WASHINGTON - Ahead of Prime Minister Yousaf Raza Gilani's arrival for a three-day visit, Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States Husain Haqqani Sunday envoy cautioned Washington against the notion of unilateral action against militants along the Pak-Afghan border. "If you keep saying, 'Let's do it together"but if you won't then we'll do it alone; then what you're doing is undermining the spirit of working together to begin with'," he said in an interview with The Washington Post. Ambassador Haqqani was responding to reports that the United States and NATO are considering the deployment of ground forces across the border from Afghanistan to raid terrorist camps in Pakistan. The coalition government, which came into power following parliamentary elections this year, has stressed a multi-pronged approach to curbing militancy through a combination of political, economic and security measures. Ambassador Haqqani reaffirmed Pakistan's commitment to address extremism through a multifaceted approach in tribal areas and said the U.S. legislators "should be patient with the new government for a year or so and see if it is able to translate its ideas into actions,". During his visit to Washington, the Pakistani prime minister will have talks with President George W. Bush Monday and interact with the top Congressional leaders. His programme has been carefully prepared under the leadership of Ambassador Haqqani. The prime minister will mount a strong defence of Pakistan's counterterrorism strategy in the backdrop of recent tensions along the border. Gilani, the ambassador told the newspaper, has "high hopes" that he can make Congress understand "many interconnected and complex issues of India-Pakistan relations, Pakistan's internal civil-military relations and Pakistan's insecurities about its environment, its neighborhood and the intentions of its neighbors. "It cannot simply be resolved within a matter of a few days or a few weeks," he added. The Post in its story Sunday also touched on the importance of consideration for Pakistan's views about the region. Daniel Markey, a Pakistan expert at the Council on Foreign Relations, said, "We need to be very sensitive to the fact that Pakistan doesn't see the world exactly the same way we do. They don't see the threats the same way that we do," he told The Post, which also referred to Pakistan's security considerations vis-a-vis India and Afghanistan. According to The Post, Gillani has a clear agenda: He wants more aid, more patience and less pressure from the United States as his four-month-old coalition government develops a strategy to combat Taliban and al-Qaeda forces in the tribal areas along his country's border with Afghanistan. "But while Gillani may leave town with more money -- targeted toward education, development and assistance to cope with skyrocketing food and fuel prices -- U.S. patience is likely to be in short supply, with the Bush administration publicly chastising the new Pakistani leadership for its reluctance to move aggressively against terrorist redoubts inside its territory," the newspaper said in its dispatch. "Pakistan is a friend; Pakistan is an ally," President Bush said this month, but the rise in cross-border infiltration "ought to be troubling" to its government. Other officials, according to the newspaper, were more blunt: "We need Pakistan to put more pressure on that border," Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Adm. Michael Mullen said last week, while on Friday, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice echoed that Pakistan "need[s] to do more." Congress, it noted, has grown increasingly outspoken against Pakistan's preference for negotiating with tribal leaders. Current legislative proposals make any new U.S. counterterrorism aid -- the bulk of more than $10 billion Washington has provided Pakistan since 2001 -- conditional on demonstrated results. "We fully agree they need a multi-pronged strategy" combining economic assistance, negotiations and development of a stronger indigenous security force in the tribal regions, a senior administration official was quoted as saying. And the Bush administration welcomed a full-throated government pronouncement last month that expressed unwavering opposition to any terrorist activities launched from Pakistani soil. "But you've got to be willing to do what's necessary when it comes to people who are trying to kill you," the administration official said. "We'd all be happy if you could do this by persuasion or development alone. But I think we all know that . . . in the end, you have to use force."