Ex-Diplomat Gopalaswami Parthasarathy Blames Pakistan for 1999 IC 814 Hijacking, Not al-Qaeda

Brief by Shorts91 Newsdesk / 07:09pm on 04 Sep 2024,Wednesday India

In an exclusive interview with India Today TV, former Indian High Commissioner to Pakistan Gopalaswami Parthasarathy asserted that Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) was deeply involved in the 1999 hijacking of Indian Airlines flight IC 814. Parthasarathy refuted claims linking al-Qaeda to the hijacking, emphasizing that Pakistani terrorists were responsible and that ISI collaborated throughout the crisis. He criticized Pakistan's response as "duplicitous" and detailed how the Pakistani government obstructed India's attempts to resolve the situation. The discussion follows the recent Netflix release, "IC 814: The Kandahar Hijack," which reexamines the event.

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