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NEW DELHI — Sir Salman Rushdie, the author, was facing fresh threats to his life yesterday following his knighthood. A senior minister in the Pakistani government said the decision to knight Mr. Rushdie was a justification for suicide bombing, after the Parliament in Islamabad condemned the honor as “blasphemous and insulting” to the world’s Muslims.
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|NEW DELHI — Sir Salman Rushdie, the author, was facing fresh threats to his life yesterday following his knighthood. A senior minister in the Pakistani government said the decision to knight Mr. Rushdie was a justification for suicide bombing, after the Parliament in Islamabad condemned the honor as “blasphemous and insulting” to the world’s Muslims.
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