Pak has lot to explain on hijacking 8212; Peace panel

Asked why the Taliban Government, which is a close ally of Pakistan, had failed to release names of the hijackers, he said that if the plane had been hijacked by Indian agents, as alleged by Islamabad, there was golden opportunity to do this in Kandahar.

He said the Taliban regime also sympathised with the hijackers by first keeping their identities secret and then not disclosing the place where the hijackers intended to take the plane next.

Questioning the Pakistani claims, he said that if India had masterminded the hijacking, would it not have publicised the affiliation of hijackers to one of the Pakistan militant outfits.