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What happened in Pakistan was that people were told: You're all Muslim, so now you're a country. As we saw in 1971 with the Bangladesh secession, the answer to that was: 'Oh no, we're not.'
Salman Rushdie
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Salman Rushdie
Age: 77
Born: 1947
Born: June 19
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Joseph Anton
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