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Omar Abdullah cited a previous case involving Rubaiya Syed (File) Srinagar: Omar Abdullah, former Chief Minister of Jammu and Kashmir, shed light on the difficult decisions faced by his father, Farooq Abdullah, during the 1999 IC814 hijacking incident. He highlighted the tough decisions faced by his father, Farooq Abdullah, during that time. In an interview…
It was around 8:30 or 9 in the evening on the last day of 1999. I was in Copenhagen, the capital of Denmark, and was visiting a fellow Bihari friend, Tabish Khair – now an established novelist and poet – to celebrate the New Year festivities. While waiting for others to get ready, I switched…
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Harkat ul-Mujahideen had links in the past with Osama. At 4.53 pm on December 24, 1999, Indian Airlines’ flight IC-814 took off from Kathmandu for Delhi. A two-hour long flight lasted almost eight days when terrorists of Pakistan-based outfit Harkat-ul-Mujahideen (HuM) hijacked the Airbus A300 aircraft. The last day of the 20th century was indeed…
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A still from the web series ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’. | Photo Credit: PTI Pooja Kataria, a passenger on the IC-814 flight hijacked in 1999 says viewers should approach the recently released web series based on the incident as entertainment rather than sparking controversy. Sharing her review of the Anubhav Sinha directorial limited series…
‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’, directed by Anubhav Sinha, was released on Netflix on August 29. New Delhi: Netflix’s latest web series, ‘IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack’, has sparked a controversy. The show, which is based on the 1999 hijacking of an Indian Airlines flight by terrorists, has been accused of distorting facts, whitewashing terrorism,…
