WASHINGTON: - Amid stepped up U.S. pressure on Pakistan's government to bring the country's spy agency under civilian control, Pakistani Ambassador Husain Haqqani said Friday night that the two countries have agreed on new measures to address their respective security concerns. In an interview with a major television channel, the ambassador also called for better intelligence cooperation between the two countries to combat militants along the border with Afghanistan. "During the prime minister (Yousuf Raza Gilani's) visit, 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, appearing jointly with his wife, MNA Farahnaz Isphahani on "Tonight on Charlie Rose" news show. However, he declined to elaborate those measures, saying a lot of details were being worked out. Ambassador Haqqani, who stoutly defended Pakistan's stand, also dealt with  the allegations that some members of Pakistani intelligence service were involved in the July 7 bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, saying his government wanted hard evidence to deal with the matter. "If India and Afghanistan level some allegations and the United States supports them, we need evidence, we need hard evidence," he added. He said that American authorities have yet to show Pakistani officials specific evidence to support that conclusion. "If any evidence were to be presented against any individual in Pakistan, or against the interest of Pakistan's neighbors, then the government would certainly act on that evidence." Haqqani hinted, however, that the civilian government would investigate any ISI officers who might be in league with militants, and laid blame on President Pervez Musharraf, who was firmly in power until elections earlier this year. "Several outstanding problems in the relationship between the United States and Pakistan that the elected government inherited from the past are currently being resolved,"Haqqani said. "These include issues of trust between our two intelligence services." Underscoring the government's will to curb militancy and extremism, he said it "will get its act together." At the same time, he also urged patience and highlighted the importance of American assistance with technical equipment and training. He said, "a lot of the complaints you are seeing in the press don't relate to what the government is doing today but the consequences of what happened in last several years" but also reminded of the failures inside Afghanistan where narcotics feed terrorism. The two sides are now trying to address the "trust deficit" in the field of intelligence, he stated. He pointed out that the short-term measure in the fight against violent extremism is taking out networks and intelligence sharing is the key to that. The government, he asserted, will take action against the groups that support the militants. "Action will be taken against networks the CIA says it has hard intelligence on, but it (CIA) will have to share that intelligence with us." In response to a question he said, "under the leadership of Gen Ashfaq Parvez Kayani, who is professional soldier, the Pakistani military has regained its credibility." In the course of the interview, Haqqani also made it clear that Pakistan would not allow foreign troops on its soil. "Pakistanis do not like the idea, a nation with nuclear weapons, a nation with a very large military, it is against their pride to let American troops come in, especially when there is no guarantee that American troops coming in will solve the problem either." Instead, the envoy emphasized, all anti-terrorism partners - Pakistan, Afghanistan, US, NATO - need to have joint military strategy and work together for effective results. Today's dispatch in The New York Times said, "During meetings in Washington this week with Pakistan's prime minister, Yousaf Raza Gilani, senior Bush administration officials pressed their Pakistani counterparts to assert control over Inter-Services Intelligence, or ISI... The pressure comes as relations between India and Pakistan deteriorate following reports of ISI involvement in the recent bombing of the Indian Embassy in Kabul, Afghanistan. The American pressure reflects heightened concerns at the State D"epartment, Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency that operatives in the ISI, who have long been believed to have close ties to Pakistani militants, have become bolder and more open in their support for militant Islamist organizations."