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Pakistan on Thursday alleged that the "hijack" of an Alliance Air flight from Bombay to Delhi was a "drama" enacted by Indian intelligence agencies to discredit Islamabad.
Reporting on the incident, state-owned Pakistan Television said the "drama" proved right an alert sounded by Pakistani intelligence agencies on October 2 that India was chalking out a plan to enact a hijack in order to project Islamabad in bad light.
The television said intelligence reports circulated on October 2 by private news agency NNI and published in some of the newspapers on Wednesday cautioned that Indian intelligence agencies planned to hijack a plane and bring it to Pakistan to get Islamabad declared a terrorist state.
The Pakistan government had also issued orders not to permit the plane to enter the country's airspace in the event of an aircraft being commandeered there, it said.
PTI
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