This news came a day after Zakir Musa's successor and chief of Kashmir's al-Qaeda unit, Hamid Lelhari, was gunned down in Jammu and Kashmir's Awantipora district.
Two civilians have died and over 80 injured in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK)'s Muzaffarabad as the peaceful protests against Pakistan's illegal occupation of Kashmir turned violent.
Thousands of Pakistanis had announced that they will infiltrate India by crossing the LoC en masse to ‘liberate Kashmir’. However, Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan had warned them not to do so lest it upset the narrative Pakistan is building against India.
Hundreds of Pakistanis have gathered near the LoC, in Pakistan-occupied-Kashmir (PoK) ready to infiltrate India for a ‘Freedom March’, two months after the Indian government abrogated Article 370.