Pakistan ? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke with Pakistan’s president about the situation in neighboring Afghanistan here Saturday, a Pakistani official said.

The visit came less than three weeks after the House passed legislation that would link U.S. military aid to Pakistan’s commitment to combatting Taliban militants – a measure some fear could strain relations between the two nations, allies in the war against al-Qaida and other terror groups.

Pelosi, D-Calif., and her delegation met with President Gen. Pervez Musharraf shortly after landing in Islamabad, the nation’s capital, the U.S. Embassy and a government official said. Neither the U.S. delegation nor Musharraf was scheduled to make any public comment.

“Both sides discussed … the situation in Afghanistan, and Nancy Pelosi appreciated Pakistani security agencies’ role in the war on terror,” said an official with Musharraf’s office, who requested anonymity because he is not an official spokesman.

Musharraf, the official said, also told Pelosi that “a stable, strong and prosperous Afghanistan was in Pakistan’s interest” and that Islamabad was doing everything possible to secure its border with Afghanistan.