Heroin smuggling: Saudi Arabia beheads Pakistani
Pakistanis executed in Saudi Arabia are among 85 foreigners and Saudis put to death this year
RIYADH:
Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani man on Thursday for heroin smuggling, the twelfth person from Pakistan to be executed in the kingdom for drug trafficking since mid-October. The Pakistanis executed in Saudi Arabia are among 85 foreigners and Saudis put to death this year in the oil-rich kingdom, according to an AFP tally. Saudi Arabia has one of the world’s highest execution tolls. The sentence against Ismail Khan Sayed was carried out in Eastern Province after his conviction for smuggling “a large amount” of heroin, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency. In addition to amphetamines and other drugs, Saudi authorities seized almost 18 kilogrammes (40 pounds) of raw heroin during the Islamic calendar year that ended in October, according to the Interior Ministry.
Published in The Express Tribune, December 26th, 2014.
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