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Pakistan seeking bodies of nationals killed in Iraq, says FM

IRNA - Islamic Republic News Agency

Islamabad, July 29, IRNA -- Foreign Minister of Pakistan Khurshid 
Mehmood Kasuri Thursday said the government is in touch with its 
embassy in Iraq and with the Iraqi embassy in Pakistan for the 
recovery of the bodies of two executed Pakistanis. 
"We are also making efforts through the Ulema Council of Iraq for 
this purpose so that the deceased are buried according to Islamic 
rites," told the National Assembly in his policy statement on the 
tragic incident of the killing of two Pakistani nationals by their 
captors on Wednesday. 
Kasuri said the Foreign Office is approaching the Al-Tamimi 
company for adequate compensation. 
The two men were working for the Kuwait-based Al-Tamimi company, 
when kidnapped on Friday last following an attack on a convoy of 
trucks. 
"The government and the people of Pakistan have heard the tragic 
news from Iraq with deep sorrow and anguish the killings of the two 
nationals by their captors," the official said. 
Kasuri said the Foreign Office had issued a travel advisory some 
days ago asking the Pakistanis not to go to Iraq until the security 
situation stabilized there. 
The minister said that he and the Foreign Office spokesman made 
it explicit that Pakistan had taken no decision to send its forces 
to Iraq. 
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