!5 Pakistanis Beheaded In Saudi Arabia Convicted Of Drug Smuggling

Haji Abdul Haq's son Muhammad Irfan is on the death row in saudi Kingdom, waiting for his name to be added to the growing roll of Pakistanis executed this year year by Saudis for heroin smuggling. Saudi Arabia has meted out gruesome fate to 74 people in 2014, 15 of them Pakistanis convicted of drug smuggling. families and right compaigners complain that their trial was opaque and unfair, accusing the Pakistani government doing nothing to help its citizens, afraid of offending an important and hugely wealthy ally.

Irafan's father said that two years ago four men came and said that in $2,000 they can get Irfan the plane ticket and visa to gulf--- for many poor Pakistanis a passport to better life. Irfan sold his rickshaw, wife's jewels and his tea seller father managed the rest of the money. The men took Irfan to Karachi but there thing became sour for Irfan. The men threatened him to kill if he did not accept what they want. They forced capsules of heroin into his anus. Then his new master put him on a flight to Saudi Arabia. On arrival in Riyath he was stopped and after a brisk trial he was sentenced to death. Since 1985, half of the 2,000 people executed have been foreigners, mostly from South Asia. almost half of Afghanistan's heroin production comes through Pakistan on its way to Europe and Asia. But in recent years gulf has become an important market, according to United Nation's Office on Drugs and Crimes. According to Saudi government in August and September nearly 400 people, including 300 foreigners, were arrested possessing or dealing in heroin. Saudi government says its wants to save its society from the scourge of the heroin but right groups are highly critic of its judicial system.