[31] In May 2017, Musa criticized the Hurriyat leaders for calling the Kashmir conflict a political objective rather than a religious one to establish an Islamic state ruled with Sharia.

[8] Zakir Musa was one of the most wanted militants in Jammu and Kashmir after Burhan Wani with a bounty of 1 million Indian rupees on his head announced by the Government of India.

After the meeting of Riyaz Naikoo with Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, Zakir Musa released an audio tape after a few days of meetings, where he called all Kashmiri Mujahideen groups to unite for Jihad against enemies of Islam, with the goal to achieve freedom from India and enforce a Sharia law-based Islamic revolution in the region.

[27][28] Days After formation Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind claimed it is against Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, and Hizbul Mujahideen, who have openly rejected both Al-Qaeda and Islamic State propaganda.

He stated that the objective of Al-Qaeda's Kashmir cell was to clear it from the Pakistan government, army and their sponsored agents he also threatened to "liberate India" from the Hindus and Musa, like his predecessor Burhan Wani, asked the Kashmiri Pandits to return to their homeland he stated during a video released after the killing of Burhan Wani in 2016, "We request Kashmiri Pandits to return to their homes.

"[36][37][38] afterwards in response the United Jihad Council chairman and Hizbul Mujahideen leader, Syed Salahuddin, stated that the Kashmiri jihad movement is indigenous, and does not have a worldwide caliphate goal, and claimed that both al-Qaeda-affiliated groups and the ISIS are attempts by the Indian government to ruin the image of the Kashmiri resistance movement but after few months Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind officially announced alliance with Pakistan affiliated groups especially with Hizbul Mujahideen in Kashmir against India and Al-Qaeda-affiliated Global Islamic Media Front released a video announcing Al Hurr as the channel of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind.

[44][45] On 7 December 2017, the group released a statement that condemned former President Donald Trump's declaration of moving the United States embassy in Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem.

[51] On 18 November 2018, militia armed men threw grenades and opened fire at a Central Reserve Police Force (CRPF) camp in Kakapora, Jammu and Kashmir.

He further criticized the government of Pakistan and the Pakistan Army for its role in the decline of attacks against Indian forces in Jammu and Kashmir under the pressure of America and condemns the killing of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind founder Zakir Musa, he also calls Musa and his predecessor Burhan Wani as notable Islamic martyrs of Kashmir describing them as role models of Muslim youth for global Jihad against the enemies of Islam.

On 21 November 2019, Al-Qaeda leader Zawahiri released an audio tape condemning the Indian court ruling on the Babri Masjid.

[58][59] On 21 December 2018, deputy leader Soliha Mohammad Akhoon, also known as Rehaan Khan, was killed in an encounter with 42 Rashtriya Rifles and the CRPF, along with five other militants.

[66][67] On 22 April 2020, four militants of the group were killed in Shopian district's Melhora village during an encounter with Indian Army's 55 Rashtriya Rifles and the CRPF.

The team has arrested two militant linked with al-Qaeda's Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind.”[71] On 14 June 2022, Jammu and Kashmir Police announced the killing of Kashmiri militant Abdullah Abbas Ghazi Bhat, also known as Abdullah Ghazi in an encounter, he was a senior member of Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, an al-Qaeda linked group.

On 14 June, a few days after his death, four Indian army soldiers were killed in lone wolf attacks at various locations and the main leading member of search operation a Jammu and Kashmir Police senior officer, also murdered outside of his house on same day and police claimed that the officer was stabbed multiple times by a sharp lethal weapon in what is believed to have been a reprisal for Ghazi's death, however no group claim the responsibility and authorities suspected the over-ground worker loyalists of Al-Qaeda, Lashkar-e-Taiba and Jaish-e-Mohammed behind it.