Ever since I began working on this difficult

issue, I've been well aware of the allegations to which you refer, and

we have looked into them very carefully in the first 100 days of this

administration. I have had lengthy talks with the director of ISI,

General Pasha who is in Washington today and who I hope will get a

chance to meet with some of you. General Pasha wishes to state and

would tell you if he were here that ISI does not do these things

anymore. But he does not deny nor does anyone else that in the old

days, ISI and the American intelligence services worked together to

set up some of the organizations which have now turned against the

United States. And there may be some serious legacy issues.

It concerns me greatly and we need to put the most heavy possible

pressure on our friends in Pakistan to join us in the fight against

the Taliban and its allies. We cannot succeed in Afghanistan without

Pakistan's support and involvement, and that means working with the

Army and the intelligence services in that regard.