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Indian Airlines flight IC 814 from Kathmandu was hijacked in December 1999. By the time the ordeal ended after eight days, the flight had hopped to Amritsar, Lahore, Dubai, and Kandahar in Afghanistan. The then NDA government escorted three Kashmiri militants to Kandahar in exchange for the safety of the hostages. Prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee allowed Jaswant Singh to greet the released hostages. But for that the three released terrorists had to fly with Jaswant. In effect, India’s Foreign Minister personally escorted three murderous terrorists. Singh further embarrassed himself on the tarmac at Kandahar by hugging the Taliban leadership and parading arm-in-arm with the thugs who then ran Afghanistan. By the time, late at night on December 31, Jaswant and the released hostages landed in Delhi, public opinion was mixed. There was relief that the passengers on IC 814 were safe. But there was widespread revulsion over Jaswant Singh’s behaviour and a growing sense that India had surrendered to blackmail. Till today, there is no coherent hijack policy, though there is increasing debate of late on what to do.
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Source IIPM-Editorial,2006
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