Date 28-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan foreign minister Wakeel Ahmad has said that they did what was their moral responsibility to save the lives of innocent passengers, adding it was now the responsibility of the Indian officials and the hijackers to reach a deal to resolve the issue. He said th...

Date 27-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): An Indian delegation arrived in Kabul to hold talks with the hijackers of an Indian plane here on 21-12-99. The Indian delegation, comprising above than two dozens of people seems to be an authorized delegation, which would hold with the hijackers. The people...

Date 27-12-99 KANDAHAR (AIP): Talks between Indian delegation, UN officials and hijackers were underway through the tower of the airport, and the deadline fixed by the hijackers expires today 27-121-99. No change was seen in the situation, the Taliban officials were guarding the plane and sec...

Date 27-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban supreme leader Mullah Muhammad Omar has said that they had asked the hijackers to either surrender before the Taliban or release the hijacked people. He said they were now waiting for the response and if there was no response then they would think about the n...

Date 26-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): A team of United Nations has arrived in Kandahar at 9:45 (PST) to hold talks with the hijackers of an Indian plane. The delegation has not yet started talks with the hijackers but it is expected that the talks would start soon. Afghan ambassador to Pakistan i...

Date 26-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Talks between Taliban and an UN delegation were underway in Kandahar Airport about the Indian hijacked plane. Sources said that when the UN delegation arrived in Kandahar they refused to hold talks with hijackers. Instead of holding talks with the hijackers, th...

Date 26-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Afghan Foreign Minister Wakeel Ahmad said the UN negotiating team contacted the hijackers though a wireless set and the hijackers released one of passengers as a goodwill gesture. Wakeel said hijackers told the UN team that if an authorized team was sent to them fo...

Date 26-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said that no response on the part of Indian government and the UN refusal to play an arbitration role between the hijackers and India have put the lives of all the passengers on at stake. Afghan foreign minister Wakeel Ahmad said that they tried their best...

Date 25-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said they provided food and water to the passengers on the request of the Indian hijacked plane. Mualvi Wakeel Ahmad, Afghan foreing minister, said they were in contact with the Indian government and it was not cleat as yet that what they would do with the p...

Date 25-12-99 PESHAWAR (AIP): Taliban said that the Indian government was insisting to hold talks with hijackers and resolve the issue through peaceful means in order to save the lives of passengers. Afghan foreign minister Mualvi Wakeel Ahmad told AIP that the India government wanted to solve t...