When Jaishankar came to know that his father was also on the hijacked plane, he narrated the story in Geneva
External Affairs Minister S Jaishankar shared an experience from his early days as an officer in the Indian Foreign Service (IFS) in 1984, when he learnt that his father was also on board a plane that had been hijacked just a few minutes ago. Jaishankar said he realised this only when he called his mother.