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THE HIJACK The . The identities of the hijackers were {Link without Title} # Ibrahim Athar from Bahawalpur , Pakistan # Shahid Akhtar Sayed from Gulshan Iqbal, Karachi , Pakistan # Sunny Ahmed Qazi from Defence Area , Karachi, Pakistan # Mistri Zahoor Ibrahim from Akhtar Colony , Karachi, Pakistan # Shakir from Sukkur City The hijackers forced Captain Saran to divert the aircraft over Lucknow and head towards Lahore , Pakistan . But the Lahore airport authorities refused to permit the aircraft to land, forcing it to head back to Amritsar , India . INITIAL LANDINGS AT AMRITSAR , LAHORE AND DUBAI In Amritsar, the hijackers asked for the plane to be refueled, the Indian Government agreed as it would have given it some time to formulate some strategy. But as the refueling was taking time, after waiting for over 25 minutes, the hijackers became suspicious and ordered the captain to fly the plane to Pakistan. As the plane was running very low of fuel, on Indian governments request, Pakistan allowed the plane to be landed and refueled. The hijackers had stabbed one of the 173 passengers prior to landing. The victim was 25-year Mr. Rupin Katyal, who was returning from his honeymoon with his wife Mrs. Rachna Katyal. The plane soon took off towards Afganistan but as none of the airports were equipped for night landings, it was diverted to the military base Al Minhat in the United Arab Emirates . Here, the hijackers were asked to release women and children in exchange for some more fuel, food and water. Some 25 passengers were released along with the body of Mr. Rupin Kayal. In the early hours of Christmas morning, the battered and hijacked plane flew again with a tired crew to Kandahar , Afghanistan . KANDAHAR The Taliban authorities did not cooperate with the Indian authorities to secure a release of the hostages by disallowing Indian commandoes to storm the plane. They refused the request to let Afghan commandoes storm the plane, as well. The Taliban encircled the plane with tanks and heavily armed militia. Negotiations opened up between the Indian government and the hijackers. The government accepted {Link without Title} to release the following terrorists in exchange for the release of the passengers and crew of the flight IC 814.
The erstwhile Indian foreign minister Jaswant Singh had personally gone to Kandahar to take charge of the situation there. RELEASE OF THE HOSTAGES AND CREW After negotiations between the India Government , and the Taliban , the remaining hostages were freed. On December 31 , 1999, the freed hostages of the Indian Airlines Flight 814 were flown back to India on a special plane. The hijackers disappeared into Pakistan in their vehicle before releasing a Taliban official they had taken hostage. The Hindi movie Zameen is the Bollywood adaptation of the Flight IC 814 hijacking. In the movie a flight by ''Indian Airways'' is hijacked to POK by terrorists. FALLOUT The fallout of the hijack of Flight 814 was the apprehension that the administration had accepted the demands of the terrorists. Parallels were cited with the abduction of Mufti Mohammad Sayeed 's daughter in the previous decade. Finally all the hijackers were killed in mysterious circumstances in Pakistan. SEE ALSO EXTERNAL LINKS
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