Srinagar: A day after a Hizbul Mujahideen video threatened the Jammu and Kashmir Police officers, the security forces busted a makeshift studio of the outfit’s commander Zakir Bhat, alias Moosa, in south Kashmir’s subdistrict of Awantipora on Friday.Many videos of Zakir, who is believed to have replaced Burhan Wani, have appeared in the past three months and thelatest video surfaced yesterday on the social media, asking the police to stay away from the families of militants.The Superintendent of Police (SP), Awantipora, Mohammad Zaid, said the makeshift studio of Zakir was in a house at Batipora in Tral.“After an input, a joint search was held at the house of Mudasir Ahmed Gunoo in Tral. Security personnel found material and articles used by Zakir to record the videos. A combat jacket and other material used by him in different videos and photographs were also recovered,” he said, adding that the owner of the house had been absconding.The Superintendent of Police said they were investigating whether yesterday’s video had been shot at the studio or not.The threat to the police was issued by Zakir yesterday through an 85-second video message that was circulated on social networking sites. “You have made a huge mistake by messing with our families. A huge mistake by involving them,” Zakir had said in the video message.Zakir Bhat of Noorpura in Tral was a civil engineering student at a Chandigarh college before he left home and joined the Hizbul Mujahideen in 2013.
