A Pakistani man was sentenced to 12 years in jail by an Australian court on Thursday for smuggling hundreds of would-be asylum seekers to Australia. Hasan Ayoub, 34, sent two boatloads of people to Australia's Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean in March and April 2001. Each had paid a passage fee of up to $12,000, the court heard. Ayoub was convicted in the Western Australian District Court in November on two counts of people smuggling.