Pakistan summons British ambassador over Rushdie award
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Pakistan summoned the British ambassador to the foreign ministry on Tuesday, officials from both sides said, amid mounting anger at the award of a knighthood to author Salman Rushdie.
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Pakistan's embattled President Pervez Musharraf has sent representatives to London to negotiate with former prime minister Benazir Bhutto on a power-sharing pact, an official and newspapers said on Monday.
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The Russian Foreign Ministry summoned Britain's ambassador Monday, after the British Council defied orders by reopening its offices.
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Britain insisted Wednesday it was right to knight Salman Rushdie for his literary career, adding it was &quot;sorry&quot; if it had caused distress, after protests spread in the Muslim world and a prominent cleric called for the novelist to be killed.
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LONDON -- Britain defended yester day its decision to award knighthood to British author Salman Rushdie after Muslims worldwide contended that honoring the author of "The Satanic Verses" was offensive to Islam.
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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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Islamic hardliners in Pakistan burned an effigy of Queen Elizabeth as senators Tuesday joined mounting calls for London to withdraw Salman Rushdie&#39;s knighthood.
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Pakistan says there is still no news on its ambassador to Afghanistan who is believed to have been kidnapped.
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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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Iran and Pakistan summon UK envoys to protest against the knighthood awarded to novelist 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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Iran on Saturday accused British leaders of &quot;Islamophobia&quot; for knighting Indian-born author Salman Rushdie, who was issued with a death fatwa by Iran&#39;s revolutionary leader 18 years ago.
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Pakistan's National Assembly condemns Britain's award of a knighthood to 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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Dozens of British Muslims gathered outside a mosque Friday to denounce the government's decision to honor author Salman Rushdie with a knighthood, noisily renewing calls for his death and setting fire to a poster depicting an English flag.
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A provincial assembly in Pakistan says Salman Rushdie's knighthood is aimed at hurting Muslim feelings.
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Pakistan has told Britain that Salman Rushdie's knighthood breaches a United Nations resolution aimed at calming tensions between different religions, The Observer has learnt.