The Asian Age

Venkaiah warns Pak over terror, recalls 1971 war

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NDA vice-presidenti­al candidate Venkaiah Naidu has warned Pakistan against continuing to support terror and asked it to recall what happened in 1971. In the 14-day war that ensued in December that year, the Pakistan Army suffered a humiliatin­g defeat at the hands of India, leading to the liberation of the erstwhile East Pakistan which became Bangladesh.

“Terrorism is the enemy of humanity, it has no religion. It has unfortunat­ely Our neighbour should understand that aiding and abetting terror will not help them, they should recall what happened in 1971

Venkaiah Naidu, become Pakistan’s state policy,” Mr Naidu was quoted by a news agency as saying. “Our neighbour should understand that aiding and abetting terror will not help them, they should recall what happened in 1971,” he said, while speaking at the “Kargil Parakram Parade” in New Delhi. The event was organised to honour the Kargil martyrs.

“We are peace loving people, we never attacked any country and this is our speciality. We don’t want war, we don’t want confrontat­ion, we don’t want violence, we want to have peace, we also want to have good relationsh­ips with the neighbours, but they should

A 60-year-old Pakistani national, who was staying in a lodge in the coastal district of Ramanathap­uram without a passport and other travel documents, was arrested on Saturday. He had at least four fake Aadhaar card copies with him.

The arrest comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Rameswaram to inaugurate a memorial for the former president, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam on July 27.

The person was identified as Mohammed Yunus, from Karachi. He was arrested from a lodge in Ervadi, police said. He was carrying `2,500 in Pakistani currency and `3,000 in Indian currency. He is a narcotics dealer, who posed as a businessma­n dealing in nuts, police disclosed.

During interrogat­ion,

The arrest comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Rameswaram on July 27 to inaugaurat­e Kalam memorial

it came to light that he had come to Tamil Nadu illegally by a boat from Sri Lanka in the month of May and visited Ramanathap­uram, Madurai, Chennai, Bengaluru, Ahmedabad and Ajmer. After travelling to several places in trying to procure narcotics he had reached Ervadi, from where the police picked him up on Saturday. Two others from Ervadi, identified as Syed Abu Thahir and Abdul Aziz, who had allegedly promised to help him in procuring narcotics, were also arrested by police.

The Pakistani national was produced before a magistrate at his residence.

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