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#UAE sentences Pakistani drug smuggler to death
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An Emirati court has sentenced a Pakistani man to death after convicting him of trafficking four kilograms (8.8 pounds) of heroin in the Gulf country, media reported Monday. The defendant, identified only by his initials W.A., was arrested in a sting operation when a police officer posed as a client willing to buy the drugs for 100,000 dirhams ($27,000) last May, Gulf News daily reported. The 30-year-old Pakistani was “found guilty of possessing and trafficking heroin,” the Dubai-based paper reported. read more

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#Saudi_Arabia beheads Pakistani man over drugs
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Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man on Sunday after he was convicted of smuggling drugs into the medieval-styled Gulf state, the interior ministry said. Mohammed Zayer Khan Qol was arrested as he was “smuggling a large amount of heroin” into the US-backed Wahhabi kingdom, said the statement published by the official SPA news agency. His beheading in the western region of Mecca brings to 73 the number of executions carried out in Saudi Arabia this year, according to an AFP count. read more

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Saudi beheads Pakistani man for smuggling heroin
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Saudi authorities beheaded on Tuesday a Pakistani man convicted of smuggling drugs into the medieval-styled kingdom, the interior ministry said. The man 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. In 2012, the kingdom carried out 76 executions, according to a tally based on official figures. read more

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