SAUDI ARABIA: PAKISTANI BEHEADED, 84 EXECUTIONS IN 2015

Saudi Arabia beheaded a Pakistani sentenced to death for drug smuggling, bringing to 84 the number of executions in the ultra-conservative kingdom this year, the interior ministry said. Iftikhar Ahmed Mohammed Anayat was found guilty of attempting to traffic heroin into the kingdom in balloons concealed in his stomach, the ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
He was executed in the Red Sea city of Jeddah.