On August 5, the government of India repealed Article 370, that granted separate status to Jammu and Kashmir and subsequently legislated the bifurcation of state into two union territories.
In another such incident, an apple trader from Punjab named Charanjeet Singh was shot dead by unidentified gunmen in the Shopian district last Wednesday.
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.