IC814 Hijack - Who's the terrorist whose body hijackers sought?
Shura, the Taliban supreme Council, intervened and called a meeting. It ultimately came to the conclusion that the hijackers' demand for money was unacceptable and ought to be rejected. The Taliban authorities threatened to have the hijackers evacuate Kandahar if they didn't cooperate.
Most of the original demands were dropped, and in the end, india exchanged three terrorists for every passenger on IC 814.
In 1999, the Taliban ruled Afghanistan, much as they do now.
As per the book 'IC 814 Hijacked: The Inside Story' by Anil K. Jaggia and Saurabh Shukla, Taliban head Mullah Omar requested that his foreign minister, Wakil ahmed Muttawakil, continue the discussions and communicate with the chief hijacker for half an hour.
He was taken into custody by the indian Border Security Force (BSF) in june 1994 together with terrorist Masood Azhar, who was the general secretary of the terror group Harkat-ul-Ansar at the time.
Afghani was tough and fragile-looking; he had even battled the Russians. Lt Gen arjun Ray, the Brigadier General Staff (BGS) at the time, called him the "biggest catch".
In 1993, the Harkat-ul-Mujahideen merged with the Harkat-ul-Jehad-al-Islami (HuJI), another terrorist group, to establish the Harkat-ul-Ansar (HuA). This was the devious scheme of pakistan to incite further unrest and violence in Jammu and Kashmir.
Initially, in november 1993, Nasrullah Mansur Langrayal, the leader of the erstwhile Harkat-ul Mujahideen, was taken into custody. Azhar of Harkat-ul-Ansar and Sajjad Afghani, the head of the group's J&K section, were taken into custody in srinagar in march 1994.
Chief leader of Harkat-ul-Ansar Sajjad Afghani was detained at Jammu's Kotbalwal Jail, a maximum-security facility.
On July 15, 1999, he was shot and killed in an attempt to escape out of jail.