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(25 Dec 1999) English/Nat The release of a Pakistani religious leader is among the demands made on Saturday by hijackers of an Indian airliner. Maulana Masood Azhar, brother of one of the hijackers and an ideologue of an anti-India militant group, is being held in an Indian jail. Azhar had traveled to India in 1992 to help anti-Indian militants in Kashmir and was arrested in 1994 by Indian security in Anantnag, a small war-torn town in Jammu-Kashmir. Azhar's group, the Harkat ul-Mujahedeen, formerly called Harakat ul-Ansar, has tried several times to use kidnappings as a way of freeing him, but failed. The most famous of the attempts was in 1995 of six Western tourists. One was killed, one escaped and four are still missing and now feared dead. In an attempt to find their husbands, the wives of two of the four western hostages went to Kashmir in August of 1996. Julie Mangan and Jane Shelly, wives of British hostage Keith Mangan and American hostage Donald Hutchings, arrived in the Indian village of Magam Rakh in Kashmir in military jeeps. They were seeking help from the villagers in their search to find their abducted husbands. The missing tourists included Donald Hutchings of Spokane, Washington, Keith Mangan from Briton, another Briton and one German. They were trekking in Kashmir's Pahalgam district when they and two more companions were kidnapped by militants fighting to separate Muslim-dominated Kashmir from Hindu-majority India. The wives of Hutchings and Mangan gave out pamphlets to the villagers written in Urdu appealing for information. Local villagers made sure that even those who could not read got to learn about the message on the pamphlet. Their abductors demanded the release of 21 of their jailed comrades in return for the six hostages. India refused. Three years later and still with not much to go on, Hutching's wife, Jane Shelly, continued her quest to find her husband by returning to Kashmir in July of 1999. It was the 4th anniversary of her husband's kidnapping and her fifth visit to Srinagar, Indian-administered Kashmir, since he went missing. She again distributed and posted leaflets to villagers hoping someone might recognise the photos of the hostages. Captured militant soldiers have claimed the trekkers were killed and buried in the mountains. The government said there was no evidence to substantiate those reports. Shelly was still maintaining hope that they could be found. Azhar's allies also organized kidnappings in 1994 in Kashmir and later of five Westerners in the state of Uttar Pradesh. Azhar, who belongs to a rich land-owning family in Pakistan according to Indian security officials, is being held in a high-security jail in Kot Bhalwal, near Jammu, the state's winter capital. The hijackers who on Friday forced the Indian airliner through a harrowing flight path from India to Pakistan to the U-A-E to Afghanistan also are demanding freedom for other Kashmiri fighters being held in Indian prisons. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...