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Saturday, December 25, 1999, Chandigarh, India
   
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Hijacked IA plane lands in Afghanistan
25 hostages released
DUBAI, Dec 25 — Hijackers of an Indian Airlines plane, suspected to be militants, offloaded three bodies and set free 25 Indian passengers at Minhat air force base, near here, this morning before forcing the plane with 161 persons to take off and land at Kandahar in Afghanistan.
(News updated at 12 noon IST)

Relatives rush to airport

Passengers’ list
A picture taken from Dubai television of released hostages from the Indian Airlines hijacked plane at al-Manhad military Base, about 40 km southeast of the Gulf emirate of Dubai, early 25 December 1999. The AirBus 300 plane was seized by heavily armed hijackers in Nepal and ended up around midnight 24 December 1999 in the United Arab Emirates, where the plane was refuelled before leaving for the Afghan city of Kandahar after releasing 25 hostages. —AFP photo
Timeline
24 Dec, 1055 GMT: Plane leaves Kathmandu
1130 GMT: Hijackers ask to be flown to Lahore in Pakistan
1331 GMT: Plane lands at Amritsar, India
1437 GMT: Lands at Lahore without Pakistani permission.
2010 GMT: Lands at Al-Minhad military air base near Dubai, UAE
25 Dec, 0055 GMT: Some hostages released and plane takes off
0303 GMT: Plane lands at Kandahar, Afghanistan


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PM lambasts Rabri govt
PATNA, Dec 24 — Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee today virtually kicked off the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) campaign for the ensuing Assembly elections in Bihar launching a scathing attack on the state government for its “failure” to check Naxalite violence and speed up economic development.

Women’s Bill: govt for consensus
NEW DELHI, Dec 24 — The government today rejected the suggestion of the Samajwadi Party to dilute the provisions of the women’s reservation Bill to peg down the quota at 10 per cent instead of the proposed 33 per cent saying “10 per cent is no reservation”.

PWG blasts rly station in Bihar
PATNA, Dec 24 — Peoples War Group extremists made yet another major attack on the Railways, bombing the Varuna station on the Arrah-Buxar section of the Eastern Railway’s Danapur Division late last night.

Khurana is BJP Vice-President
NEW DELHI, Dec 24 — Mr Ratan Lal Kataria, MP from Ambala, and Mr Chintaman Vanga from Maharashtra were today appointed all-India Secretaries of the Bharatiya Janata Party today.

Five-day remand for Aggarwal
NEW DELHI, Dec 24 — A designated city court today remanded former Enforcement Deputy Director Ashok Aggarwal, arrested on charges of extortion, bribery, forgery and causing wrongful confinement, in five days’ CBI custody to facilitate his interrogation.


CM inaccessible at ‘durbar’
CHAKFATEHSINGHWALA (Bathinda), Dec 24 — A section of complainants and aggrieved persons, including activists of the Bhartiya Kisan Union (Ekta), activists of the Democratic Teachers Front and members of the Unemployed ETT Teachers Union and the Lok Morcha were not allowed to proceed towards this village where the Chief Minister held an “open durbar” today under unprecedented security arrangements.

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