04-07-2007, 10:14 AM
Good riddens.
<b>Khalistan in 2007? - Chauhan's 'dream' dies with him</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Khalistan ideologue's 'intuition' - that the separate Sikh nation would become a reality in 2007 - died with him Wednesday morning when the once fiery separatist passed away in a Punjab town following a heart attack.
The 78-year-old Sikh leader spent nearly half his life propagating a separate Sikh state - Khalistan (land of the pure) - after he first inserted an advertisement in the New York Times in Oct 1971 conceptualising an idea.
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'About 5-10 percent Sikhs supported the demand for Khalistan at one stage in the mid-1980s. After 1990, no one has really bothered about it. Now, I don't think anyone has the time or the inclination to even give it a thought,' said retired professor Balbir Singh.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
<b>Khalistan in 2007? - Chauhan's 'dream' dies with him</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Khalistan ideologue's 'intuition' - that the separate Sikh nation would become a reality in 2007 - died with him Wednesday morning when the once fiery separatist passed away in a Punjab town following a heart attack.
The 78-year-old Sikh leader spent nearly half his life propagating a separate Sikh state - Khalistan (land of the pure) - after he first inserted an advertisement in the New York Times in Oct 1971 conceptualising an idea.
...........
'About 5-10 percent Sikhs supported the demand for Khalistan at one stage in the mid-1980s. After 1990, no one has really bothered about it. Now, I don't think anyone has the time or the inclination to even give it a thought,' said retired professor Balbir Singh.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->