Saudi Arabia has beheaded another Pakistani for heroin smuggling, the interior ministry said, in the kingdom’s latest execution of a foreigner.
Mohammed Ghafour Hashim Khan was convicted of smuggling “a large amount” of heroin into the country, the ministry said in a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency.
The sentence was carried out in Eastern Province.
Khan’s case brings to 11 the number of Pakistanis who have been executed since October in a year that has seen 83 foreigners and Saudis executed in the kingdom for the offence.
In addition to amphetamines and other drugs, authorities claimed to have seized almost 18 kilogrammes (40 pounds) of raw heroin during the calendar year that ended in October, the interior ministry has said.
