Hashim Qureshi , a Srinagar resident who went to Peshawar on family business in 1969 , met Maqbool Bhat and got inducted into the NLF . He was given an ideological education and lessons in guerrilla tactics in Rawalpindi . In order to draw the world 's attention to the Kashmiri independence movement , the group planned an airline hijacking fashioned after the Dawson 's Field hijackings by the Palestinian militants . Hashim Qureshi , along with his cousin Ashraf Qureshi , was ordered to execute one . A former Pakistani air force pilot Jamshed Manto trained him for the task . However , Qureshi was arrested by the Indian Border Security Force when he tried to reenter Indian-held Kashmir with arms and equipment . He negotiated his way out by claiming to help find other conspirators that were allegedly in the Indian territory , sought an appointment in the Border Security Force to provide such help . Maqbool Bhat sent Qureshi replacement equipment for the hijacking , but it fell into the hands of a double agent , who then turned it over to the Indian authorities . Undeterred , the Qureshis made look-alike explosives out of wood and hijacked an Indian Airlines plane called Ganga on 30 January 1971
Dawson 's Field hijackings
Dawson's Field hijackings
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