January 6, 2000

'Jihadi' commander holds talks with Taliban
BY AIMAL KHAN
Frontier Post
PESHAWAR - An Afghan delegation led by prominent Jihadi commander Sardar Roshan reached Kandahar, Afghanistan, on a peace mission to meet the Taliban authorities on Wednesday last.

Delhi urged to engineer divorce of Islamic allies
S. N. M. ABDI in Calcutta
South China Morning Post
Foreign policy analysts in India are divided as to whether New Delhi can wean Afghanistan's ruling Taleban away from Pakistan following the co-operation extended by the hardline Islamic regime during the Indian Airlines hijack crisis.

Make public information on hijackers: Pakistan
The Times of India
ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Wednesday demanded India make public information it claims to have on the identity of the hijackers of the Indian Airlines aircraft.

INDIAN GOVERNMENT: Union Home Minister's statement at a press conference today
Thursday, January 06, 2000 1:18 PM EST
JAN 6, 2000, M2 Communications - The security forces pursuing the trail of Pakistan's Operation Hijack have made a significant breakthrough.

US official had accused Pak of exporting terror
The Times of India
By Rachna Burman
NEW DELHI: The Clinton administration's seniormost counter-terrorism official, Michael A Sheehan, had late last year testified that Pakistan had become a base for terrorist attacks on India.

Zargar, Azhar back in Pakistan
The Times of India
MUZAFFARABAD: One of three militants freed by India in return for the release of 154 hostages held on a hijacked Indian Airlines plane has arrived in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), witnesses said. The witnesses said Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar

Militants Freed By India Cross Into Pakistan -Azhar
KARACHI (AP)--All three Kashmiri militants freed by India to end the hijacking of an Indian Airlines passenger plane crossed into Pakistan from Afghanistan, one of the released prisoners said Thursday.