Agartala, July 15: The arrested ISI agent, Manir Khan, is a sub-inspector of the army intelligence wing of Pakistan who tried to settle in the North-East with a fake Indian identity, CID sources said today.
Khan also tried to open a computer kiosk for creating a network for ISI in the region, they said.
During interrogation by the central intelligence agency RAW and intelligence officials of the Punjab police, Munir Khan alias Omar Ashraf admitted that he was a sub-inspector of Pakistan Army Intelligence and got arms training and special training for gathering intelligence outputs from India, the sources said.
Munir was recruited in 2008 and after his training last year, he went to Bangladesh from Karachi and communicated with other ISI agents in the neighbouring country before his return.
He again entered Tripura through Bangladesh on June 24 and arrested here along with six Indian collaborators on July 3.
–Agencies