Saudi authorities on Sunday beheaded a Pakistani in Makkah for stabbing to death a compatriot, the interior ministry said. Altaf Hussein Hati was found guilty of stabbing a man in the throat and leaving him to bleed to death, the ministry said in a statement carried by SPA state news agency.

His beheading brings to 74 the number of people executed so far this year in the ultra-conservative kingdom, where 79 were put to death in 2011, according to Amnesty International.

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