Third Pakistani beheaded this year in Saudi Arabia for heroin smuggling
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RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Monday beheaded a convicted Pakistani heroin smuggler, the third person from his country executed for the crime this year.
Yassir Arafat Munir Ahmed was executed in the Muslim holy city of Makkah, the interior ministry said in a statement carried by the official Saudi Press Agency.
“Investigations led to his confession and after a trial he was sentenced to death,” the ministry said.
Ahmed is the 11th person, and the third Pakistani, to be executed in the kingdom this year under a strict version of Islamic Shariah law.
The interior ministry has said it is battling narcotics because of the “great harm” they do to society.
In September, an independent expert working on behalf of the United Nations expressed concern about the judicial process and called for an immediate moratorium on the use of the death penalty in Saudi Arabia.
The kingdom had the third-highest number of recorded executions in 2013, behind Iran and Iraq, Amnesty International said in a report.
The Gulf has become an increasingly important market for illicit drugs in recent years, the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime says.
On Sunday, the interior ministry said Saudi and United Arab Emirates security agents had disrupted a heroin trafficking network.
Two truck drivers from Pakistan were arrested.
Take a look: 2 Pakistanis held for drug smuggling
The Pakistani city of Karachi is a key transit point for heroin from Afghanistan.
Rape, murder, apostasy, armed robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable by death under Saudi law.
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Jan 19, 2015 04:42pm
This kind of law is needed in our country, to hang main culprits of heroin smuggling through innocent people trapped in their plans one after the other.
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Jan 19, 2015 04:48pm
I wondered why all my Pakistani friends use to say we are all from indian during our night out in disco.
Dear friends now i know constant negative news about Pakistani involments in all kind of things is the reason.
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Jan 19, 2015 04:53pm
And it is just 17 Jan..
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Jan 19, 2015 05:05pm
Pakistan better do something to fix its negative reputation fast or it will be difficult for the future generations of Pakistanis to even roam outside freely in another country without being arrested.
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Jan 19, 2015 05:31pm
from depth of my heart I feel sory.... This can be handeled in a btr way, plyz govt of pak do something....
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Jan 19, 2015 05:32pm
Not all of them are Pakistanis, many of them are Afghanis travelling on fake passports to the Gulf states. Then they are arrested and beheaded in the name of Pakistanis. Pak Govt should clear its country from Afghanis and ban them until they get proper visas.
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Jan 19, 2015 05:56pm
Question is why mostly, Pakistanis are involved in smuggling drugs to holy kingdom. Many are trapped, with threats to their family to smuggle drugs. Pakistan government has to nab, the real kingpin.
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Jan 19, 2015 06:31pm
This clearly shows that strict sharia lawas are not discouraging people to commit crime.
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Jan 19, 2015 06:40pm
@Sunil: Main problem with the Pakistan is employment for its people, and when one has to feed to his family and sees that he has no source of income, he will adapt whatever way he gets irrespective of good or bad and that results in such crime.
Here, GoP's (Govt of Pakistan) first priority must be strong roadmap for its country and people which will automatically reduce the crimes.
You can't just blame Pakistan in this case, Arafat was there in Arab because there was a demand of heroin from Arab people. Why not to have a law in which there has to be execution of those people who were customers of these drugs?
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Jan 19, 2015 06:43pm
And Saudi's has Badshahat which is not in Islam.
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Jan 19, 2015 07:20pm
One Quizzical mind wonders:
Why selective implementation of their version of "shariah," only applicable to foreigners and not for Saudis?
Why don't the Saudis control the demand side of the drug problem?
Why don't they catch and punish thousands of Saudi's who abuse their domestic workers?
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Jan 19, 2015 07:22pm
@how come Pak Airport Authority and ASF, customs intelligent always missed this type drug carrying passengers, and Saudi catched them red handed - ASF /Customs to answer this 1000 points question in Pakistan.
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Jan 19, 2015 07:28pm
Feel sad. Poor souls. These people may or may not be aware that they are carrying drugs. The real culprit is someone else, enjoying a lavish life.
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Jan 19, 2015 07:40pm
It is surprising that no official at Pakistani airports have been reprehended for negligence. After all these folks boarded after going through strict security check.
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Jan 19, 2015 08:12pm
We have enough Pakistani.
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Jan 19, 2015 09:22pm
Proud citizens of proud country. ..
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Jan 19, 2015 10:04pm
@Arshad This saudi law is only for poor prople of a poor country like Pakistan
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Jan 19, 2015 10:04pm
How many are there waiting to be beheaded? Something does not seem right. It looks like every other Pakistani is carrying drugs to KSA, which is not possible. BTW, why is there so much demand for drugs in the sacred country?
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Jan 19, 2015 10:06pm
This saudi law is only for citizens of poor countries. Have you ever heard sauids beheading an America or European for drug trafficking?
