RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, the interior ministry said, in the kingdom’s latest execution of a foreigner.
Mohammed Ghafour Hashim Khan was convicted of smuggling “a large amount” of heroin into the country, the ministry said in a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency. The sentence was carried out in Eastern Province.
Khan’s case brings to 83 the number of foreigners and Saudis executed in the kingdom this year, including 11 Pakistanis since October, according to a tally.
Published in Dawn, December 18th, 2014
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saqib
Dec 18, 2014 07:28am
How many of Saudi,s get capital sentence for using heroin,or they are too good for that
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Hasnain
Dec 18, 2014 08:27am
Good .Saudies are doing favour to kill the drug smugglers.But the government of Pakistandoes never felt shame and the corrupt custom authorities let it happen under their nose.
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Rajab Ali
Dec 18, 2014 08:35am
That is the security condition of the sensitive place like Airports, what to speak of Schools!
Passion of making money has literally made the civil administration the collaborators of the criminals. How the Armed forces would defend the Country.
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BHarath
Dec 18, 2014 09:03am
There is no difference between Saudi Arabia and ISIS..Beheading is heinous and most barbaric.
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Saad Z
Dec 18, 2014 09:08am
This has to stop.
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ziavrep labqi
Dec 18, 2014 09:52am
How the persons nabbed in Saudi Arabia for heroin smuggling manage to get past the customs in Pakistan before their departure? There must be collaborators who need to be apprehended. This is soiling the image of the country.
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Observer
Dec 18, 2014 10:22am
Saudis are just dealing with supply side; when they will address the demand side?
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saqib
Dec 18, 2014 10:31am
So much for the Saudi justice,
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Sunil
Dec 18, 2014 10:33am
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under the Islamic law in Saudi Arabia, and if convicted, there is no escape by any means.
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Debjit Roy
Dec 18, 2014 10:41am
primitive
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Muhammad iqbal
Dec 18, 2014 10:43am
Saudi government should know that the bosses of these carriers are well placed in pakistan and possibly some of them are living in the kingdom by other names having Aqama and doing business(mostly pansar shops in makka and madina) saudi government need to change the investigation procedure. If any pakistani is found with narcotics at any saudi airport, they should immediately ask the pakistani government to provide the details of immigration and ANF staff who cleared him.(ofcourse they are all paid to clear the passenger)saudi government can ban those staff from coming to KSA in the rest of their life. This is one suggestion
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A Kashifi
Dec 18, 2014 10:51am
It is for the world to note that Saudi and ISIS are the same. Look at their methods. Exact same.
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sam
Dec 18, 2014 11:57am
@BHarath its a capital punishment buddy. Like hanging someone . Its not an extra judicial killing like happened in gujrat
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Kamal Pasha
Dec 18, 2014 12:00pm
Most of the convicts appears from KP/Afghans(with Pak passports) by the names. How do they get passports and visas for Saudi Arabia? Atleast somebody is doing favour to us by getting rid of them.
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Talking Point
Dec 18, 2014 12:21pm
@Observer : If supply is throttled , price rises and demand comes down. Are we talking about vegetables or drugs?
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justwsf
Dec 18, 2014 12:34pm
Without fair trial...Its henious SA doing inhuman... how proceeding was done how it concluded ... its injustice
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An Indian
Dec 18, 2014 01:22pm
These innocent job seekers are made victims by drug mafia in Pakistan and Saudi.
The surprising thing is how the customs in Pakistani airports cannot catch them?
Atleast their lives will be saved and Pakistan will save itself from international humiliation.
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waleedfakhar
Dec 18, 2014 01:38pm
also mention region of pakistan from where he hails from...
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Shezi
Dec 18, 2014 02:11pm
All the Pakistanis know very well this will happen if they carry drugs to KSA. Then why are they doing it? The persons who send them for jobs should be questioned.
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ziavrep labqi
Dec 18, 2014 02:15pm
@Bharath
When someone knows that what he/she is doing is punishable with death and still chooses to go ahead with it, then that person is to be blamed and not the Saudi government. Beheading is one of the methods of carrying out a capital punishment. Other methods are hanging, shooting, administering lethal injection or strapping to an electric chair. The condemned prisoner cannot be choosy about the method.
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saqib
Dec 18, 2014 06:40pm
@Shezi The question mar.k here is about the justice system of KSA.What is the Islamic source of this sentence.How many Saudi,s are decapitated for use and possession of heroin
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