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| Advani claim about Kandahar hijacking deal refuted |
| 2009-08-29 |
| [Dawn] A senior member of the Vajpayee government has taken exception to an assertion by former home minister Lal Kishan Advani that he was not part of the decision to release three terrorists and to send then foreign minister Jaswant Singh to Kandahar for securing release of 166 hostages who were on board an Indian airliner commandeered to Afghanistan, in Dec 1999, while it was on a flight from Kathmandu (Nepal) to New Delhi. |
| Posted by:Fred |