Pakistan condemns killing of Japanese hostage

Pakistan has strongly condemned the killing of Japanese national hostage Shosei Koda in Iraq. In a statement issued here on Sunday Foreign Office Spokesman Masood Khan said the government and people of Pakistan strongly condemn this horrendous and brutal killing of a Japanese national.
The spokesman said, "We sympathise with the family of the victim, who has been subjected to unspeakable sufferings."
He said in this hour of grief, "We convey our deepest condolences to the government and people of Japan and the near and dear ones of the deceased".
The Foreign Office spokesman said, "We share their grief and fully understand it because sometimes ago, two Pakistani hostages lost their lives to such senseless brutality".
He said, "No ideology and no cause can be invoked to justify such a gruesome murder, which is plain terrorism."
The Japanese Foreign Minister Nobutaka Machimura has confirmed that a head and body found in Baghdad are the remains of Japanese hostage Shosei Koda.