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.
Many truckers, which carry essential commodities and other goods for the people of Kashmir from Jammu and other parts of the country are being targeted and not allowed to load apples for different destinations in the country.
London Mayor Sadiq Khan has condemned the anti-India protests planned on the occasion of Diwali. He has forwarded Indian origin MP Navin Shah's letter seeking a ban on the protests to Home Secretary Preeti Patel.