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'Golden handshake' for redundent SLCTB employees to cost Rs. 1 billion


Pakistani officials return from a hijacked plane to Hyderabad airport in Pakistan's southern province of Sindh May 25. Three gunmen hijacked a twin-engined Fokker Friendship propeller plane of the state-run Pakistan International Airlines (PIA) after it took off from Gwadur airport on May 24. The hijackers wanted the pilot to fly to India and believed they had landed at Bhoj airport in India's Rajasthan state, rather than in Hyderabad. All 29 passengers were released from the plane after Pakistani offcials, posing as Indians, captured the hijackers after a brief shootout early on Monday ending a nine-hour drama. (Reuters)

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