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103D CONGRESS

2D SESSION H. RES. 541

Concerning United States and South Asian relations.

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

SEPTEMBER 22, 1994

Mr. MCDERMOTT submitted the following resolution; which was referred to

the Committee on Foreign Affairs

RESOLUTION

Concerning United States and South Asian relations.

Whereas the United States Government has longstanding

policies opposing the spread of terrorism and advocating

the destruction caused by narcotics trafficking;

Whereas the United States Government has devoted tens of

billions of United States taxpayer dollars during the past

decade fighting terrorism and drugs both within our borders and throughout the world;

Whereas, in 1992, Pakistan was placed on the State Department’s Watch List of nations suspected of supporting

terrorism;

Whereas, in 1993, the State Department dropped Pakistan

from its watch list;

Whereas former Pakistani Prime Minister Narwaz Sharif recently publicly admitted that his Chief of Staff, General
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Beg, and his head of the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI)

Agency informed him while he was Prime Minister that

the Pakistani Army and ISI planned to conduct covert

acts of terrorism in other countries and fund these activities through large scale narcotics sales;

Whereas 317 Indian citizens were killed in March, 1993, in

a series of bombings of the Bombay Stock Exchange and

other sites in Bombay in one of the worst acts of terrorism in the twentieth century;

Whereas a leading suspect in the bombing, Yakub Memon,

has publicly implicated the ISI in the bombings by accusing the ISI of providing arms, money, and explosives for

the attack, and directing Mr. Memon, his brother and

their associates on where to place the bombs and by providing Mr. Memon and his brother with transportation to

and from Pakistan and a large and lavish house in Pakistan for his brother and his family;

Whereas Indian Security forces in Kashmir have arrested numerous foreign nationals in Kashmir who have confessed

to having been trained, funded, supported, and armed by

ISI-backed elements across the border in Pakistan;

Whereas former Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif has recently

stated publicly that the Government of Pakistan, for several years, has possessed nuclear weapons in direct contradiction to repeated assurances to the United States

Government that Pakistan does not possess and is not attempting to develop nuclear weapons;

Whereas, in 1987, the United States Congress enacted and

President Reagan signed into law the Pressler Amendment banning foreign aid to Pakistan until the President
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certifies that Pakistan does not possess a nuclear weapon; and

Whereas President Bush and President Clinton have been unable to certify that Pakistan does not possess a nuclear

weapon: Now, therefore, be it

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that—

3 (1) the United States condemns the involve4 ment of Pakistan in acts of terrorism in other coun5 tries;

6 (2) the United States condemns any involve7 ment by Pakistan in the illegal manufacture, sale,

8 transportation, or distribution of any narcotic sub9 stance;

10 (3) the United States urges Pakistan to cooper11 ate with law enforcement authorities in the United

12 States to reduce and eliminate the growing heroin

13 trade in Pakistan, which currently accounts for 20

14 percent of all the heroin sold in the United States;

15 (4) the United States urges the Administration

16 to review the State Department decision in 1993 to

17 drop Pakistan from the Watch List of nations which

18 are suspected of supporting terrorism; and

19 (5) the United States reaffirms the validity and

20 wisdom of the Pressler Amendment prohibiting for21 eign assistance to Pakistan in light of Prime Min-
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1 ister Sharif’s public admission that Pakistan has

2 possessed nuclear weapons for several years despite

3 repeated assurances to the contrary to the United

4 States.

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