On 20 February 1994 three armed militants from Afghanistan took control of a school bus near the city of Peshawar in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, close to the Afghan border. Seven teachers and about seventy children in the bus were taken hostage. The bus was driven to the Embassy of Afghanistan in Islamabad, where fifty-seven[1] or sixty-one[2] of the hostages were released. The hijackers made demands for food relief to be sent to Kabul, for a ransom, and for safe conduct and a helicopter to take them to Afghanistan.[3][4]
On the following day, 21 February 1994, units of the Pakistani Special Services Group attacked the Afghan embassy, killed the three hostage-takers and rescued the remaining six[5] or sixteen[2] hostages, who were unharmed.[6]
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edit- ^ "Islamabad reviews Afghan refugee policy after hijack". New Straits Times. 21 February 1994.
- ^ a b "Afghan Gunmen Hijack a School Bus in Pakistan". New York Times. 21 February 1994. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ Gannon, Kathy (20 February 1994). "Afghan Gunmen Hijack School Bus, Demand Food". Associated Press News. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ "Pakistanis Held Hostage by 3 Afghan Gunmen : Crime: The masked men hijack a school bus and demand $5 million. Some children are released". LA Times. 21 February 1994. Retrieved 22 February 2016.
- ^ [s.n.] (21 February 1994). Pakistani troops free boys being held hostage. St. Petersburg Times. Accessed April 2016.
- ^ Abbas, Murtaza (20 February 2016). "On this day in 1994: When Afghan gunmen held over 70 students hostage in Pakistan". The Express Tribune. Retrieved 22 February 2016.