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SAUDI BEHEADS 8TH PAKISTANI SINCE MID-OCTOBER
November 25, 2014: A Pakistani became the eighth person from the country to be beheaded in Saudi Arabia for drug trafficking since mid-October.
Seyfour al Rahman Golajan is the latest of 73 people, foreigners and Saudis, to be executed in the kingdom this year, according to an AFP tally.
He “was caught trying to smuggle a large quantity of heroin hidden in his gut into the kingdom”, an interior ministry statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency said.
Golajan was executed in the Eastern Province city of Dammam.
The ministry says the government is battling narcotics “because of their great harm to individuals and society”.
According to the Ansar Burney Trust, as many as 50 Pakistanis face capital punishment in the Kingdom for transporting drugs. (Sources: AFP, 25/11/2014)
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