<span style="color: #222222;">Three witnesses, including former Kashmir Bar Association president Mian Abdul Qayoom, failed to appear in a special TADA court in Jammu yesterday in connection with 1989 abduction of Rubaiya Sayeed. Separatist leader Yasin Malik and his associate Rafiq Pahloo appeared before the court via video-conferencing. <br />''<br />''Pahloo was given a final opportunity by the special TADA court to file objections to an application for the cancellation of his bail in a 1990 case in which four Indian Air Force officers were killed and the abduction case of Rubaiya Sayeed, the daughter of the then Union Home Minister, Mufti Mohammad Sayeed. Four eyewitnesses were summoned to appear before the special court. Among them, Mian Qayoom did not appear and submitted a medical certificate that he is admitted in a hospital. Another eyewitness is dead. In the case of the killing of IAF personnel in a terror attack in Srinagar in 1990, the court had summoned two witnesses for identification, but they could not appear citing medical reasons. The court would again hear the case of the killing of the IAF personnel on January 18 and the Rubaiya Sayeed abduction case the next day. The special TADA court has already framed charges separately against Malik and several others in both cases.</span><br />