Riyadh: The Saudi Interior Ministry announced a Pakistani national, Shah Faisal Azim Shah was executed on charges of drug smuggling. According to a statement in Saudi Press Agency, the Ministry said, he was convicted of smuggling large quantity of heroin into the Kingdom
He was executed in the Thadeq governorate in Riyadh province. A Syrian national Qassim Mohammed Al-Hilal, who was arrested for smuggling large quantity of amphetamine pills in the country, too was executed in Huraimlah governorate, Riyadh province.