New Delhi, July 30 -- The man who stabbed and partially blinded author Salman Rushdie on stage at a New York arts institute in 2022 was found guilty on Wednesday of federal terrorism charges stemming from the attack.

A federal jury on Wednesday convicted Hadi Matar, 28, of supporting Lebanon's Iran-backed militant group Hezbollah, and "engaging in an act of terrorism" when he attacked novelist Salman Rushdie at a New York cultural center in August 2022, news agency AFP reported.

Hadi Matar was convicted of attempting to provide material support to Hezbollah, a US-designated terrorist organisation, as well as engaging in transnational terrorism and providing material support to terrorists.

A US District Court jury in Buffalo, New York, ...