Drug dealer sentenced to death in Abu Dhabi

An Abu Dhabi court has sentenced a Pakistani drug dealers to death after he was seized trying to sell heroin in the Capital, a newspaper said Wednesday.

The 23-year-old man agreed to sell the narcotics to a decoy agent from the Sharjah anti-drug squad in Abu Dhabi, where he was seized as he was paid Dh37,000 for the stuff, Alittihad Arabic language daily said.

The defendant told Abu Dhabi police that the drugs do not belong to him but to a friend, who phoned him from Pakistani and told him the heroin is hidden in the area where he works.