Saudi authorities Tuesday beheaded a Pakistani national convicted of smuggling drugs into the kingdom. An Interior Ministry statement said the smuggler had been carrying a forged passport and had confessed to committing the crime, which is punishable by death. The execution took place in public in the Saudi capital, Riyadh, early in the morning. Last week, another three Pakistani smugglers were beheaded in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah. Tuesday's beheading brought to 32 the number of people executed this year in Saudi Arabia, mostly smugglers. Executions of people convicted of murder, rape, armed robbery and drug trafficking are conducted in public. Some 52 people, including expatriates, were executed in Saudi Arabia in 2003. © Copyright 2004 by United Press International

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