PAK NATIONAL COMES TO TN BY BOAT FROM SRI LANKA, HELD

RAMANATHAPURAM (TN): A 65-year-old Pakistan national has been arrested on charges including of drug- peddling, police said on Sunday. The arrest comes ahead of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Rameswaram in the district to inaugurate a memorial for former president late APJ Abdul Kalam on July 27. Mohammed Yunus, from Karachi, was arrested from a lodge in Ervadi, they said. Ervadi is famous for its centuries-old dargah in Ramanathapuram district. When he was arrested on Saturday, he neither had a passport nor a visa. He was carrying Pakistani Rupees 2,500 and Rs 3,000 in Indian currency, the police said.