WASHINGTON " Pakistan intends to deploy a specially trained unit of its Special Service Group into tribal areas along its border with Afghanistan as part of efforts to counter the growing threat from insurgents, The Los Angles Times reported Sunday, citing unnamed officials. The US-trained commando division is an elite special operations force, the newspaper said, comparing it with the U.S. Army's Special Forces, or Green Berets. So far Pakistan has sent conventional troops who do not have training in the kind of guerrilla warfare techniques. "The Americans tell us that they need action now," a senior Pakistani official, who was in Washington last week during Prime Minister Yusaf Raza Gilani's meetings with President George W. Bush, was quoted as saying. Deployment of the special Pakistani force "will meet the American demand of immediate action." The senior Pakistani official said the proposals were calibrated to protect Pakistan's sovereignty. The Pakistani government also has proposed allowing the United States to deploy more sophisticated equipment in the tribal areas in a joint effort to track and kill insurgents, The Times said, citing officials, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the actions under consideration and their diplomatic sensitivity. Pakistan's military has told the Pentagon that it is planning to move a major unit of its regular army into the tribal areas, according to The Times' dispatch. And senior Pakistani officials have proposed a plan in which the intelligence services of both countries would work to end the conflict between the spies and informants that each uses in the tribal areas and who have often been working against each other. The new moves come in the wake of U.S. officials accusing the Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI, of assisting extremists linked to anti-Western activities, including the bombing last month of the Indian Embassy in Kabul. Pakistan, in turn, has criticized the CIA for cultivating assets in the region that it believes are against Islamabad's interests. "The Pakistan government wants to show that we want to bring terror in our region to an end and that we want to work with the United States for that purpose," the senior Pakistani official was further quoted as saying. "But we also believe that there is more that the United States can do as well, and that we have asked it to do." Pakistan has asked for more intelligence-sharing, training and equipment for its forces, including night-vision goggles and the latest technology for intercepting communications, said Nadeem Haider Kiani, Pakistan's press attache in Washington. The new coalition government also has agreed to negotiate ways in which the United States could use unmanned Predator aircraft for missile strikes against high-value targets in Pakistan in cooperation with the Islamabad government, the newspaper said, citing officials. The United States, it noted, has launched many of the so-called unilateral missile strikes against suspected Al Qaeda and Taliban leaders in recent years with little or no notice because Bush administration officials believed that some ISI members might tip off the targets. Such strikes have angered Pakistan, especially one last week that came hours before Gilani's meeting with Bush. Gilani and his aides got an earful from both the White House and Congress about the need to act far more aggressively in the tribal areas. Several senior officials would not comment on what Pakistan has proposed, saying that disclosing details could undermine the efforts. Officially, the CIA and the Pentagon also had no comment. One U.S. intelligence official, however, confirmed that some proposals under discussion would allow the CIA to improve its capabilities in the tribal areas, possibly in concert with Pakistani intelligence. Pakistan's Ambassador to the U.S., Husain Haqqani, according to The Times, confirmed that various proposals were discussed during last week's meetings, but he said he could not talk about them. On Saturday, Ambassador Haqqani told Public Broadcasting System (PBS) that Pakistan and the United States have agreed on a set of measures in tandem with one another to address their respective security concerns. "The two governments have agreed upon a set of measures that both sides are going to take in tandem with one another to ensure that American concerns are allayed and Pakistan's concerns about its sovereignty and about civilian authority and control and its concerns relating to Afghanistan and India are all addressed together," he said on the channel's Charie Rose's talk show. Kiani, the press attache, said, "They have agreed to take certain measures, but it would not be appropriate to make them public, so that the results could be achieved. "But we are discussing and have agreed to take certain actions to strengthen relations between the two countries and to fight the war against terrorism more successfully so our mutual objectives could be achieved." The senior Pakistan official said the government is working with the military and the ISI to gain their full cooperation for the proposed initiatives. "They haven't said no and they haven't said yes," said the official. "It is all very delicate."