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NIA's chargesheet reveals Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGuH) has evolved from a forest-based group to an urban threat, orchestrated by Pakistan-based handlers. This shift, moving from visual propaganda to a tech-driven network, aims to link Kashmiri militancy with global jihadist goals, bypassing traditional structures through encrypted platforms.

Intense clashes erupted after zakir musa and his aide were reportedly trapped in a residential house at Noorpora , his native village in Tral on Friday evening. However, the stone pelting stopped after few hours and there was no firing from the house where zakir musa and his aide was reportedly holed-up.

Many social media users are passing off old photos as ones clicked during the funeral of Jammu and Kashmir's most-wanted militant zakir musa.

A pro-Islamic State (IS), Kashmir-centric media unit Al-Qaraar has released a video of an alleged Kashmiri ‘fighter’ asking fellow fighters and Muslims in the Valley to pledge allegiance to the terror group Islamic State and join its so-called ‘caliphate’.

“This traitor is creating different outfits in league with the government. Initially, he was part of Hizb and thereafter, he joined hands with the government of India. He even termed Hurriyat wrong. Therefore, wherever you find him, kill him,” posters visible in Shopian read.

Six terrorists were killed in an encounter in Jammu and Kashmir's Tral area of Pulwama district. A foreign militant belonging to the zakir musa outfit, Ansar Ghazwatul Hind, was among the killed terrorists in the gunfight. Arms and ammunition were recovered from the encounter site and the operation is over.

In an extraordinary development in South Kashmir's Pulwama district, the Sufi sect of Muslims displayed portraits of militants including that of al-Qaida's Kashmir chief zakir musa during the Eid-ul Milad procession on Friday, police sources said.

Cries of "Neither Hurriyat-type Shariat, nor Hurriyat-type freedom, Kashmir will become an Islamist nation,” rent the air at the funeral of a Tehreek-ul Mujahideen militant, Mugees Ahmad Mir. IG Kashmir, Munir Khan, said the quantum of influence of ISIS on Kashmir militancy is being investigated.

Officials said two terrorists were killed in an encounter in a Tral village, South Kashmir, but there was no confirmation about their identities as the bodies were yet to be retrieved. It is believed that zakir musa, the so-called chief of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, a group affiliated with al-Qaida, was one of the dead. Musa's family confirmed that he was present at the site.

The gunmen fired upon a youth in the Hazratbal area of the city here, resulting in his on the spot death, a police official said. He said the youth has been identified as Asif Nazir Dar, a resident of the Panzgam area of Awantipora in south Kashmir's Pulwama district. He was an active terrorist associated with the Hizbul Mujahideen but later defected to Musa-led Ansar Gazwat-ul-Hind.

A day after the killing of Sabzar Bhat, Hizbul Mujahideen identified Riyaz Naikoo as its new commander in Kashmir. Tech-savvy Naikoo is considered a moderate among the hardline Hizbul terrorists, and speaks contrary to the deposed Hizb commander zakir musa. He favours a secular society in the valley.

Thousands of people gathered in Parampora area on Srinagar-Gulmarg road to join the funeral of a terrorist killed by security forces and raised anti-Hurriyat, and pro-Islamic State and pro-zakir musa slogans.

Kashmiri youth claiming to be followers of “deposed” Hizbul Mujahideen chief zakir musa told people on Wednesday that they stood for the Islamic State terror outfit and forbade them from draping the bodies of three terrorists killed in encounters in Pakistani flags.

National Investigation Agency (NIA) court in Mohali on Thursday framed charges against three members of Kashmir-based terrorist outfit Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH), who have been accused of grenade blasts at Maqsudan police station in Jalandhar on September 14 last year.

Kashmir range IGP Muneer Khan confirmed the killing of Yasin Itoo alias Ghaznavi, who had succeeded zakir musa after the latter was expelled by Syed Salahuddin, the supreme commander of the terror outfit, for claiming allegiance to al-Qaida.

A top Hizbul Mujahideen militant Zakir Bhat alias Musa has indicated a change in the militant group's goal -- focus on Islamic Sharia and not on Kashmiri nationalism.

Former Hizbul Mujahideen commander zakir musa, in his first message as an al-Qaeda operative, released an audio recording on Monday slamming Indian Muslims for not joining Islamic jihad for 'Ghazwa-e-Hind' (the final and last battle for the conquest of India).

Former Hizbul terrorist zakir musa has been announced as the head of a newly created al-Qaida cell, Ansar Ghazwat-Ul-Hind, in Jammu and Kashmir. The formation of the new terror outfit was revealed in a statement released by "Global Islamic Media Front", an al-Qaida-affiliated information network.

Former Lashkar-e-Taiba terrorist who joined Hizbul Mujahideen in 2015, Saddam Padder, tossed in his balaclava for the post of new commander of the outfit, signifying a tussle for authority with Riyaz Naikoo, who, a day earlier, had emerged as the likely successor to zakir musa.

While calling zakir musa’s rant highly objectionable and misleading, eminent Islamic scholars, senior clerics and anti-jihadist activists have said that India’s secular Constitution provides enough scope for the minorities to solve their problems and they don’t need any “lecture” from a terrorist.

The Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, the Kashmir-based al-Qaida affiliate led by former Hizbul Mujahideen leader zakir musa, warned on Friday that it would not rest until it "liberates occupied Hindustan".