Deterring attacks, Security forces kill most wanted terrorist Zakir Musa in J&K’s Tral

Srinagar, May 23: Pledging to wean terrorism, the security forces strive hard in eliminating terrorists eyeing their motherland. In a recent encounter, a top militant Zakir Musa was killed by the security forces on Thursday evening. The joint forces worked on a special intelligence, and had trapped him near his home in the Tral area of south Kashmir.

A fierce gunfight broke out between militants and security forces at Dadsara village in the Tral area of south Kashmir’s Pulwama district late Thursday evening. It has been reported that a joint team of the Army’s 42 RR, Special Operations Group of J&K Police and CRPF cordoned off the village and launched a hunt for Musa.

Reportedly, Zakir Musa was a former commander of Hizbul Mujahideen (HM), the militant group he joined in 2013 while pursuing engineering from a college in Punjab. He had succeeded commander Burhan Wani after he was killed in July 2018. Later, he founded his own group Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, an affiliate of Al-Qaida. Zakir Musa had threatened Hurriyat leaders to hang them in Srinagar’s Lal Chowk area for calling the Kashmir conflict a political one instead of a religious one to establish Islamic rule.

Meanwhile, internet services have been shut in most parts of south Kashmir and will be shut in entire Valley soon. All educational institutions in the Valley will also remain shut on Friday as per govt directions owing to a possible law and order crisis.