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Tuesday, Jul 27, 2004

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Not yet decided on troops: Pakistan

By B. Muralidhar Reddy

ISLAMABAD, JULY 26. Pakistan tonight said that it had not decided on the request for contribution of troops to Iraq and it was for Iraqis alone to decide about their ``future''. The Pakistan Foreign Office spokesman, Masood Khan, was indirectly responding to a demand made by the Iraqi captors, who have abducted two citizens of Pakistan-occupied Kashmir (PoK), that Pakistan reconsider its decision to deploy its troops in Iraq to guard the United Nations mission as and when it is established.Mr. Khan said that Islamabad believed in the ``sovereignty and territorial integrity'' of Iraq.

Invoking Islam, he said the two kidnapped citizens were innocent migrant workers who had nothing to do with international politics and ``human sacrifice'' was not permitted in Islam.

The captors have said that killings would be carried out based on ``conclusive evidence''

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