UJC rejects Hurriyat call

SRINAGAR, NOV. 13.The PoK-based ``United Jehad Council'', a grouping of 13 prominent militant outfits, today outrightly rejected the Hurriyat Conference's call for a ceasefire by all groups in Jammu and Kashmir.

The ``comprehensive'' ceasefire call made on Monday was an ``untimely, unnecessary and unwise step'', the Council was quoted as saying by a local news agency after its meeting in Muzaffarabad, capital of Pok.

The meeting, presided by its chairman, Syed Salahuddin, who also heads the Hizb-ul-Mujahideen, noted that the Hurriyat's call will do a lot of ``harm to the struggle rather than benefit their movement,''according to the spokesman, Mr. Saleem Hashmi.

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