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Officials in Cairo say the move is the latest in a series to combat insurgency on their borders.

Last week, the Republican-controlled House approved a Pentagon budget bill that limits the Defense Department from spending more than 25 percent of its projected $1.1 billion budget for training and equipping Pakistani troops next year, unless the secretaries of defense and state submit a report to Congress showing how the money will be spent to combat insurgencies.

The high-level attention given to the future of the force, known as the Joint Special Operations Task Force-Philippines, illustrates the Pentagon's difficulty in finding enough of these highly trained units for assignments to two wars — as well as for the wider effort to combat insurgencies and militancy in other parts of the world deemed to be threats to American interests.

The Pentagon's strategy in 2003 and 2004 was to combat the insurgency simply by eliminating insurgents — an approach called "kill-capture".

Despite billions of dollars, it is unclear how much has been spent to combat the insurgency.

India has already offered its neighbor military equipment and intelligence to combat the insurgency.

The law was introduced in 1960 to help combat an insurgency by communist rebels, a period known as the "emergency".

Mr. Sahay believes that a greater number of officers available to combat the insurgency was essential to the turnaround.

But American officials say the Frontier Corps is in the long term the most suitable force to combat an insurgency.

With the withdrawal of many of its troops from the area, the international coalition is now forced to rely on air power to combat the insurgency.

At his news conference, Dr. Allawi offered few details about the new security division, called the General Security Directorate, except to say that it was intended to combat the insurgency.