RIYADH – Two Pakistani nationals were killed and their bodies crucified ata public park yesterday for having committed multiple crimes in SaudiArabia, the country’s interior ministry announced.

In a statement, the ministry said that Adam Khan Iyas Khan and AsadMohammed Yousef Khan committed a series of capital crimes against a numberof expatriates in the Kingdom, including assassination, robbery, and theftusing deceptive and delusionary tricks to reach their goals and finallygetting rid of the bodies of their victims.

“Thanks to Allah the Almighty, the security authorities have apprehendedthem, and send them to justice where they pleaded guilty at all levels oflitigation,” the statement said.

A royal order endorsed a rule issued by the consecutive courts of theKingdom, climaxed by the Appeal and Higher Courts, to execute the culpritsat a public park according Islamic Sharia law.

Saudi Arabia executes more Pakistanis than any other foreign nationalityannually, nearly all for heroin smuggling, according to the study byJustice Project Pakistan and Human Rights Watch (HRW).

Sixty-six Pakistanis were beheaded in the country between 2014 and 2017alone, according to the report entitled “Caught in a Web”.

With 1.6 million nationals, Pakistanis constitute the second largestforeign community in Saudi Arabia, and most are members of a low-skilledworkforce with few rights.

Some 2,795 Pakistanis are currently imprisoned in Saudi Arabia.