PESHAWAR, Aug 4: The Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan, has asked the Pakistan government not to send troops to Iraq.

Speaking at the Guest Hour programme of the Peshawar Press Club here on Wednesday, the AJK prime minister said that the US wanted to get its trapped marines replaced in Iraq with troops from the Muslim countries.

The US administration wanted to pull out forces from the war-torn Iraq to satisfy the American public, he added. He said he had appealed to Pakistanis and Kashmiri people working in Iraq with the multinational companies, to come back to their countries till restoration of peace in Iraq.

He said it was his personal opinion that Pakistan should not dispatch its troops to Iraq and caught in an unending war between allied forces and the Iraqi people.

The prime minister said the killing of two Kashmiris, who had gone to Iraq to earn a livelihood for their families, was an eye-opener for the foreign policy-makers.

He said he had appealed to all Kashmiris soon after the kidnapping of Amjid Hafeez to return to Kashmir forthwith.