Guest guest Posted October 4, 2001 Report Share Posted October 4, 2001 Hijack drama aimed at discrediting us: Pak ISLAMABAD: Pakistan on Wednesday alleged that the "hijack" of an Alliance Air flight from Mumbai to Delhi was a "drama" stage managed by Indian intelligence agencies to discredit Islamabad. Reporting on the incident, state-owned Pakistan Television (PTV) said the "drama" proved right an alert sounded by Pakistani intelligence agencies on October 2 that India was chalking out a plan to enact a hijack in order to project Islamabad in bad light in the international community. The television said intelligence reports circulated on October 2 by private news agency NNI and published in some of the newspapers on Tuesday cautioned that Indian intelligence agencies planned to hijack a plane of a big airline and bring it to Pakistan to get Islamabad declared a terrorist state. Pakistan government had also issued orders not to permit the plane to enter the country's airspace in the event of an aircraft being commandeered there, it said. The PTV report alleged that the "hijack" drama followed attempts by India to attribute the October 1 suicide bombing outside Jammu and Kashmir assembly to Islamic militant outfit Jaish-e-Mohammad. ( PTI ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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