IC-814 Kandahar Hijack: How Geo-Politics Shaped India’s Decisions & The Outcome

As the world celebrated in 1999, at the dawn of the new millennium, India breathed a sigh of relief, for it had secured the safe release of 189 passengers and crew members of flight IC 814. Five members of the Pakistan-based terror organisation Harkat-ul-Ansar (later known as Harkat-ul-Mujahideen) hijacked the...