Pakistan's Foreign Secretary Riaz Khokhar was in New Delhi for the"Composite Dialogue Process" between India and Pakistan during theweekend commencing June 26. The last round of talks between the ForeignSecretaries, in 1998, had been anything but cordial. When India's then ForeignSecretary K. Raghunath referred to the growing terrorist violence in Jammu andKashmir by the Pakistani jihadi group Lashkar-e-Taiba (LeT), his Pakistanicounterpart Shamshad Ahmad claimed that he was not even aware of the existenceof such an organization in his country. This assertion came despite the factthat the then Governor of Punjab, Shahid Hamid, and the then InformationMinister, Mushahid Hussain, had paid a highly publicized visit to theHeadquarters of the LeT at Muridhke near Lahore.