External Affairs Minister (EAM) Dr S Jaishankar on Friday (Sep 13), shared his personal experience in connection with a hijacking incident of 1984, saying that he was a young officer in the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) and while serving, he found out that his father was on the hijacked plane. 

Jaishankar was speaking at a community event on Friday in Geneva, Switzerland. 

He revealed this while answering questions about the recently released Ne

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India's External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar made such a disclosure in a recent event held in Switzerland, which has surprised everyone. He said that his father was also on board the IC-421 aircraft which was hijacked in 1984. According to him, a few hours after discovering about the plane hijack incident, he called his mother and told him that he could not come home because the IC-421 aircraft had been hijacked. Then he found out that his fa…

भारत के विदेश मंत्री एस. जयशंकर ने हाल ही में स्विट्जरलैंड में आयोजित एक कार्यक्रम में एक ऐसा खुलासा किया है, जिसने हर किसी को हैरान कर दिया है. उन्होंने बताया कि साल 1984 में जो IC-421 विमान हाईजैक हुआ था, उसमें उनके पिता भी सवार थे. उनके मुताबिक, विमान हाईजैक की घटना का पता चलने के कुछ घंटों बाद जब उन्होंने अपनी मां को फोन किया और बताया कि वो घर नहीं आ सकते, क्योंकि IC-421 विमान हाईजैक हो गया है. तब उन्हें पता चला कि उस विमान में तो उनके पिता …

कौन थे विदेश मंत्री एस जयशंकर के पिता, जो 1984 में हाईजैक हुए IC-421 विमान में थे सवार?

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External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar shared an experience from his early days as an officer in the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1984, when he learnt that his father was also on board a plane that had been hijacked just a few minutes ago. Jaishankar said he realised this only when he called his mother. Jaishankar’s father K. Subrahmanyam later played an important role in shaping India’s nuclear policy. He emphasized on the policy of ‘No Firs…

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