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(2) the use of child soldiers is a violation of 
human rights and the prevention and elimination of 
child soldiers should be a foreign policy goal of the 
United States; 
(3) the use of child soldiers promotes killing 
and maiming, sexual violence, abductions, desta-
bilization, and displacement; 
(4) investing in the health, education, well 
being, and safety of children, and providing eco-
nomic opportunity and vocational training for at-risk 
youth, is critical to achieving the goals of the United 
Nations Convention of the Rights of Children; and 
(5) countries should raise to 18 years of age the 
minimum age for the voluntary recruitment of per-
sons into their national armed forces. 
DIVISION B—PEACE ACT OF 2009 
SEC. 1. SHORT TITLE AND TABLE OF CONTENTS. 
(a) SHORT TITLE.—This division may be cited as the 
‘‘Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation En-
hancement Act of 2009’’ or the ‘‘PEACE Act of 2009’’. 
(b) TABLE OF CONTENTS.—The table of contents of 
this division is as follows: 
Sec. 1. Short title and table of contents. 
Sec. 2. Definitions. 
Sec. 3. Findings. 
Sec. 4. Declaration of principles. 
TITLE I—DEMOCRATIC, ECONOMIC, AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 
ASSISTANCE FOR PAKISTAN 
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Sec. 101. Purposes of assistance. 
Sec. 102. Authorization of assistance. 
Sec. 103. Multilateral support for Pakistan. 
Sec. 104. Pakistan Democracy and Prosperity Fund. 
Sec. 105. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE II—SECURITY ASSISTANCE FOR PAKISTAN 
Sec. 201. Sense of Congress. 
Sec. 202. Purposes of assistance. 
Sec. 203. Authorization of assistance. 
Sec. 204. Pakistan Counterinsurgency Capability Fund. 
Sec. 205. Exchange program between military and civilian personnel of Paki-
stan and certain other countries. 
Sec. 206. Limitation on United States military assistance to Pakistan. 
Sec. 207. Authorization of appropriations. 
TITLE III—MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS 
Sec. 301. Comprehensive regional security strategy. 
Sec. 302. Monitoring and evaluation of assistance. 
Sec. 303. Auditing. 
Sec. 304. Requirements for civilian control of United States assistance for 
Pakistan. 
Sec. 305. Sense of Congress. 
Sec. 306. Reports. 
Sec. 307. Sunset. 
TITLE IV—DUTY-FREE TREATMENT FOR CERTAIN GOODS FROM 
RECONSTRUCTION OPPORTUNITY ZONES IN AFGHANISTAN AND 
PAKISTAN 
Sec. 401. Short title. 
Sec. 402. Definitions; Purposes. 
Sec. 403. Designation of Reconstruction Opportunity Zones. 
Sec. 404. Duty-free treatment for certain nontextile and nonapparel articles. 
Sec. 405. Duty-free treatment for certain textile and apparel articles. 
Sec. 406. Protections against unlawful transshipment. 
Sec. 407. Technical assistance, capacity building, compliance assessment, and 
remediation program. 
Sec. 408. Petition process. 
Sec. 409. Limitations on providing duty-free treatment. 
Sec. 410. Termination of benefits. 
Sec. 411. Customs user fees. 
SEC. 2. DEFINITIONS. 
In this division: 
(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—Except as otherwise provided in this divi-
sion, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
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tees’’ means the Committees on Appropriations and 
Foreign Affairs of the House of Representatives and 
the Committees on Appropriations and Foreign Re-
lations of the Senate. 
(2) COUNTERINSURGENCY.—The term ‘‘coun-
terinsurgency’’ means efforts to defeat organized 
movements that seek to overthrow the duly con-
stituted Governments of Pakistan and Afghanistan 
through the use of subversion and armed conflict. 
