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Sunday, December 26, 1999, Chandigarh, India
   
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Hijackers seek five militants’ release
NEW DELHI, Dec 25 — The Taliban militia in Afghanistan tonight said the hijackers of the Indian Airlines aircraft were Kashmiri militants demanding release of five of their colleagues from Indian jails, according to a report from Islamabad.

Ailing hostage allowed medical aid
UN team leaves for Kandahar
ISLAMABAD, Dec 26 — Hijackers of the Indian Airlines plane allowed an ailing passenger to go out of the aircraft for medical aid even as a UN delegation headed for the Taliban headquarters to help resolve the ordeal.


AL MINHAD: A young boy cries as he gets on a bus on the tarmac at Al Minhad Military airbase, about 30 km southeast of Dubai, UAE, after being released from the hijacked Indian Airlines plane in this image taken from television on Saturday. The hijackers of the aircraft, an Airbus A300, released a group of 27 persons, including women, children and injured, before they left the United Arab Emirates after refuelling. — AP/PTI

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From Hari Jaisingh
NEW DELHI, Dec 25 — The hijacking of the IA Kathmandu-New Delhi flight has once again exposed the vulnerability of India’s system of intelligence (external and internal), security, crisis management and responsive communication. For a country which has borne the brunt of as many as 12 hijackings, the latest episode is a poor commentary on its house-keeping.

Blunder committed in Amritsar: Gill
NEW DELHI, Dec 25 — Former Punjab Police chief, Mr K.P.S. Gill today said that the Indian authorities committed a “great blunder” in allowing the hijacked IA plane fly away from Amritsar.
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Nepal admits lapses
NEW DELHI, Dec 25 — Nepalese Prime Minister Krishna Prasad Bhattarai today conceded that security lapse at Tribubhan International Airport had led to the hijacking.

NSG commandos in readiness
NEW DELHI, Dec 25 — The government today put the commandos of the National Security Guard on high alert and have directed all major airports in northern India to be ready to handle any situation in case the hijacked aircraft lands in the country.		 Lashkar denies hand

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Security personnel flummoxed
RAJASANSI (Amritsar), Dec 25 — The hijacking of an Indian Airlines Airbus (Flight 814) yesterday was the fifth that Rajasansi airport has witnessed in the past 15 years.


Freed passengers’ tales of woe
NEW DELHI, Dec 25 — Everything was going on smoothly in the Indian Airlines airbus for the first 30 minutes after it took off from Kathmandu till a masked man from the rear of the plane shouted that the aircraft had been hijacked.		 A released Indian hijack hostage at Dubai airport on Saturday. — AP/PTI

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