Muslims Storm U.S. Mission in Pakistan
By Barbara Crossette, Special To the New York Times
Feb. 13, 1989
Five people were killed and as many as 80 were reported injured today as the center of Islamabad was turned into a battlefield when several thousand Muslims marched on the American cultural center, throwing stones and demanding the death of an author and the banning of a book.
The demonstration today, the culmination of protests all over Pakistan, was provoked by the publication in the United States of ''The Satanic Verses'' by Salman Rushdie. The book was banned here last year. Last week, the Pakistani National Assembly voted unanimously to condemn the book and its author as ''derogatory to the Holy Prophet and Islamic teaching.''
Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto's Justice Minister supported the condemnation, which also called on the Government to urge Britain and the United States to stop publication of the work, a fantasy that involves characters identifiable from Muslim history.
5 Pakistanis Die in Anti-American Riot
By MARK FINEMAN
Feb. 13, 1989 12 AM PT
Times Staff Writer
ISLAMABAD, Pakistan — Five demonstrators were shot and killed Sunday and 80 people were seriously injured when Pakistani riot police opened fire on thousands of protesters attacking the U.S. cultural center here after a demonstration against the British novel “The Satanic Verses” turned into a rock-throwing anti-American melee.