A court in Pakistan sentenced a woman to death for...

A court in Pakistan sentenced a woman to death for drugs offences. The was the first time a woman was sentenced to death.
The court, in the city of Lahore, also fined 44-year-old Osfatu Bose Oweiye from Nigeria, 400,000 rupees ($6,925).
Oweiye was arrested in 1999 after officials from Pakistan's Anti-Narcotics Force (ANF) found 20 kilograms of heroin in a Lahore hotel. ANF officials alleged that Oweiye was the head of a drug-trafficking ring and had been involved in high-profile smuggling cases elsewhere.
They also said she had drugs convictions in other countries. Oweiye's arrest four years ago came after police questioned five Nigerian men in connection with the discovery of the heroin in the Lahore hotel.
Police say the heroin was to be smuggled out of Pakistan to be sold in other countries.
The death sentence cam a day after customs officials in western Pakistan said they had seized more than a tonne of heroin in the country's biggest-ever haul of the drug.
The UN International Narcotics Control Board says that opium cultivation in Afghanistan - used in heroin and other drugs - is now as widespread as in the 1990s.