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This is an archive article published on August 6, 2009
Kandahar hijack finds mention in Jaswants new book
Former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh has written a book in which Kandahar episode has been refered.
Former External Affairs Minister Jaswant Singh,whose party has been under attack over the erstwhile NDA governments decision to release terrorists during the Kandahar hijack,has authored a book which would deal with the controversial happenings of December 1999.
Though the forthcoming book primarily analysis Partition and has a political biography of Mohammad Ali Jinnah,Singh would,for the first time,come out with his version of the hijack episode.
Titled Jinnah – India: Partition,Independence,the 674 page books cover says it would also deal with the authors experiences as a minister responsible for the conduct of Indias foreign policy. Controversy had erupted after Singhs senior party colleague L K Advani,the then Deputy Prime Minister and Home Minister in the NDA government,said he was not aware of the decision to send Singh to Kandahar along with the terrorists to get 160 passengers back.
Following this,the BJP came under severe attack from the Congress and other parties over the episode.
The book cover says that among the issues dealt with in the chapters on Singhs experiences as the Foreign Minister would be the Lahore peace process; betrayed in Kargil; Kandahar; the attack on Jammu and Kashmir assembly and the Indian Parliament; and the peace overtures reinitiated in April 2003.
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