Pledges support to PM's
peace initiative
Hashim Qureshi returns to India,
surrenders
before
Delhi Police
NEW
DELHI, Dec 29: Pledging his full support to
Centres peace initiative in Jammu and Kashmir,
Hashim Qureshi, founding member of JKLF, who hijacked an
Indian Airlines plane to Pakistan in 1971, made a
dramatic return to India today after 30 years of exile,
and was arrested after a four hour-long drama at Delhi
airport. Fortyseven-year old Srinagar-born Qureshi flew
into the capital by a Scandinavian Airlines flight from
Copenhagen and surrendered to the Immigration
authorities, who after four hours handed him over to
Delhi Police. "Main Yahan Vajpayeeji Ke Peace
Initiative Ki Himayat Karne Aya Hoon (I have come here to
support Vajpayees peace initiative)," Qureshi
shouted towards a battery of waiting ....more
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