Pakistan says Rushdie knighthood may spark terrorism
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Pakistan demanded on Monday that Britain withdraw a knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie, as a government minister said the honour gave a justification for suicide attacks by Muslims.
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A spike in attacks in February has raised questions about the military leadership of General Musharraf.
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Radical Islamic groups in Pakistan hold a day of protests over the UK's decision to knight author Salman Rushdie.
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Iran's foreign ministry criticises Britain for giving a knighthood to the author Salman Rushdie.
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Legislators in Islamist-ruled northwest Pakistan Tuesday 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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Pakistan officially protested to Britain on Tuesday over a top award to Salman Rushdie that has sparked renewed anger among some Muslims over &quot;The Satanic Verses&quot; author.
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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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A suspected bombing plot in Barcelona is indicative of an important threat coming from Pakistan, officials said.
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Pakistani lawmakers passed a government-backed resolution Monday demanding Britain withdraw the knighthood awarded to author Salman Rushdie, condemning the honor as an insult to the religious sentiments of Muslims.
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Terror outrage could strengthen ties between Bhutto and Musharraf, reports Declan Walsh in Karachi.
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Al-Qaeda second-in-command Ayman al-Zawahiri said on Tuesday the group is preparing a &quot;precise response&quot; to Britain&#39;s decision to bestow a knighthood on author Salman Rushdie.
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Pakistan's minister of religious affairs should be dismissed for suggesting suicide bombs were a justified response to a British knighthood for Salman Rushdie, former prime minister Benazir Bhutto said.
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Taliban groups based in Pakistan could pose significant international terrorism threat, analysts at a leading thinktank warn
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PAKISTAN&#39;S president has warned that the war on terror has made the world a more dangerous place. Gen. Pervez Musharraf said the world was &quot;absolutely&quot; less safe because military action had done nothing to tackle the causes of terrorism.
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TEHRAN -- Iran accused Britain yesterday of insulting Islamic values by knighting Salman Rushdie, whose novel "The Satanic Verses" prompted the late Iranian Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini to issue a fatwa death warrant against him.
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A Pakistani minister who caused outrage by remarking that author Salman Rushdie&#39;s knighthood justified suicide attacks said Thursday that he is set to visit Britain next month.
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Muslim radicals burned an effigy of Queen Elizabeth on Tuesday as Pakistan summoned the British ambassador over Salman Rushdie&#39;s knighthood and Iranian hardliners turned their fury on the monarch.