killed her, they laid down their arms and turned themselves in.

As for where Khalistan is, it's centered around Punjab, in the northwest, just south of Kashmir and on the border with Pakistan. Khalistan would be an excellent buffer between India and Pakistan.