The cyber café was a deep cover implant that had been established by the ISI several months ago and was to be activated only for a priority assignment, after clearance from the very highest quarters. Brigadier Murad Salim was definitely high up enough in the ISI hierarchy to ensure it was made available to him without a fuss. The café, located in one of the several narrow lanes that radiated into Khirki Gaon colony opposite the small temple on the main road, was sited in a carefully reconnoitred and selected building. This particular lane was almost always deserted since it dead-ended just two houses beyond the cyber café. Both houses behind the cyber café were occupied by mid-level workers employed in the host of small factories and offices that crowded the colony. Since most of them were out-of-town migrants, residents were quite used to all kinds of people coming and going at odd hours; new faces drew no special attention here. The first man arrived just before daybreak. The other five men arrived separately at irregular intervals of ten to twenty minutes.
