Navneet Kaur, wife of Indian Airlines pilot D. Sharan, weeps during a prayer meeting for the safe return of the hostages at a Sikh temple in New Delhi December 29. The hijackers have been holding 155 hostages on the tarmac of Kandahar airport in southern Afghanistan since Christmas Day. India said on Wednesday its negotiators had just begun a fourth round of talks with hijackers and it was hopeful of "some positive development" in the crisis during the day.

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