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30th December, 1999. Kandahar Airport
— INSPIRED BY INCREDIBLE TRUE EVENTS —
A man was standing in front of Indian Airlines, smoking cigarette, Ajay Sanyal. Some cars were coming towards the plane the cars stopped, a man came out of the car. Devavrat Kapoor, Minister of external affairs (INDIA). Devavrat turned towards the plane, he spoke up, "I've tried everything I could, PM's under immense pressure. ISI has fed the international media the story that our negotiations have completely failed. And the terrorists could, at any moment killing the passengers sitting on that plane", then, Ajay spoke up, "Sir, you know that's not true. These bastards are about to break" Ajay Continued saying, "From asking 36 terrorists to be released, they've now come to just three. Sir give me a little more time, and I promise you that we won't have to release a single terrorist and we'll get every passenger back home safe and sound. It's just a question of time." Devavrat shook his head and said, "For the past three days, the hostages' families have been protesting outside the PM residence. Unfortunately, this is it." Ajay removed his glasses and then looked at the plane before they both started climbing the plane by the stairs.
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When Ajay boarded the plane, he saw the terrorist killing a passenger brutally, very brutally...stabbing the passenger.
"Thrash him!"
"Slit his throat!"
"Hold him down! Slit his throat!"
The terrorist started to slit the passenger's throat with a knife...Ajay looked at the passenger, eyes filled with guilt, anger, fear. Suddenly a terrorist came infront of Ajay and Devavrat, holding a gun guiding to come in. They both saw 3 terrorist, one terrorist who was Zahoor Mistry pointing a gun at an air hostess's head.
Ajay spoke to Zahoor, "Zahoor, we won't negotiate at gunpoint." Zahoor grabbed the woman's arm roughly and sent her to the passenger cabin. One terrorist spoke up, "So, what have you guys decided?"
"We have conferred with our Prime Minister. Tomorrow, all three of them...Mushtaq Ahmed Zargar, Ahmed Omar Saeed Sheikh and your brother Maulana Masood Azhar will be released from prison and handed over to you here in Kandahar. Ajay replied.
"What about the money?" Zahoor asked to Devavrat, he replied, "By tonight, ten million dollars will be transferred to your contact in Dubai."
"Hmm..." Zahoor hummed.
"Now I want to speak to the passengers, alone." Ajay said as he moved forward to the passenger cabin. "Attention, everyone! You may all now remove your blindfolds and open the windows" said Ajay as everyone starts to remove their blindfolds and open the windows.
"Please don't worry. I'm Ajay Sanyal, Chief of India's Intelligence Bureau. I'm pleased to inform you that our negotiations have been successful" The passengers smiled and let out a sigh of relief, Ajay Continued speaking, "By tomorrow evening , all of you will be returning safely to India. Our nation will forever remain grateful for your courage and resilience during this difficult time. Bharat mata ki! (Glory to..!)" None of the passengers continued the line, "Bharat mata ki!" Ajay again said but no one said 'jay'. Because Zahoor was holding a gun and pointing it towards the passengers behind Ajay.
Ajay looked behind and saw Zahoor, pointing the gun towards the passengers, threatening not to continue the line.
"You Hindus are a bunch of cowards, hm?" Said Zahoor. "Mr. Intelligence, we'd better get our money by tonight" said one of the terrorists
"Wasn't your land once called the "Golden Bird"? Tonight, we strip it of it's gold, tomorrow the bird will be gone for good" said Zahoor smirking and laughing as he guided Ajay to leave the plane and ajay walked towards the exit gate of the plane but Zahoor called him out, "Mr. Sanyal." Ajay turned towards zahoor.
"We live just across the border, you know. If you think you've the balls and go ahead. Do your worst." Said Zahoor, Ajay stared at him with those eyes filled with anger, revenge, planning something and then he left with Devavrat.
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The three of them were sitting on a chair, drinks were on the table, Ajay was thinking about a plan after the hijack.
"Sir please don't take this seriously but apart from you, the rest of our negotiation team is completed inexperienced. Even if our commandos have stormed that plane it would been a better strategy for India's reputation." said K.S BHULLAR, Special Secretary, R&AW.
