SAUDI ARABIA: PAKISTANI EXECUTED FOR DRUG SMUGGLING

06 June 2013 :

Saudi authorities beheaded by the sword a Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin, the interior ministry said.
Wajid Ali Zarnoosh was found guilty of trafficking heroin into Saudi Arabia, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
His beheading in Qatif, Eastern Province, brings to 50 the number of people executed in the ultra-conservative kingdom this year.

(Sources: AFP, 05/06/2013)

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