Why Vajpayee govt chose to swap 3 terrorists with 160 passengers of IC 814 two decades ago

Akshobh Giridharadas
7 min readDec 29, 2019

It’s New Year’s Eve 1999, a much-anticipated evening before the New Millennium.

India’s then Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh didn’t think he would be spending that evening on a flight to Kandahar, Afghanistan of all places.

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Akshobh Giridharadas

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