Saudi Arabia beheads Pakistani for drug trafficking

A Pakistani convicted of smuggling heroin and two local men who robbed a bank and murdered a foreigner were beheaded in Saudi Arabia today, the official Saudi Press Agency reported.

Pakistani Khanzadah Abdul Qayoum, had hidden the drugs “inside his body,” presumably having wrapped the heroin in plastic and swallowed it, the Interior Ministry said in a statement carried by the news agency. He was beheaded in Riyadh.