Zakir Musa was unlike any other militant to have emerged from the bloodied battlefield of Kashmir. Musa, 25바카라who left his engineering studies halfway to pick up the gun바카라was a radical Islamist who wanted to establish the 바카라rule of Allah바카라 and had once threatened to publicly hang separatist leaders for refusing to acknowledge Kashmir바카라s battle as a 바카라religious war바카라. And Zakir Musa바카라s killing by security forces last week could potentially mark the end of a phase in Kashmir바카라s militancy that is seen by police and security experts as an aberration. Jammu and Kashmir police chief Dilbagh Singh said as much, 바카라Zakir바카라s killing바카라 has ended the 바카라cult and concept of radical jihad as he was the last militant of ISIS-influenced ideology바카라.
The police and other security agencies are playing down the killing of Musa, who led the Ansar-ul-Ghazwat-ul-Hind, an outfit announced by the al Qaeda-affiliated Global Islamic Media Front. The police issued a brief statement about the encounter in which Musa was killed and referred him with his real name, Zakir Rashid Bhat. 바카라Zakir was important only because of his vintage. He was one of the oldest-surviving militants and could make a lot of impact on social media. His elimination is a dent to his kind of brand,바카라 says inspector general of police, Swayam Prakash Pani.
In the nearly three-decade-long militancy, Musa was an unusual militant, who tried to upend militant discourse in Kashmir and saw Pakistani state as 바카라apostate바카라 and warned it against exploiting Kashmir바카라s militancy. Musa, son of a retired engineer based in Traal, joined the Hizbul Mujahideen in 2013 and became a close aide of its commander Burhan Wani. Musa, in fact, picked up the tricks of exploiting social media from Wani, who had lifted the veil from militancy by posting his pictures on Facebook. Wani, once seen as the poster boy of Kashmiri militancy, was killed in an encounter on July 8, 2016. His killing had sparked a nearly six-month-long unrest which killed nearly 90 people and injured thousands of others. Musa took over as Hizb바카라s commander after Wani바카라s death.
Musa parted ways with the Hizb in 2017 to head the Ansar-ul-Ghazwat-ul-Hind. He also released an audio clip, setting his agenda and accusing Pakistan of betraying the 바카라jihad바카라 in Kashmir. He vowed to continue the fight for 바카라freedom for the sake of Islam바카라 after Hizbul chief Syed Salahuddin publicly dissociated from him for threatening to 바카라slay and hang바카라 separatist leaders at the Lal Chowk for opposing the establishment of Islamic rule in Kashmir. While separatists and militant outfits seek a political solution to Kashmir and talk about the implementation of the UN resolutions on Kashmir, Musa claimed to be pursuing the cause of freeing the 바카라ummah바카라바카라the worldwide community of Muslims바카라and 바카라establishing the law of Allah바카라. Unlike the ISIS, founded with the declared goal of overthrowing 바카라corrupt바카라 regimes in 바카라near enemy바카라 wars in West Asia and replacing them with a 바카라true바카라 Islamic state, Al-Qaeda, advocates international jihad and calls for targeting 바카라far enemy.바카라
In September 2018, four grenades were hurled at a police station in Maksudan, Jalandhar. An NIA probe later revealed that the attack was the handiwork of Ansar Ghazawat-ul-Hind. The grenade attacks, which didn바카라t cause any casualty, were seen by the police here as fitting with the concept of 바카라far enemy바카라 of al Qaida. 바카라Earlier deadly attacks were carried outside J&K by other militant groups and they were mostly Pakistan-sponsored terror acts. The grenade blasts at Jalandhar were different as here it was literally following the al Qaida바카라s concept of the far enemy,바카라 says a police official pleading anonymity.
Pani told Outlook that the biggest security threat continues to be the Jaish-e-Muhammad. On February 14, a Jaish militant Adil Dar targeted a security convoy in Kashmir and killed 40 CRPF personnel that brought India and Pakistan to the brink of war. 바카라This year, we have killed around 90 militants, and most of them were from Jaish. Terrorists are planning to carry out attacks but it is the police and other security agencies which are thwarting their plans,바카라 added Pani.
By Naseer Ganai in Srinagar
