IC-814 hijacker Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim shot dead in Karachi: Report

Mistry Zahoor Ibrahim aka Jamali, one of the five hijackers of the Indian Airlines IC-814 flight, has been shot dead on March 1 in Pakistan, according to a Hindustan Times report. As per the report, an unidentified gunmen shot him in Karachi. With this killing, only two Jaish-e-Mohammed hijackers are now alive in Pakistan including Ibrahim Azhar, elder brother of Masood Azhar and Rauf Asghar.As per some media reports, the attackers shot two bullets at Ibrahim's head inside his furniture godown.

Reports also state that the funeral of Ibrahim was attended by Rauf Asgar, the brother of Jaish-e-Mohammed (JeM) chief Masood Azhar.On December 24, 1999, Indian Airlines flight IC814 from Kathmandu, Nepal to New Delhi was hijacked by Pakistan-based terror group Harkat-ul-Mujahideen. The flight was hijacked by the terrorists when it was near Lucknow. It was taken to Amritsar for fuelling. It was then taken to Kandahar where passengers and crew remained captive for more than eight days.One passenger, Rupin Katyal, was killed by the terrorists in the Delhi-bound flight from Kathmandu. The hijack situation ended when the Atal Bihari Vajpayee government was forced to release three terrorists - Masood Azhar Alvi, Syed Omar Sheikh and Mushtaq Ahmad Zargar - to save the lives of 176 passengers and 15 crew members on board.