(3) COUNTERTERRORISM.—The term ‘‘counter-
terrorism’’ means efforts to combat— 
(A) al Qaeda; and 
(B) other terrorist organizations, as such 
term is defined in section 212(a)(3)(B)(vi) of 
the Immigration and Nationality Act (8 U.S.C. 
1182(a)(3)(B)(vi)). 
(4) FATA.—The term ‘‘FATA’’ means the 
Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. 
(5) FCR.—The term ‘‘FCR’’ means the Fron-
tier Crimes Regulation, codified under British law in 
1901, and applicable to the FATA. 
(6) NWFP.—The term ‘‘NWFP’’ means the 
North West Frontier Province of Pakistan, which 
has Peshawar as its provincial capital. 
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SEC. 3. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) The Islamic Republic of Pakistan has been 
a critical ally of the United States for more than 4 
decades. 
(2) With the free and fair election of February 
18, 2008, Pakistan returned to civilian rule after al-
most 9 years under a military dictatorship. 
(3) After the September 11, 2001, terrorist at-
tacks against the United States, Pakistan chose to 
partner with the United States in the fight against 
al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other extremist and ter-
rorist groups. 
(4) Since 2001, the United States has contrib-
uted more than $12,000,000,000 to Pakistan to 
strengthen Pakistan’s governance, economy, edu-
cation system, healthcare services, and military, so 
as to bring freedom and opportunities to the people 
of Pakistan while helping to combat terrorism and 
to counter a domestic insurgency. 
(5) The United States requires a balanced, inte-
grated, countrywide strategy that provides assistance 
throughout Pakistan and does not disproportionately 
focus on military assistance or one particular area or 
province. 
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(6) Despite killing or capturing hundreds of al 
Qaeda operatives and other terrorists—including 
major al Qaeda leaders, such as Khalid Sheikh Mu-
hammad, Ramzi bin al-Shibh, and Abu Faraj al- 
Libi—Pakistan’s FATA, parts of the NWFP, 
Quetta in Balochistan, and Muridke in Punjab re-
main a sanctuary for al Qaeda, the Afghan Taliban, 
and affiliated groups from which these groups orga-
nize terrorist actions against Pakistan and other 
countries. 
(7) Pakistan’s security forces have recently 
begun taking concerted action against those who 
threaten Pakistan’s security and stability, with mili-
tary operations in the Bajour agency in the FATA 
and in the Swat, Buner, and Dir districts in the 
NWFP. 
(8) The displacement of over 1,000,000 Paki-
stanis poses a grave humanitarian crisis and re-
quires the immediate attention of the United Na-
tions, and the strong support of donor nations, to 
provide food, water, shelter, medicine, sanitation and 
other emergency services and supplies to the dis-
placed, along with longer-term development assist-
ance.
The humanitarian crisis highlights the need 
for Pakistan to develop an effective national counter-
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insurgency strategy, in order to mitigate such dis-
placement. 
SEC. 4. DECLARATION OF PRINCIPLES. 
Congress declares that the relationship between the 
United States and Pakistan should be based on the fol-
lowing principles: 
(1) Pakistan is a critical friend and ally to the 
United States, both in times of strife and in times 
of peace, and the two countries share many common 
goals, including combating terrorism and violent 
radicalism, solidifying democracy and rule of law in 
Pakistan, and promoting the social and material 
well-being of the people of Pakistan. 
(2) United States assistance to Pakistan is in-
tended to supplement, not supplant, Pakistan’s own 
efforts in building a stable, secure, and prosperous 
Pakistan, and United States assistance will be whol-
ly ineffective without Pakistan’s own serious efforts 
to improve the health, education, and living stand-
ards of its population, including maintaining or in-
creasing the financial resources devoted to such ef-
forts. 
(3) The United States supports Pakistan’s 
struggle against extremist elements and recognizes 
the profound sacrifice made by Pakistan in the fight 
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against terrorism, including the loss of more than 
1,600 soldiers since 2001 in combat with al Qaeda, 
the Taliban, and other extremist and terrorist 
groups. 
