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The Indian government says the men who hijacked an Indian Airlines plane to Afghanistan are demanding a huge ransom to set free the 160 people on hoard. The Indian Foreign Minister Jaswant Singh said the hijackers wanted 2 million dollars as well as the release of 35 Muslim militants imprisoned in India. He said the hijackers had refused to allow children and their mothers on the plane to leave. The terms were spelled out to Indian negotiators at Kandahar Airport where the airliner has been standing for 4 days. From Kandahar Kate Clarke reports.
   "Indian diplomats here are saying very little. They don’ t want to comment on reports from Delhi that the hijackers are demanding ransoms of millions of dollars and the release of dozens of Kashmniri militants held in Indian jails. On the Talihan side, Foreign Minister has said they don’ t want to put the hijackers on trial. ’ They are not part of Afghanistan, he says, ’ We don’t want to touch them.’"