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Free 35 more militants: hijackers
Demand $ 200 million
NEW DELHI, Dec 28 — For the first time since the hijack crisis began, the hijackers detailed their demands — the release of 35 more hardcore militants from Indian jails and $ 200 million as the price for freeing the more than 150 passengers hostage on board the Indian Airlines plane.

Ball in India’s court: UN official
ISLAMABAD, Dec 28 — Senior UN official Erik de Mul today said that the hijackers of the Indian Airlines plane had conveyed their demands and it was up to the Indian Government now to bring the five-day long hijack crisis to an end.		 A Taliban soldier hands over water to someone inside the hijacked plane
A Taliban soldier hands over a bottle of locally filled water to someone inside the hijacked Indian Airlines plane on Tuesday at the Kandahar airport in Afghanistan. — AP/PTI
No progress in talks, say Taliban
KANDAHAR, Afghanistan, Dec 28 — Afghanistan’s ruling Taliban movement today said it saw little progress in talks between hijackers of an Indian Airlines jet and Indian negotiators.

Services chiefs meet PM
NEW DELHI, Dec 28— The three defence chiefs today met the Prime Minister, Mr Atal Behari Vajpayee, and made their services available, if there was need for them to be involved in the crucial Crisis Management Group (CMG) handling the hijacking crisis.

Who ordered refuelling at Amritsar?
CHANDIGARH, Dec 28 —While the entire focus at the moment is on negotiations between the hijackers and Indian officials at Kandahar, nearer at home the intelligence agencies are engaged in tracking down one J. Lall, say top government sources.
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Religious leaders offer help
NEW DELHI, Dec 28 — Naib imam of Jama Masjid Syed Ahmed Bukhari today said that Muslim leaders were willing and ready to help the government in any way to end the five-day-old hostage crisis.
Suicide threat by hostages’ kin
Kids decry hijacking

3 militants killed at SOG camp
SRINAGAR, Dec 28 — At least six police personnel, including a Deputy Superintendent of Police, were killed and over 12 others injured in the militants’ attack on the headquarters of Special Operations Group (SOG) of the state police here during the past 24 hours.

One killed in Jammu blast
JAMMU, Dec 28 — At least one person was killed and two injured when a powerful bomb planted by suspected militants exploded late tonight at a bus terminus here, about 6 km from a jail housing Maulana Masood Azhar whose release has been demanded by hijackers of an Indian Airlines plane.


Sonia Gandhi regrets 1984 events
AMRITSAR, Dec 28 — The Congress President, Mrs Sonia Gandhi, today expressed deep anguish and regret over the 1984 happenings, which she said should not have happened.


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