A new video of Burhan Wani's successor Zakir Musa appeared on social media sites on Tuesday where the new Hizbul Mujahideen commander is making a video appeal to protestors "inciting them to pelt stones on security forces in the valley."

Wani had said the same thing last year.

In the video Musa says: "Whenever we are fighting with gun or throwing rocks, this should not be for nationalism but for Islam".

In other news, Pakistan is planning to declare the strategic Gilgit-Baltistan region also known as Northern Areas as its fifth province.

Gilgit-Baltistan shares a geographical boundary with Pakistan-occupied Kashmir and India considers it as part of the undivided Jammu and Kashmir, while Pakistan sees it as a separate from PoK.