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Jan 19, 2015 10:08pm
Thousands of Afghans are holding Pakistani passports and CNIC. Can any one identify them. Yes "Pakistani nationals" are being beheaded.
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Jan 19, 2015 10:15pm
@Nilesh
Agree with you. Also, Pakistani government must use its good offices to repatriate such people from Saudi and have them complete their sentences in Pakistan. At least they will be closer to their families and wouldn't have to face decapitation. It can be a great psychological boost for the wrong doer as well as their families.
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Jan 19, 2015 10:17pm
@wiserneighbour
Poverty and the lure for a quick buck will do to for you.
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Jan 19, 2015 10:25pm
Hanging the bottom of the pyramid won't change anything. Catch the big ones and treat them the same way.
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Jan 19, 2015 11:27pm
Beheading has ceased to be a deterrent to drug smuggling in Saudi Arabia besides spoiling the reputation of the country.
Why Saudi Arabia cannot use more "humane" way of executing the criminals?
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Jan 19, 2015 11:32pm
Who are they selling the heroin and other class A drugs to ?
Surely,not to poor Pakistani labourers?
These rich Arabs really need to sort themselves
out and come out of their superiority complex
(to non-whites) and inferiority complex (to whites).
Can anyone name a single WHITE American
or WHITE European who has been beheaded
for a serious crime in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia ?
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Jan 19, 2015 11:59pm
@citizen
What would be a better way on handing these folks?
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Jan 20, 2015 12:00am
I am pretty sure most of the executed Pakistanis are trapped into this drug smuggling. For example delivering a consigmment by a truck driver unknowingly may contain contabands. Let me give you an example og justice im Saudi Arabia. A Saudi driving opposite one-way road hit an American travelling with his wife. The wife died. Court dismissed the case in Damam citing 50:50 fault liability. The learned court argued that American shares the cause of accident. Had he not been driving the accident would not happened. It is of paramount importance that Governmemt of Pakistan interfere at the very incident of arrest. Such indicted persons be tried in Pakistan or we would say blood of Pakistanis is cheap. One of the major reasons of disloyalty towards a nation is that common person honor, dignity and life is violated.
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Jan 20, 2015 12:08am
@colin
Whites get no punishment except deported to be tried in their country because their Governments protect their citizens. The blood of Pakistanis is cheap as they are like bonded labor generating billions of dollars in foreign exchange. It was nine billion dollars last year. No other sectors combined could show such productivity. The rulers see them replacable and spedable commodity.
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Jan 20, 2015 12:10am
I think main ppl who are might be saudian or big pakistani smuggler who send poor guys to KSA to visa visa, umra visa, or haj visa are responsible mainly. hanging poor guys will no change anything. ppl are hungry and wants to do everything so they can buy food for their family.
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Jan 20, 2015 12:11am
@A CONCERNED you are absolutely rght
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Jan 20, 2015 12:13am
the award for the cheapest head goes to Pakistan. When ummah is beheading Pakistanis, there is something seriously wrong.
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Jan 20, 2015 12:51am
When will Mr sharif wake up ???
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Jan 20, 2015 01:12am
Do these Saudis investigate who the heroine was meant for, who paid for it to be sent, etc. or just chop off the poor pathan's heads?
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Jan 20, 2015 01:42am
Saudis must be good customers for Heroine, that its worth dying for,
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Jan 20, 2015 01:47am
@Farah
the kingpins are main source of FDI for Pakistan and their politicians,, so only the poor ones need to suffer
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Jan 20, 2015 02:40am
U got to be honest look at uk jails full of pakistani people all for drugs
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Jan 20, 2015 06:27am
@Robinson - NY so true!
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Jan 20, 2015 06:28am
@wiserneighbour ......it still deters otherwise it would be higher
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Jan 20, 2015 06:29am
And what about those Saudis who were buying these drugs? They are still probably roaming free without a worry in the world.
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Jan 21, 2015 09:57am
@its me
We have read this repeated excuse of yours..Please..
we to have nearly 2.5 crore BD in our country as called refugees..
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Jan 21, 2015 01:32pm
It looks that Saudi police see each and every Pakistanis with suspect and keep 24x7 watch. I hope this year Pakistan won't make a century in behading at Saudi.
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Jan 21, 2015 07:36pm
We come to know about the beheading of Pakistanis in KSA because of heroin smuggling after regular intervals. On one hand it is extreme punishment to the victim and his family, while on the other it is to defame the pakistan and its citizens. The media must focus on this very important issue and highlight it in its programmed. The Govt must investigate and take concrete steps to stop the menace of smuggling of narcotics by the anti human and anti sate elements.
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Jan 21, 2015 11:54pm
Beheading punishment is not a sharia punishment. Quran does not prescribe this punishment for smugglers and carriers of drugs. More over it is injustice to spare users of drugs from any punishment and throw all blame on carriers.
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