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(31 Dec 1999) Pashtu/Natsound Passengers and crew who were held hostage for eight days on an Indian Airlines plane are back home now. Planes carrying the freed captives from Afghanistan arrived in New Delhi late on Friday - to an emotional welcome from Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and relatives. The eight-day ordeal had ended earlier in the day after India had flown three Islamic militants imprisoned on terror charges to the Kandahar airport. This was the moment when the hijackers left the Indian Airlines plane in Afghanistan - ending an eight-day crisis which took the hostages to India, Pakistan, the United Arab Emirates and Afghanistan. The hijackers had demanded the release of 36 militants jailed in India for their fight against Indian rule of the disputed territory of Kashmir. However, only three militants were released - an offer the hijackers eventually agreed to. The freed militants included Pakistani religious leader Masood Azhar - the ideologue of the Harkat ul-Ansar, a group that is included on a U-S list of terrorist organisations. The group is believed to have training camps in Afghanistan. The other prisoners were Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, chief commander of the rebel group Ul-Umar Mujahideen, and Ahmad Omar Sayed Sheikh, who was held in a New Delhi prison. Not long after their arrival at Kandahar airport, five hijackers left the Indian Airlines plane. The five were seen carrying pistols and did not give up their weapons as they walked off the plane. The hijackers then drove away in four-wheel drive vehicles to an unknown destination. They took with them the three released rebels and, as a hostage, a soldier of the Taliban movement, the Muslim fundamentalist group that rules most of Afghanistan. Not long after their departure, the first hostages started getting off the plane. They were taken to planes waiting to take them back to New Delhi. Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh - who had travelled with the militants to Kandahar soon made his way on to the tarmac to join the hostages. He said the hijackers had been given 10 hours to leave Afghanistan. Singh also defended the release of the militants, insisting the Indian government had acted to ensure the safety of the passengers. SOUNDBITE: (English) \"Innocent men, women and children have been criminally kept confined during the festive season, impeded from light and joy for more than a week. We stated at the very beginning that our primary concern was the earliest termination of the hijacking and the safe return of all passengers and crew.\" SUPER CAPTION: Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh Late on Friday - when all hostages had left the Indian Airlines plane - APTN was allowed on board to film the interior of the jet that was at the centre of the longest hijack drama in more than a decade. The plane had been on the tarmac at Kandahar since December 25, a day after the drama began on a flight from Kathmandu, Nepal to New Delhi, India. Conditions on the plane steadily worsened as the crisis dragged on. With temperatures dipping below freezing, the engines on the hijacked plane shut down early on Friday, cutting heat and light and making conditions even more uncomfortable. Meanwhile, the Taliban movement found itself in an unusual position on Friday - receiving heaps of praise for helping defuse a difficult hijacking drama. The West has harshly criticised the Taliban, and the U-N has imposed sanctions against the movement for its willingness to harbour individuals and groups accused of terrorism. SOUNDBITE: (Pashtu) SUPER CAPTION: Taliban FM Wakil Ahmed Muttawakil Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...