By W/Reported by Linda Williams

The hot flick in Pakistan these days is the 3 1/2-hr. International Guerrillas. It features a Muslim-loathing terrorist who gets killed by a retributive bolt of divine lightning. So take that, Salman Rushdie! Such is the name of the evil protagonist (played by Afzal Ahmed), not to mention that of the author of The Satanic Verses, which so angered Muslims that Ayatollah Khomeini threatened him with death in 1989. Britain has barred the movie as libelous, but the Muslim producers intend to fight back. They have an unlikely defender: Rushdie, in hiding for 17 months, says the film "should be in the public domain" and any offense dealt with according to due process of law.