Dear James and friends,

my sincere apologies. To me, it is history, and while we looked back, let's only learn the good and not the bad from the past. Quickly, the P in "Pakistan" did stand for Punjab; separatist ideas along the lines of ethnic or religious division are usually big mistakes.

metta,
Yong Peng.

--- In Pali@yahoogroups.com, James Whelan wrote:

It is sad to see this wonderful Pali group facility used for ill-informed political criticism. Pakistan was created at the insistence of a powerful Muslim faction under Jinna, very much against the wishes of the vast majority of the Indians, and of the departing British. As for the comical comment about the Punjab being a province of Pakistan, please look at an atlas. Let's stick to Pali and Buddhism!

> Can we not say the same of Punjab, where the Sikh religion and people originated but now also a province of Pakistan? Pakistan was but the invention of the colonial British government.