{"id":47641,"date":"2022-08-19T10:00:01","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T01:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/salaman-rushdie-attack-was-unjustifiable-says-pakistans-imran-khan"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:00:01","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T01:00:01","slug":"salman-rushdie-attack-was-unjustifiable-says-pakistans-imran-khan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=47641","title":{"rendered":"Salman Rushdie attack was unjustifiable, says Pakistan\u2019s Imran Khan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a wide-ranging Guardian interview, the former prime minister say he understands anger The Satanic Verses created \u2018but you can\u2019t justify what happened\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has condemned the attack on Salman Rushdie, describing it as \u201cterrible\u201d and \u201csad\u201d, and saying that while the anger of the Islamic world at Rushdie\u2019s book The Satanic Verses was understandable, it could not justify the assault.<\/p>\n<p>Khan also said he expected Afghan women to \u201cassert their rights\u201d in the face of Taliban restrictions in a Guardian interview in which he sought to moderate his reputation as a firebrand. He is fighting for his political survival after being ousted from office in April. Khan says his staff and followers are being persecuted and intimidated and he is battling eight-year-old charges of illicit campaign financing that could lead to him being banned from politics.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2022\/aug\/19\/salaman-rushdie-attack-was-unjustifiable-says-pakistans-imran-khan\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a wide-ranging Guardian interview, the former prime minister say he understands anger The Satanic Verses created \u2018but you can\u2019t justify what happened\u2019Pakistan\u2019s former prime minister Imran Khan has condemned the attack on Salman Rushdie, describing &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3271,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[359,60,925,61],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-imran-khan","category-pakistan","category-salman-rushdie","category-south-and-central-asia"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3271"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=47641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47677,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47641\/revisions\/47677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}