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Thursday, December 30, 1999, Chandigarh, India
   
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Hijackers drop two demands
NEW DELHI, Dec 29 — Negotiations between hijackers and Indian officials which commenced this morning ended at midnight tonight inconclusive and was expected to resume early tomorrow. The hijackers dropped their demands for ransom of $ 200 million and exhuming the body of Sajjad Afghani.

Hostages eat, play and wait
KANDAHAR, Dec 29 — Five nights, five countries and one brutal murder later, hostages on a hijacked Indian Airlines plane appear to be holding up reasonably well, say Afghan aviation officials who caught a glimpse inside the plane.		 Staff of Kandahar airport filling bottles
Staff of Kandahar airport filling bottles with water from a tap, for hijacked passengers, on Wednesday, Dec 29, 1999 at Kandahar airport in Afghanistan. — AP/PTI
Order to ‘stop plane’ was given
NEW DELHI, Dec 29 — The government gave clear directions to the authorities in Amritsar to immobilise the hijacked plane, and an oil tanker for refuelling approached it with personnel instructed to deflate the tyres of the aircraft, which then turned round and took off without refuelling.
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We are all dying now, said the pilot
NEW DELHI, Dec 29 — “We are all dying now ..... We are going to take off from here,” the pilot of the hijacked Indian Airlines aircraft said in his last, desperate message to the control towers at Amritsar before taking off at gunpoint.
(Read transcript of the communication.)

Hijackers linked to Al Faran?
NEW DELHI, Dec 29 — The hijackers of the Indian Airlines airbus to Kandahar, who are being identified as hardcore members of the Pakistani mercenary group, Harkat-ul Ansar (HUA), have demanded release of exactly the same number of 36 militants as Al-Faran had done after abducting five foreign tourists.

Dry-run was probably conducted
CHENNAI, Dec 29 — The hijackers of the Indian Airlines IC 814 from Kathmandu probably conducted a dry-run a day before the hijacking actually took place.

USA, China flay hijacking
NEW DELHI, Dec 29 — Several countries, including the USA, Russia, China and Japan, have condemned the hijacking of the Indian Airlines airbus as a crime against humanity and appealed to the Taliban authorities to assist India in securing the release of the 154 hostages on board.

Another attack on SOG camp
SRINAGAR, Dec 29 — Militants struck again at the headquarters of the Special Operations Group (SOG) of the Jammu and Kashmir police here today minutes before the Chief Minister, Dr Farooq Abdullah, was to visit the site which was the scene of a 24-hour gun battle between a group of ultras and security forces that ended last evening.


IAS lobby being ‘targeted’
NEW DELHI, Dec 29 — The IC-814 hijack crisis has triggered off tension between the IAS lobby and the Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister and the National Security Adviser, Mr Brajesh Mishra.


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