KATHMANDU: Protests over SaIman Rushdie’s “the Satanic Verses” found their echo in Nepal when the minority Muslim community in the Himalayan Kingdom Sunday demanded a ban on. Its publication by a local vernacular weekly, which had been serialising it for some time past.
A large delegation of the Muslims from all over the country met Nepalese prime minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai and urged him to intervene and stop publication of the serial.
The delegation presented a copy of the Nepali weekly to Bhattarai, saying the paper had already published 28 installments of the excerpts from the book, and might soon come out in Nepali language.
Bhattarai assured the delegation which included the Imam of the mosque here, that he would look into the matter.
Article extracted from this publication >> June 8, 1990
