Srinagar, July 25: The Muzaffarabad based spokesman of Hizbul Mujahideen, Eshan Illahi on Sunday said that Hizb’s supreme commander, Syed Salahuddin, had not called for complete end to strikes, but he had advised Hurriyat leadership to give right direction to peoples’ sentiment and protests, and adopt a strategy which would help the movement to sustain in the long run.
Salahuddin had asked the leadership to adopt such tactics which would help people to continue protests for a long time without losing courage and hope, Illahi said. 
“Salahuddin had advised leaders to keep compulsions, necessities, and hardships of people in mind to make strikes successful so that people support it whole heartedly,” he added.
 He said Syed Salahuddin in an interview to a local news agency KNS had asked for giving direction to the movement so that people would continue to support it with same zeal and enthusiasm.
 Without naming anyone, Illahi said that no one had any right to provoke people on the basis of some misunderstanding against popular militant leadership and militant organization which is the movement and organization of people of Jammu and Kashmir. “Sacrifices rendered by Syed Salahuddin and thousands of youth cannot be ignored,” he said. “Hizb men have given their blood for the movement, and every lane, river, residential area, markets, jungles are witness to their sacrifices. No one has the right to defame them,” he said. 
 He said “Quit Kashmir Movement” is not the movement of few days which would culminate after a few strikes. “It is long drawn struggle.”
 He said it was the responsibility of the militant leadership to ensure that present movement is taken to its logical end. “That’s why Syed Salahuddin had asked Hurriyat leaders to devise a strategy so that people don’t get tired and support it without losing hope,” Illahi added.

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