#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