3 After dropping out of college, Zakir Musa joined Hizbul Mujahideen. But, like his rise, his downfall in the Hizbul Mujahideen seems to have been equally rapid. After dropping out of an engineering college, Zakir Musa joined Hizbul Mujahideen. Zakir Musa threatened the separatist leaders for what he called 'interference in the Islamic struggle'. Zakir Musa asserted that Hizbul Mujahideen was clear in its motives of "fighting to impose a Shariat in Kashmir and not resolving the Kashmir issue by calling it a political struggle."
Source: India Today May 13, 2017 15:42 UTC