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Hijackers figure in list sent to Pak.
By Vinay Kumar
NEW DELHI, JAN. 4. The much-talked about list of 20 fugitives submitted by New Delhi to Islamabad consists of hijackers, terrorists, narcotics traffickers and criminals who have taken shelter in Pakistan.
The list, submitted to the Pakistan Deputy High Commissioner here on December 31, includes the names of five hijackers of the IC-814 flight of the Indian Airlines which was commandeered to Kandahar on December 24, 1999 and five prime accused in the Bombay serial bomb blasts on March 12, 1993.
According to highly-placed Government sources, terrorists and underworld elements who have been named by India are those against whom Interpol alerts have also been issued. Both the Bombay serial blasts and IC-814 hijacking cases have been probed by the CBI which has also filed chargesheets.
The five prime accused in the Bombay serial blasts case are: Dawood Ibrahim Kaskar, Memon Ayub, Memon Ibrahim, Pathan Izaz and Chhota Shakeel. The five hijackers of IC-814 flight, also wanted for murder and kidnapping are: Athar Ibrahim alias Chief, Azhar Yusuf alias Mohammad Salim, Mistri Zahur Ibrahim alias Bhola, Sayed Shahid Akhtar alias Doctor and Shakir Mohammed alias Shankar.
Sources said that two members of the Dawood Ibrahim gang wanted for conspiracy to target the Union Home Minister also figure in the list. They are: Ishaq Atta Hussain alias Ali Moosa and Sagir Sabir Ali Shaikh.
The chief of the Jaish-e-Mohammad, Maulana Masood Azhar, who was released by India in exchange for the safe return of the IC-814 hostages, and Salauddin alias Mohammad Yusuf Shah, supreme commander of the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, have been named in the list. While Masood Azhar has been named as the prime accused in the December 13 attack on Parliament House, Salauddin is wanted for terrorist acts perpetrated in India. Syed Abdul Karim alias Hakimji, an activist of the Lashkar-e-Taiba, responsible for the bombings in Northern India during 1996-97 has also been named.
Others wanted for various terrorist acts are Punjab militants belonging to the Dal Khalsa, Babbar Khalsa International and some other outfits. Gajinder Singh, leader of Dal Khalsa, is wanted for hijacking an Indian Airlines plane in 1981.
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