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.
Abdullah questioned the saffron's party's footing in an area such as Tral which according to him is "Land of Musa and Burhan Wani", the terrorists who were both neutralised by the Indian Armed Forces.
NIA in a joint operation with the UP anti-terrorism squad conducted searches in 16 locations in Delhi and UP in connection with a new ISIS module in India named 'Harkat ul Harb-e-Islam’
Zakir Musa, a former Hizbul Mujahideen commander also a close aide of dead terrorist Burhan Wani. Zakir Musa had left the Hizbul in May 2017 and had claimed to lead Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, a local affiliate of al-Qaeda
Zakir Musa may have been arrived in Punjab not only to save his life from the onslaught of security forces but also to revive Sikh terrorism in Punjab backed by Pakistan's ISI.