Karachi: Zahoor Mistry, the terrorist involved in the hijack of the Indian plane IC-814 in Afghanistan’s Kandahar in 1999, was shot dead in Karachi, Pakistan.
According to reports, he was reportedly killed in his house in an attack by two bike-borne assailants on March 1.
Zahoor was allegedly associated with terror outfit Jaish-e-Muhammad.
IC-814 aircraft of Indian Airlines was hijacked by five hijackers from Nepal on 24 December, 1999.
The hijacking of the Indian Airlines flight was plotted to get terrorists, Jaish-e-Mohammed chief Maulana Masood Azhar, leader of defunct terror group Al Umar Mujahideen, Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, and British-born al-Qaeda leader Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh, released from Indian prisons.
The hijackers kept the 176 passengers of the IC-814 aircraft hostage for seven days.
The flight took off from Kathmandu and was headed to Delhi but was hijacked and taken to Kandahar in Afghanistan.
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