Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind (AGH) has named Hameed Lelhari as its new chief and Zakir Musa’s successor in Kashmir, a media report said on Friday.
Lelhari (30) is a resident of Pulwama district in southKashmir. He is believed to have served Musa as his deputy after he, along witha group of around a dozen of militants, split from Hizbul Mujahideen and sworeallegiance to al-Qaida in July 2017.
“In a new video released on Wednesday by al-Hurr (officialmedia wing of AGH), which was widely circulated on Whatsapp groups, Abu UbaidahHafizahullah, spokesperson of AGH said that Lelhari alias Haroon Abbas hasreplaced Musa while Ghazi Ibrahim Khalid appointed as his deputy,” reported TheTimes of India.
The report said that J&K police officials confirmed theveracity of the claim in the video. “Lelhari has taken over AGH but he ishardly a top militant,” it quoted an officer as having said.
The report said that Lelhari is son of Mohammad Ismail Loneand was born in 1990. He is a native of Lelhar Kakpora, Pulwama.