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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...
...gunmen originally asked to be flown to Cyprus to free Palestinian terrorists jailed there. The flight originated in Bombay and was headed for New York by way of Frankfurt...
Airline officials and sources have estimated about 80 Americans were aboard the flight, which originated in Bombay, India, and was headed for New York by way of Frankfurt, West Germany...
...attack was over in moments. As retired General Arun Vaidya, one of India's most decorated soldiers, drove with his wife and bodyguard to his home in Pune, some 80 miles from Bombay, a motorcycle and a scooter roared up on either side of his car. Each two-wheeled vehicle carried a pair of armed youths. One of them sprayed the car with gunfire, killing the general and wounding his wife. The Khalistan Commando Force, a Sikh terrorist group, promptly took responsibility...