Obaid siddiqui biography

Kalim Siddiqui, Ph.D. (15 September 1931 - 18 April 1996) was a PakistaniBritish writer and Islamicactivist. He gained notability for his controversial support of the fatwa issued by Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini, which called for the assassination of British author Sir Salman Rushdie amidst the Satanic Verses controversy.^[1][2][3]

Early life

Siddiqui was born in the village of Dondi Lohara, CP, British India on 15 September 1931.

He became increasing involved in politics as a teenager, when during a small demonstration close to his home town a bullet fired by a British soldier barely missed him, killing the youth behind him.^[4] After the creation of the state of Pakistan he briefly joined the Khilafat Movement in Karachi and became the editor of its newspaper, The Independent Leader.

Along with other members of the movement, he moved to London in the early 1950s. In the mid 1960s he put himself through college a