Zakir Musa threat to Mehbooba Mufti? Reminds me of the reported threat to Kalyan Singh, the then CM of UP, by Sri Prakash Shukla, a notorious gangster of Eastern UP, circa 1997-98. Soon thereafter SPS was gunned down near NOIDA.
Then it came to light that SPS was offed due to the influence of his rivals in the UP underworld who were fast losing ground to this upstart. He had killed off one Veerendra Pratap Sahi of Gorakhpur and had intimidated Hari Shankar Tiwari into silence. There were rumours that he planned to move his "business" overground by contesting assembly bypolls from Deoria, after HST had "resigned" due to health issues. His politico-criminal rivals came together, spread the rumour that he had been contracted to eliminate Kalyan Singh and they apparently tipped off his movement to the UP police. SPS was shot dead soon thereafter.
I cannot help but notice the pattern repeating itself here. Musa is spoiling the terror party in Kashmir with his open talk of jihad and khilafat. Since the alleged split, tangos are being dispatched in droves. The entrenched players are unsettled and this is probably their way to force the action away from their pet tangos to Musa. This will kill two birds with one stone- get rid of the upstart Musa and relieve the pressure on the jihadi scum who are meeting their maker's alter ego at alarming rate (for the deshdrohis that is), greater than what can be replenished.