Salman Rushdie wrote a novel published in the eighties.
"On 14 February 1989Valentine's Day, and also the day of his close friend Bruce Chatwin's funerala fatw ordering Rushdie's execution was proclaimed on Radio Tehran by Ayatollah Khomeini, the Supreme leader of Iran at the time, calling the book "blasphemous against Islam"
"After Midnight's Children, Rushdie wrote Shame (1983), in which he depicts the political turmoil in Pakistan, basing his characters on Zulfikar Ali Bhutto and General Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq

