An Indonesian court on Tuesday sentenced a Pakistani to death for drug trafficking, the latest in a series of death sentences against foreigners. Judges at a district court in Tangerang, south-west of Jakarta, ruled that Zulfikar Ali was guilty of trafficking 300 grams of heroin. Ali was arrested along with his Indonesian girlfriend last August.
Indonesian courts have passed death sentences on at least 32 people, mostly foreigners, for drug offences since the year 2000. None of those death sentences have been carried out so far.
Two Thai nationals and an Indian convicted for drug trafficking in 1994 were executed by firing squads last year.
Indonesia has pledged to get tough on a growing drug abuse problem.