A Case of Exploding Mangoes `targeted by authorities after Urdu translation`
(The Guardian Books News)

Mohammed Hanif reports that his Pakistani publisher was raided not long after his 2008 satire became available in the national languageCopies of a decade-old, Booker-longlisted satire about the death of Pakistan´s military dictator General Zia ul-Haq has been seized in a raid on the offices of its Pakistani publisher just weeks after it was finally translated into Urdu, according to its author Mohammed Hanif.Hanif, a British Pakistani journalist and author, attributed the raid to `some people claiming to be from the ISI`, Pakistan´s military spy agency the Inter-Services Intelligence directorate. They `barged into my Urdu publisher Maktaba Daniyal offices [and] confiscated all copies of Urdu translation of A Case of Exploding Mangoes,` Hanif said on Twitter, adding that they also threatened the publisher´s manager, demanded information about his whereabouts and threatened to return the next day to get lists of booksellers selling the novel. Related: Mohammed Hanif: `To write about politics in Pakistan, you have to go abroad´ Continue reading...