The Hurriyat Conference on Friday supported Pakistan President Gen Pervez Musharraf's suggestion for a ceasefire along the Line of Control in Jammu and Kashmir.

"I support Musharraf's suggestion for a ceasefire and appeal to India to reciprocate positively to smoothen the way for a permanent solution to the Kashmir problem," Hurriyat chairman Maulvi Mohammad Abbas Ansari said in a statement in Srinagar. "I also appeal to militants in J&K to drop their guns so that concrete steps are taken for resolution of the Kashmir issue," he said.

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Musharraf had told the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday that he would invite India to observe a complete ceasefire along the LoC in Kashmir.

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