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Monday, December 27, 1999, Chandigarh, India
   
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Hijackers for direct talks with India
Russia calls for Security Council meeting
UN team back in Pak
ISLAMABAD, Dec 26 — Hijackers of the Indian Airlines aircraft today handed over a sick passenger to a UN team as New Delhi declared it would examine “all options” to end the two-day old ordeal of 160 hostages.
NEW DELHI: The body of Rupin Katyal, killed by hijackers of the Indian Airlines aircraft, at the Indira Gandhi International Airport in New Delhi on Saturday. — PTI photo
Govt to examine all options: Jaswant
NEW DELHI, Dec 26 — The government will examine “all options” for the earliest termination of the hijacking of the Indian Airlines aircraft and safe return of the hostages, External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh said today.

Efforts to secure release: PM
NEW DELHI, Dec 26 — The Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee today assured that all efforts were being made to secure a safe release of the passengers on the hijacked Indian Airlines plane, now held at Kandahar, Afghanistan.
S.D. Sharma dead
NEW DELHI, Dec 26 — A former President, Dr Shankar Dayal Sharma, died here tonight at a private hospital following a cardiac arrest, doctors attending on him said. He was 81.

Cabinet reviews situation
NEW DELHI, Dec 26 — India will seek a report on the situation in Kandahar on the hijacked aircraft from its permanent representative to the United Nations.
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Hostages’ kin storm briefing
NEW DELHI, Dec 26 — It was time when some of the harassed relatives of the passengers onboard the hijacked aircraft decided to make the government hear.

Rupin Katyal cremated
GURGAON,Dec 26 — Even as Rachna Katyal was still in the captivity of the hijackers of the Indian Airlines plane, her in-laws and other relatives cremated her husband, Rupin Katyal, who was stabbed to death by the hijackers.

Terrorist epicentre shifts: expert
NEW DELHI, Dec 26 — The centre of gravity of international terrorist activities has shifted from West Asia to South Asia with Pakistan and Afghanistan being the epicentre, a strategic analyst said today.

Plane’s pilot under great stress
NEW DELHI, Dec 26 — Captain Devi Sharan, pilot of the hijacked Indian Airlines flight IC-814, will have to depend entirely on his personal judgement and inner strength as no pilot can be trained to handle such a complex situation as he has been faced with, according to fellow pilots.
Capt. Sharan



Hand of cleric’s father?
JAMMU: The police authorities here suspect the hand of Allam Baksh in getting the Indian Airlines plane hijacked from Nepal as to secure release of his only son, Mohd Azhar Masood, who is in Kotbalwal jail here since his arrest in Anantnag five years ago.		 Mohd Azhar MasoodA September 1999 photo taken in Jammu's Kot Bhawal jail shows Pakistani Islamic scholar Moulana Masood Azhar.

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