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Summary Jaafar Ghulam Ali was "arrested as he was smuggling a large amount of heroin.
RIYADH (Agencies) - Saudi authorities beheaded a Pakistani man Wednesday in the eastern Qatif province after he was convicted of drug trafficking in the kingdom, the interior ministry announced.
Jaafar Ghulam Ali was "arrested as he was smuggling a large amount of heroin," said the ministry statement quoted by the official SPA news agency.
His beheading brings to 71 the number of people executed in Saudi Arabia so far this year.
