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Yassir Arafat Munir Ahmed was executed in Makkah, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
"Investigations led to his confession and after a trial he was sentenced to death," the ministry said.
Ahmed is the 11th person, and the third Pakistani, to be executed in the kingdom.
The interior ministry has said it is battling narcotics because of the "great harm" they do to society.
In September, an independent expert working on behalf of the United Nations expressed concern about the judicial process and called for an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
The kingdom had the third-highest number of recorded executions in 2013, behind Iran and Iraq, Amnesty International said in a report.
The Gulf has become an increasingly important market for illicit drugs in recent years, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says.
On Sunday, the interior ministry said Saudi and United Arab Emirates security agents had disrupted a heroin trafficking network.
Two truck drivers from Pakistan were arrested.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi law.
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Why doesn't Saudi's stop terror finance from its citizen given to Pakistan seminaries which has resulted in if not thousands perhaps in tens of thousand deaths. Why don't they execute their own for knowingly sending money to these outfits?
If the person has actually this crime then this punishment makes sense. What exactly does ET want to convey to people rather than spread propaganda against Pakistan & defend india at all costs. Also, Thailand and MANY other countries impose death penalty on drug traffickers.
Sometimes I wonder if there are more deaths from being hanged than there are due to people consuming these narcotics in Saudi Arabia
Well done! Amnesty International should mind its own business. Saudi has implemented death penalty and Pakistan had not until recently and we all can see the crime rates in both countries.
Indonesia hanged 6 persons of which one was of Brasil and another from Netherlands. Both countries recalled their Ambassadors for consultations as a sign of protest. Can Pak ever dream of recalling its Ambassador from Saudi?
Why do you have to make a news of this incident every time a Pakistani is executed in KSA? 1600 women were murdered for honour killing in 2013, each of those murder however never became a news item in your newspaper.
Good.