ISLAMABAD: Pakistan's envoy to the United States has asked the US, "We need more to make Pakistanis understand the American perspective and be sympathetic to it rather than enrage more Pakistanis against America".

The deadly cross-border raids into Pakistan by US commandos this week one after other failed to capture anyone important and helped the militants by enraging the Pakistani public, Husain Haqqani said in his remarks at a Washington think tank.

"Unilateral action by American forces does not help the war against terror because it only enrages public opinion. In the particular incidents, nothing was gained by the action of the troops," he said.

Haqqani declined to discuss details of the attack or his discussions with US officials on the raids, which drew a furious response from the Pakistan government. But he said the US commandos took "no one significant" and he warned that such actions "do the work of the militants by creating more support for them among the people".

While condemning the raid, the envoy said: "We will not let this incident come between close ties and strong military, intelligence and political cooperation between our countries." Seeking to dispel increasing concerns voiced by the US about Pakistan's will to fight militants, Ambassador Haqqani said the elected government in Islamabad would have wider legitimacy than former President Pervez Musharraf.

Musharraf offered the US "one phone call, one person, one decision" but failed to deliver results because decisions were "taken quickly, without prior planning and they were taken in response to some phone call or some pressure", he said.

Pakistan's democratically elected coalition government was more methodical and its troop deployments had political and legal legitimacy in a country where many people were suspicious of US motives, he said.

Husain Haqqani pointed to recent Pakistani military campaigns in Swat and tribal regions that had killed 560 people affiliated with al-Qaeda or the Taliban as an example of the results achieved by the new government.

NNI adds: Haqqani said the United States and Pakistan are stakeholders of the war on terror, and it is not good for Washington to take unilateral actions in Pakistan. He said the elected government will fight the war on terror effectively, and Asif Ali Zardari, after being elected as new President of Pakistan, will create unity and ensure balance of powers between parliament and the Presidency.