Islamabad: Pakistan's face has once again been exposed in the case of harbouring most wanted terrorists. Dreaded terrorist and ic-814 hijacker Zahoor Mistri alias Zahid Akhund has been killed in Karachi. He was among the five hijackers of IC-814 in 1999. He was murdered on March 1. Several Pakistani intelligence sources have given this information, but the Pakistani media refrained from giving any information on it.
Let us know that Mistry had been living in Karachi for the past many years with a fake identity by becoming Zahid Akhund. Akhund was the owner of Crescent furniture which was inside The Akhtar Colony in Karachi. According to the report, two armed bike riders were doing a recce of the area where Mistry had a furniture shop. After roaming the streets of Akhtar Colony, an unidentified bike rider entered the furniture godown and targeted Mistry. However, local news agency Geo News reported the attack, but without his name. The report neither mentioned Mistry's name nor was there any information about his terror activities. His murder was reported as the murder of just one businessman.
What was the Kandahar hijack?
On December 24, 1999, Indian Airlines flight IC-814, which was taking off from Kathmandu, Nepal's capital, to Delhi, was hijacked. At 5.30 pm, terrorists of the terrorist organization Harkat-ul-Mujahideen hijack it. By evening, everyone knows, a flight to India has been hijacked. Landing in Amritsar, Lahore and Dubai, the terrorists take the plane to Kandahar in Afghanistan. There were 176 passengers on board, of which 27 were abandoned in Dubai. But a passenger named Rupin Katyal was stabbed to death and many were injured. The passengers had started protesting on the plane. The Taliban deployed their armed fighters near the hijacked aircraft in an attempt to prevent Indian special forces from attacking the aircraft. The kidnapping continued for eight days and ended after India released three terrorists – Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh (who was later arrested for the murder of Daniel Pearl) and Maulana Masood Azhar (who later founded Jaish-e-Muhammad). Now the Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim, who has been killed in Karachi, was involved in this plane hijack.
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