{"id":278295,"date":"2022-08-20T07:34:23","date_gmt":"2022-08-20T02:34:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/?p=278295"},"modified":"2022-08-20T07:34:23","modified_gmt":"2022-08-20T02:34:23","slug":"attack-on-salman-rushdie-unjustifiable-says-imran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leadpakistan.com.pk\/news\/attack-on-salman-rushdie-unjustifiable-says-imran\/","title":{"rendered":"Attack on Salman Rushdie \u2018unjustifiable\u2019, says Imran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ISLAMABAD: Former prime minister Imran Khan has condemned the knife attack on Salman Rushdie, an India-born author and winner of the Booker Prize, saying the anger of Muslims against the author was understandable but it still didn\u2019t justify the attack, reported Guardian on Friday. \u201cI think it is terrible, sad,\u201d Imran told the newspaper in a comment on the violent attack that put Rushdie on a ventilator. \u201cRushdie understood, because he came from a Muslim family. He knows the love, respect, reverence of a prophet that lives in our hearts. He knew that.  So the anger I understood, but you can\u2019t justify what happened,\u201d the Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman was quoted by the newspaper as saying.Rushdie, who was born in India to a Muslim Kashmiri family, has lived with a bounty on his head, and spent nine years in hiding under British police protection. 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