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...Ahmad, who was returning from a world sociology conference in Bombay, died from bullet wounds inflicted by the terrorist hijackers, said Harvard spokesman Peter Costa. Soon after Ahmad was shot, Pakistani commandoes stormed Pan Am flight 73 and captured the hijackers, ending 17 hours of terror for the 400 passengers on board...
...Ahmad had gone to Bombay to present a paper on Muslim separatism in India at the conference. "Ironically, Muslim separatists were involved in the hijacking," Business School spokesman William Hokinson said yesterday...
...Ahmad, 44 years old, was a graduate of Stanford University and a doctoral student in sociology at the State University of New York at Binghamton. Ahmad was a permanent resident of the United States and held a Pakistani passport...
...wife, Assistant Professor of Business Administration Fareena Sultan, age 36, and the couple's 5-year-old daughter flew to Karachi Friday night to recover Ahmad's body, Costa said. Sultan was informed of her husband's death by Pan Am airlines officials and friends in Pakistan, he said...
...close friend of Ahmad's said he was "very involved in the community, very social, very popular...