RIYADH: Saudi Arabia on Wednesday beheaded a Pakistani for heroin smuggling, the interior ministry said, in the kingdom`s latest execution of a foreigner.

Mohammed Ghafour Hashim Khan was convicted of smuggling `a large amount` of heroin into the country, the ministry said in a statement published by the official Saudi Press Agency. The sentence was carried out in Eastern Province.

Khan`s case brings to 83 the number of foreigners and Saudis executed in the kingdom this year, including 11 Pakistanis since October, according to a tally.-AFP