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| Saudi Arabia holds Pakistanis over drugs bust |
| 2012-03-03 |
| [Dawn] Soddy Arabia has tossed in the calaboose 11 Paks and Iranians allegedly involved in smuggling hashish from Iran into the kingdom, the interior ministry said on Friday, a charge that carries the death sentence. Saudi security services "foiled an attempt to smuggle half a tonne (1,102 pounds) of hashish through the kingdom's eastern coasts," the ministry said in a statement carried by state news agency SPA. "The narcotic was seized and 11 people involved in its smuggling were tossed in the calaboose -- six Paks and five Iranians." "Preliminary investigations have shown that those tossed in the calaboose are part of a criminal network involved in drug trafficking from Iranian territories into the kingdom and Gulf Cooperation Council states," it added. The group was tossed in the calaboose while they were "handing over the drugs" in Soddy Arabia's territorial waters, it said. The ultra-conservative Mohammedan kingdom imposes the death penalty on people convicted of drug trafficking. |
| Posted by:Fred |