On the contrary, Indian agencies reported over a month ago that Lakhvi’s Thuraya phone was still moving around in Pakistan-Occupied Kashmir. While this, in itself, may not lead to anything conclusive about his status, it has only created doubts in the minds of Indian officials.

All this, along with the re-emergence of Jamaat-ud-Dawa under the banner of Falah-i-Insaaniyat, which parades itself as a humanitarian organization doing relief work among people displaced from the Swat valley, has put a question mark on the possibility of resuming the composite dialogue.

Recalling that today is the anniversary of the attack on the Indian embassy in Kabul, government sources said, the dialogue has been effectively on pause since then. They repeatedly stressed that the meeting of the Foreign Secretaries in Egypt will only take stock of the steps Pakistan has taken so far on not just the Mumbai attacks but on all other terrorist attacks in India aided by Pak-based groups. The meeting is slated for July 14 while PM Manmohan Singh will meet his Pakistan counterpart Yousuf Raza Gilani on July 16.