In such a situation, echoing the statement of President Pervez Musharraf, he said that Pakistan would not send its troops for use in Iraq.
The spokesman was replying to questions at his weekly briefing. He said that if the Pakistanis employed by Kuwaiti companies and deputed to Iraq for their projects wanted to return home, the Embassy in Baghdad would be willing to help them.
Masood Khan rejected the news reports that Islamabad and Washington had agreed for joint operations against the al Qaeda or Taleban within Pakistan's territory. He said that he had not seen the report, but it was incorrect. However, he promised to look at the report and offer his comments later.
Masood said that the bodies of the two Pakistanis were not given to Pakistan's diplomats but they were looking for them. A number of Baghdad Muslims have offered helping hands but have not succeeded so far.
He said that some Iraqi Muslims had been holding vigil and prayers at the shrines of Sheikh Abdul Kadir Gilani, Imam Abu Haneefa and Umm-al-Qurra for the safety of Pakistanis there. He said that several hundred Pakistanis employed with the Kuwaiti firm Al Tamim and another company, called HUI, also had a good number of them. The latter was re-building the British Chancery in Baghdad. Altogether, the number was 400 Pakistanis, he added.
The spokesman said Islamabad had issued travel advisory about situation in Iraq and had cautioned Pakistan national about travel within Iraq.
He said that the two Pakistani who went missing in Iraq last week were executed by their kidnappers before a tape aired on Al-Jazeera Television had threatened to "behead" them as Pakistan was contributing troops to the multinational forces, which was a lie as Pakistan had not done anything like that. "We have not done it, even now."
The Pakistan Charge d'Affaires in Baghdad, he said, had appeared on televisions appealing to the kidnappers for the return of the remains of the Pakistanis, but no response has been received so far.
He said a suggestion about nations neighbouring Iraq to send troops to Iraq was mooted by Saudi Arabia and was being discussed among them, but Pakistan did not join these parleys. According to newspapers, he said, the suggestion had attracted controversy and it was still being sorted out by those countries.
He said that the composite dialogue between Pakistan and India was proceeding as per the decision of the two governments and Islamabad was anxious to see these produce results and "we would continue to participate in these talks with all sincerity".
He referred to the recent talks on Wullar Barrage and expressed hope that these would continue and the delegations would be able to resolve the differences.
Speaking about a Kenyan national, Ahmed Khalfan, arrested in Pakistan recently, Masood said that neither the embassy of the United States nor the High Commission of Kenya in Pakistan had asked for his custody. Khalfan had prize money over his head, which ran into several million dollars, for the bombing of American Embassy in Nairobi some years ago.