"So you're telling me it's a "better strategy" to risk 160 lives just to protect our country's reputation?" - Ajay spoke to K.S Bhullar
He replied, "I've handled this kind of situation before. And let's be frank, sir, our country's not prepared to handle this kind of adversity"
"So then we'd better start preparing" Ajay replied, and turned towards Devavrat and spoke, "We've exhausted every other option anyway. We begged the UN, we pleaded with the US and they laughed at every diplomatic situation we offered. Sir I'm sorry, I'm being rather blunt but I have no choice. They barged into Kashmir, Kargil. Next, it'll be Hyderabad and all we'll do is stand around singing patriotic songs." Ajay turned towards K.S Bhullar then Devavrat, "Sir, to land a punch, you must first make a fist. We must infiltrate the very core of terrorism in Pakistan. So if they even dream of harming India..." He turned towards Bhullar and continued, "we should be waiting for them there, like a nightmare. And sir, I have a unique plan to make that happen." He handed a file to Devavrat but in between, K.S spoke up "Come on, Sanyal, what are you on about? The whole world saw your plan fail spectacularly in Kandahar. You handle Indian Intelligence, let me handle the international side." Bhullar laughed and Ajay looked at him angrily.
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13th December, 2001, Parliament
"What's the good news, ma'am?"
"My husband just got a job as a security guard at SBI" Kamlesh Kumari a guard of the parliament replied, she was distributing sweets to the security guards
"Congratulations, ma'am."
"You too have some, Remember I told you about it earlier?"
"When did he get the job?"
"Today"
"I'm throwing a party tonight"
Suddenly a car was rushing through the parliament building, "slow down", guard spoke to the driver of the car
"Sir sir sir, stop the car!'
"Sir please stop!"
"Hold that for me, please" Kamlesh asked to one of the guard to hold the sweet box and then shouted at the car who was rushing, "Stop stop!, Stop the car!"
The one who was sitting at the passenger seat was...one of the terrorist on the plane of the Kandahar Hijack. "Yadav, that car's going way over the speed limit! Stop it!, Shut all the doors of Parliament, now! Hurry!" Shouted Kamlesh Kumari
"It's heading towards the VVIP gate, Stop it!"
"The car crashed near gate no. 11!" Said kamlesh kumari holding just a walkie-talkie and running towards the car
"Close every entrance to the Parliament, quick!"
The terrorists starts to fire bullets, 11 bullets pierced through Kamlesh Kumari, making her unconscious.
"At approximately 11:40 am, a suicide assault team of terrorists attacked the parliament. This car had a red beacon and a Home Ministery sticker on it."
"Operation! Operation! Commander!" Said the security guards
"We can hear gunfire near Gate No. 1, They came in guns blazing shooting down the security guards. We can still here the gunshots from inside. And attempt to halt an ongoing attack was made in the area surrounding gate no. 1. The terrorists had bought a massive load of explosives with them."
One bullet goes through the same terrorist who was on the Kandahar Hijack plane. Then the terrorist pushed the button of the bomb and blew himself.
And this was 2001, INDIAN PARLIAMENT ATTACK
"One of them, a human bomb, went in and blew himself up. The blast was so powerful that his remains are still stuck to the roof. His remains are scattered over there.
After a few minutes after the attack, Ajay Sanyal came
"Status?" Ajay said to Sushant Bansal, Deputy director, intelligence bureau
"We've got five terrorists."
"Inside or outside?"
"Outside, thankfully. The parliament session was adjourned 40 minutes ago. The MPs who are still here have been safely locked down on the parliament floor. We've got first intel. One of the IC814 hijackers, Sunny Qazi was leading this attack. He's been neutralized alon with the three others"
"We have to get it right every time, but these bastards have to get it right just once." Said Ajay.
Then Ajay looked at the body of Kamlesh Kumari, many doctors were trying to revive her by giving cpr but..it was too late..
"Doctor, her pulse is very weak, we are losing her, she needs blood!"
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Ajay and Devavrat were at a bar, sitting front to front,
"The Parliament attack has rattled the government to its core. No one ever imagined they'd barge straight into our territory. The Prime Minister's pretty worried. He's losing patience." Said Devavrat
"Sometimes losing patience can be good for a country." Ajay replied, Devavrat nodded and said, "I finally went through the file you gave me"
"Two years, too late.."
"Those are pretty radical ideas. But it's going to take ages to win over the middle East. And it's quite difficult to push pakistan into bankruptcy right now, because the US is backing them. However... there's one proposal the PM liked."
"Dhurandhar." Said Ajay
"Dhurandhar" Devavrat repeated while nodding,
"However, the PM was concerned if such a long term plan will work?" Devavrat asked
"We have no choice. We've got to start somewhere, sometime. Because today they've only crossed out threshold, but tomorrow they'll pin us down by the throat, then we'll have nothing left to lose, neither patience nor courage"
Devavrat nodded and sighed, "I'll make it happen." Then he grabbed a glass of water and drank it before saying "Cheers to Dhurandhar"
Ajay grabbed a glass of alcohol and also said, "Cheers to Dhurandhar"
THE MUSIC STARTS...CHAPTER 2 STARTS...
To be continued