Yes, sir. Can I just say, first of all, that I think the opening of the joint intelligence centres is actually an excellent move. It's a step forward. I was in Pakistan on the last day of the week that I was in Afghanistan, and I had the opportunity to talk to their chief of general staff who runs the army, General Kayani, and the head of their intelligent services, both of whom are much engaged in this. They are established.
We as a country specifically are not engaged in it. Our Canadian commander, Region Command South, who works for NATO, our NATO commander, is engaged in the oversight of what is occurring from that perspective. But we specifically as a country don't have a direct role in it right now, except to support the NATO part of this one. That is work going on.
We actually think the Pakistanis are stepping up their efforts on the border in a way that we have not yet seen. They are well aware of the challenge. They are very concerned--at least, this is what I got when I was there--about the threat they have in Pakistan that comes from the Taliban strength in the federally administered tribal areas where there is very little governance, very little development, and very little security, except what the Taliban bring. They realize this is a major threat to Pakistan, and that's their first concern, so their efforts to contain it and to actually bring governance into that area to help develop that area have been stepped up and are stepping up significantly. We see evidence of that.
The joint intelligence centres are one good example of making sure the border doesn't become an artificial separation that allows the Taliban to stay on one side or the other.