SAUDI ARABIA: PAKISTANI BEHEADED FOR DRUG TRAFFICKING

Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling drugs to the ultra-conservative Muslim kingdom, the interior ministry said.
The man, who has not yet been named, was found guilty of attempting to smuggle an undisclosed amount of heroin that he had swallowed, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.
His beheading in the eastern city of Dammam brings to 72 the number of executions carried out in Saudi Arabia this year, according to an AFP count.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery, homosexuality, witchcraft and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the oil-rich Gulf state’s strict version of sharia, or Islamic law.