A Pakistani model has sparked controversy with her 'bare-head' pictures taken at the premises of the Kartarpur Gurdwara Darbar Sahib located in the Punjab province of Pakistan.
Though the existence of demand for a separate Sikh state can be traced back to the period before Indian Independence, the violence associated with the demand had its origins only in the late 1970s, that surged through 1980s and early 1990s.