1994 Peshawar school bus hijacking

On 20 February 1994, three armed militants from Afghanistan took control of a school bus near the city of Peshawar in the North-West Frontier Province of Pakistan, close to the Afghan border. Seven teachers and about seventy children in the bus were taken hostage. The bus was driven to the Embassy of Afghanistan in Islamabad, where fifty-sevennst or sixty-onenyt of the hostages were released. The hijackers made demands for food relief to be sent to Kabul, for a ransom, and for safe conduct and a helicopter to take them to Afghanistan.gannon la On the following day, 21 February 1994, units of the Pakistani Special Services Group attacked the Afghan embassy, killed the three hostage-takers and rescued the remaining sixstp or sixteennyt hostages, who were unharmed.abbas See also 2010 Kurram agency mass kidnapping 2014 Peshawar school massacre List of kidnappings Lists of solved missing person cases References Abbas Murtaza On this day in 1994: When Afghan gunmen held over 70 students hostage in Pakistan http://tribune.com.pk/story/1049740/on-this-day-in-1994-when-afghan-gunmen-held-over-70-students-hostage-in-pakistan/ The Express Tribune 20 February 2016 22 February 2016 Gannon Kathy Afghan Gunmen Hijack School Bus, Demand Food https://apnews.com/7fc148ff75fc847c57b8ce39ddee6ff4 22 February 2016 Associated Press News 20 February 1994 Pakistanis Held Hostage by 3 Afghan Gunmen : Crime: The masked men hijack a school bus and demand $5 million. Some children are released. https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-02-21-mn-25496-story.html 22 February 2016 LA Times 21 February 1994 Islamabad reviews Afghan refugee policy after hijack New Straits Times 21 February 1994 Afghan Gunmen Hijack a School Bus in Pakistan https://www.nytimes.com/1994/02/21/world/afghan-gunmen-hijack-a-school-bus-in-pakistan.html 22 February 2016 New York Times 21 February 1994 [s.n.] (21 February 1994). Pakistani troops free boys being held hostage. St. Petersburg Times. Accessed April 2016. Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Category:1990s missing person cases Category:1994 crimes in Pakistan Category:1994 in international relations Category:Afghanistan–Pakistan relations Category:Crime in Peshawar Category:February 1994 crimes Category:February 1994 in Pakistan Category:Formerly missing people Category:Bus hijackings in Asia Category:History of education in Pakistan Category:Kidnapped children Category:Kidnapped Pakistani people Category:Kidnappings in Pakistan Category:Missing person cases in Pakistan Category:Political history of Pakistan Category:School massacres in Pakistan Category:Hijackings in the 1990s Category:Afghanistan–Pakistan conflict