Anger mounts in Pakistan over Rushdie award
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Legislators in Islamist-ruled northwest Pakistan condemned Britain&#39;s award of a knighthood to &quot;Satanic Verses&quot; author Salman Rushdie, amid mounting anger over the honour.
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Radical Islamic groups in Pakistan plan protests over the knighthood UK gave to Salman Rushdie.
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World leaders voiced outrage at the  assassination on Thursday of Pakistan's opposition leader  Benazir Bhutto and expressed fears for the fate of the  nuclear-armed state.
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Iran accused Britain on Sunday of insulting Islam by awarding a knighthood to Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant for him.
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A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim  clerics has bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in  response to a British knighthood for the author Salman Rushdie.
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Britain defended on Wednesday its  decision to award a knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie  after Muslims worldwide complained that honoring the author of  &quot;The Satanic Verses&quot; was offensive to Islam.
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A group of hardline Pakistani Muslim clerics said on Thursday they had bestowed a religious title on Osama bin Laden in response to a British knighthood for author Salman Rushdie.
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Pakistan deplored on Monday Britain's decision to award a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" outraged many Muslims around the world
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Islamic hardliners planned protests across Pakistan Friday against Britain&#39;s award of a knighthood to novelist Salman Rushdie.
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World leaders expressed outrage at the assassination of Pakistani opposition leader Benazir Bhutto on Thursday, condemning it as a frontal attack on democracy in the Islamic republic.
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Author Salman Rushdie, issued with a fatwa by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago, and former England cricketer Ian Botham were awarded knighthoods by Britain&#39;s Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday.
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British author Salman Rushdie, who went into hiding for years after Iran's leader ordered him killed, assailed Britain on Sunday for allowing angry Sikh groups to force the cancellation of a Sikh play last week.
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Author Salman Rushdie, issued with a fatwa by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago, and former England cricketer Ian Botham were awarded knighthoods by Queen Elizabeth II on Saturday.
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Angry Islamists held the biggest protests yet against Britain&#39;s knighthood for Salman Rushdie Friday, as an Iranian cleric said the death sentence on the novelist 18 years ago was still valid.
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While some protest against the award of a knighthood to writer Salman Rushdie, others distance themselves from the calls for violent reprisals.
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Pakistan's parliament has condemned the award of a British knighthood to author Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" outraged many Muslims around the world, and said Britain should withdraw the honor.
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Pakistan&#39;s parliament on Monday unanimously condemned Britain&#39;s award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie and asked for the title to be withdrawn to avoid offending Muslims.