Soon after the death of Zahoor Mistry, a terrorist behind the hijack of Indian plane IC 814, Zafarullah Jamali, another hijacker in the team has been killed in Karachi, said reports. He was the head of the gang of terrorists behind the hijack.
Earlier, unidentified men riding a motorcycle had killed his fellow-hijacker Zahoor Mistry last week. Mistry had killed Indian passenger, the then newly married Rupin Katyal, when the plane was in Dubai, where the terrorists had forced the plane to land in December 1999.
In a bid to rescue the passengers of the plane that had been diverted from Kathmandu to Kandahar in Afghanistan via Amritsar, the then prime minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee had released the maulana, a terrorist locked in an Indian jail.
As per reports, two bike-borne assailants had shot Mistry dead in Karachi’s Akhtar colony. Pakistan’s Geo TV confirmed the killing of the terrorist. Mistry had been living in Karachi under the fake identity of Zahid Akhund. He operated a furniture business by the name of Crescent Furniture.
Two more terrorists who were involved in the hijack, Ibrahim Azhar and Rauf Asghar, are still alive.
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