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112TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. R. 1790 

To prohibit assistance to Pakistan. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

MAY 5, 2011 

Mr. ROHRABACHER introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 

Committee on Foreign Affairs 

A BILL 

To prohibit assistance to Pakistan. 

1 Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa2 tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 

3 SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 

4 This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Defund United States 

5 Assistance to Pakistan Act of 2011’’. 

6 SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 

7 Congress finds the following: 

8 (1) On May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden, leader 

9 of al-Qaeda and master-mind of the 9/11 attacks 

10 that killed thousands of Americans, was killed by 

11 United States forces in Pakistan. 


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1 (2) Osama Bin Laden was hidden in the Paki2 stani city of Abbottabad within a mile of Pakistan’s 

3 major military academy, in a conspicuous and well 

4 fortified compound that dwarfed those around it. 

5 (3) Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Ad6 miral Mike Mullen, was quoted in Dawn, the major 

7 English-language newspaper in Pakistan, regarding 

8 United States-Pakistani relations saying: ‘‘It’s fairly 

9 well known that the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) 

10 has a longstanding relationship with the Haqqani 

11 network . . . Haqqani is supporting, funding, and 

12 training fighters that are killing Americans and kill13 ing coalition partners . . . So that’s at the core— 

14 it’s not the only thing—but that’s at the core that 

15 I think is the most difficult part of the relation16 ship.’’. 

17 (4) It was reported in The New York Times on 

18 April 28, 2011, that former Director of National In19 telligence, Dennis C. Blair, said regarding United 

20 States-Pakistani relations: ‘‘There has to be a major 

21 restructuring. The ISI jams the CIA all it wants and 

22 pays no penalties.’’. 

23 (5) It was reported in The Wall Street Journal 

24 on April 27, 2011, that on April 16, 2011, the 

25 Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani, 


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1 traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, and told Afghan 

2 President Hamid Karzai to strategically move Af3 ghanistan away from the United States and its ‘‘im4 perial designs’’ and to ally with Pakistan’s ‘‘all5 weather’’ friend, the communist People’s Republic of 

6 China. 

7 (6) It was reported in The Wall Street Journal 

8 on April 27, 2011, Pakistani officials are encour9 aging President Karzai not to be cooperative with 

10 the United States in reaching a mutually beneficial 

11 long-term bilateral agreement. 

12 (7) Such actions by the Government of Paki13 stan undermine the United States while the latter is 

14 conducting long-term strategic partnership talks 

15 with the Government of Afghanistan. 

16 (8) Pakistan has received over $18,000,000,000 

17 in assistance over the past decade from the United 

18 States and is due to receive additional assistance 

19 from the United States. 

20 (9) Pakistan has long harbored extremist 

21 groups operating in its territory that plan and con22 duct terrorist attacks in India and elsewhere, includ23 ing the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, 

24 which was responsible for the attacks on Mumbai, 

25 India, on November 26, 2008, in which the final 


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1 death toll from the attack exceeded 170 victims, 

2 with hundreds more injured. 

3 (10) Pakistan has a history beginning in the 

4 1980s of receiving assistance from China to build its 

5 nuclear weapons program and under the aegis of 

6 A.Q. Khan established and operated an illicit inter7 national nuclear proliferation network which sold nu8 clear technologies and designs to North Korea, Iran, 

9 and Libya, among other counties, which greatly ad10 vanced their programs to acquire nuclear weapons 

11 and gravely threatened international security. 

12 (11) While the United States has twice cut off 

13 economic and military aid to Pakistan as a result of 

14 its nuclear weapons program, in 1985 with the 

15 Pressler Amendment and in 1998 after Pakistan 

16 conducted nuclear test, each time the alleged need 

17 for Pakistani help in Afghanistan has been used as 

18 part of the argument to lift the sanctions, which al19 lowed Pakistan to continue its dangerous nuclear 

20 proliferation. 

21 (12) Pakistan through its ISI and military has 

22 shown itself to act against the interests of the 

23 United States by supporting terrorists who kill 

24 Americans and in other ways not befitting a recipi25 ent of United States aid. 


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1 SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN. 

2 Assistance may not be provided to Pakistan under 

3 any provision of law. 

4 SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE. 

5 This Act shall take effect on the date of the enact6 ment of this Act and shall apply with respect to amounts 

7 allocated for assistance to Pakistan that are unobligated 

8 or unexpended on or after such date. 

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