'Taliban sympathised with hijackers'

By Our Special Correspondent

NEW DELHI, FEB. 28. The External Affairs Minister, Mr. Jaswant Singh, told the Rajya Sabha today that the Taliban authorities, while adopting an attitude of correct facilitators at Kandahar in dealing with the hijackers of IC-814, consistently and clearly had their sympathies with the hijackers and their other supporters.

In a suo motu statement on the hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight on December 24, the Minister said the Government of India had conveyed to the Taliban that it expected both the hijackers and the three released terrorists to be treated as criminals in conformity with law.

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