Drishti Rajkhowa New Delhi: Security officials have said the seven-member team of proscribed ULFA led by deputy commander-in-chief Drishti Rajkhowa had undergone training in Pakistan.
The group had surrendered before the police recently.
Drishti and the other members of the team underwent the training at a location in Peshawar on the Afghanistan border in 2005, North East Now reported.
“Pakistani agencies had arranged fake passports for the seven-member group. Drishti’s passport bore the name of an unidentified Khasi resident of Shillong.The training was for two months. They were trained in RPG and IEDs,” security sources told The Assam Tribune quoting Drishti as telling the interrogators.
Meanwhile, sources said that at least four batches of the ULFA were trained in the Afghanistan-Pakistan border, reports the newspaper.
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