Convicted of murder: Pakistani executed in Makkah
His beheading brings to 74 the number of people executed so far this year in the kingdom.
RIYADH:
Saudi authorities on Sunday beheaded a Pakistani in Makkah for stabbing to death a compatriot, the interior ministry said.
Altaf Hussein Hati was found guilty of stabbing a man in the throat and leaving him to bleed to death, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
His beheading brings to 74 the number of people executed so far this year in the kingdom, according to Amnesty International.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 10th, 2012.
Saudi authorities on Sunday beheaded a Pakistani in Makkah for stabbing to death a compatriot, the interior ministry said.
Altaf Hussein Hati was found guilty of stabbing a man in the throat and leaving him to bleed to death, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
His beheading brings to 74 the number of people executed so far this year in the kingdom, according to Amnesty International.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 10th, 2012.