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Iran complains to British ambassador on Rushdie's knighthood
Wednesday, June 20, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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The Iran Foreign Ministry summoned the British ambassador to complain over Britain's decision to grant a knighthood to controversial Indian-born author Salman Rushdie, who was accused of blasphemy by Iran's former supreme leader for his book "The Satanic Verses,".
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Pak condemns British knighthood for Rushdie
Monday, June 18, 2007 www.dnaindia.com
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Pakistan's parliament on Monday unanimously condemned Britain's award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie and asked for the title to be withdrawn to avoid offending Muslims. Rushdie, who was awarded the knighthood by Britain's Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday,was forced to go into hiding for a decade after Iran's Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in 1989 issued a death sentence over his book T
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Nilofar Bakhtiar hurt by malicious criticism
Tuesday, May 22, 2007 www.ndtv.com
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Pakistan Tourism Minister Nilofar Bakhtiar has dismissed speculation that she was asked to quit by Prime Minister Shaukat Aziz in the wake of a fatwa by clerics for hugging her French trainer.
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