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| British woman gets life in Pakistan for drugs smuggling | British woman gets life in Pakistan for drugs smuggling |
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| A British woman has been sentenced to life imprisonment in Pakistan after being convicted of trying to smuggle 63kg of heroin out of the country. | |
| Khadija Shah, 26, from Birmingham, was heavily pregnant when she was arrested at Islamabad airport in May 2012. | |
| Shah, who gave birth to a baby girl, Malaika, in while in jail, denied the charges against her. | |
| She had two other children with her at the time of her arrest, but they have since returned to Britain. | She had two other children with her at the time of her arrest, but they have since returned to Britain. |
| In 2012, a court in Rawalpindi heard Shah was arrested after 63kg of heroin, with a UK street value of about £3.2m, was found in several suitcases in her possession. | |
| Shah claimed she was carrying the cases for someone else and was unaware of the contents. | |
| Her family raised concerns for her health, and that of her baby, in a statement in May last year. | |
| At the time, the legal charity Reprieve said it was worried the child had not received the immunisations she would have in the UK and there had been an outbreak of tuberculosis in the prison in 2012. | |
| Prison officials had said Shah and her baby were being treated well. |