Hashim Qureshi

The Jammu and Kashmir administration today issued orders to withdraw security of five separatists, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, officials said.

Forty-three years after it happened, few remember that one of the earliest plane hijacks in the world was carried out with a toy pistol by a 16-year-old Kashmiri boy. But in the mind of Hashim Qureshi, that boy who is now 59 years old, the incident still ticks away like the script of a high voltage Hollywood thriller. He hijacked an Indian Airlines...

The Jammu and Kashmir administration today issued orders to withdraw security of five separatists, including Mirwaiz Umar Farooq, officials said.

Forty-three years after it happened, few remember that one of the earliest plane hijacks in the world was carried out with a toy pistol by a 16-year-old Kashmiri boy. But in the mind of Hashim Qureshi, that boy who is now 59 years old, the incident still ticks away like the script of a high voltage Hollywood thriller. He hijacked an Indian Airlines...