(4) The United States intends to work with the 
Government of Pakistan— 
(A) to build mutual trust and confidence 
by actively and consistently pursuing a sus-
tained, long-term, multifaceted relationship be-
tween the two countries, devoted to strength-
ening the mutual security, stability, and pros-
perity of both countries; 
(B) to support the people of Pakistan and 
their democratic government in their efforts to 
consolidate democracy, through strengthening 
Pakistan’s parliament, helping Pakistan rees-
tablish an independent and transparent judicial 
system, and working to extend the rule of law 
in all areas in Pakistan; 
(C) to promote long-term development and 
infrastructure projects, including in healthcare, 
water management, and energy programs, in all 
areas of Pakistan, that are sustained and sup-
ported by each successive democratic govern-
ment in Pakistan; 
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(D) to encourage sustainable economic de-
velopment in Pakistan and the integration of 
Pakistan into the global economy in order to 
improve the living conditions of the people of 
Pakistan; 
(E) to ensure that the people of Pakistan, 
including those living in areas governed by the 
FCR, have access to public, modernized edu-
cation and vocational training to enable them to 
provide for themselves, for their families, and 
for a more prosperous future for their children; 
(F) to expand people-to-people engagement 
between the two countries, through increased 
educational, technical, and cultural exchanges 
and other methods; 
(G) to ensure transparency of and provide 
effective accountability for all United States as-
sistance and reimbursements provided to Paki-
stan; 
(H) to take steps to improve Pakistan’s 
counterterrorism 
financing 
and 
anti-money 
laundering laws to comply with international 
standards, to include applying for ‘‘Financial 
Action Task Force’’ observer status and adher-
ing to the United Nations International Con-
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vention for the Suppression of the Financing of 
Terrorism; 
(I) to establish a counterinsurgency and 
counterterrorism strategy to prevent any terri-
tory of Pakistan from being used as a base or 
conduit for terrorist attacks in Pakistan, or 
elsewhere, and ensure that madrasas in Paki-
stan are not used to incite terrorism; 
(J) to ensure that Pakistan has strong and 
effective law enforcement and national defense 
forces, under civilian leadership, with sufficient 
and appropriate security equipment and train-
ing to effectively defend Pakistan against inter-
nal and external threats; 
(K) to ensure access of United States in-
vestigators to individuals suspected of engaging 
in worldwide proliferation of nuclear materials, 
as necessary, and restrict such individuals from 
travel or any other activity that could result in 
further proliferation; 
(L) to help Pakistan meet its commitment 
to not support any person or group that con-
ducts violence, sabotage, or other activities 
meant to instill fear or terror in Pakistan’s 
neighboring countries; and 
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(M) to help Pakistan gain control of its 
under-governed areas and stop any support, di-
rection, guidance to, or acquiescence in the ac-
tivities of, any person or group that engages in 
acts of violence or intimidation against civilians, 
civilian groups, or governmental entities. 
TITLE 
I—DEMOCRATIC, 
ECO-
NOMIC, AND SOCIAL DEVEL-
OPMENT 
ASSISTANCE 
FOR 
PAKISTAN 
SEC. 101. PURPOSES OF ASSISTANCE. 
The purposes of assistance under this title are— 
(1) to demonstrate unequivocally the long-term 
commitment of the United States to the people of 
Pakistan and Pakistan’s democratic institutions; 
(2) to support the consolidation of democracy, 
good governance, and the rule of law in Pakistan; 
(3) to help build the capacity of law enforce-
ment forces in Pakistan to combat terrorism and 
violent militancy and expeditiously investigate, ar-
rest, and prosecute alleged criminals, consistent with 
the rule of law and due process; 
(4) to further the sustainable and effective eco-
nomic and social development of Pakistan and the 
improvement of the living conditions of the people of 
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Pakistan, especially in areas of direct interest and 
importance to their daily lives; 
(5) to strengthen regional ties between Pakistan 
and its neighbors by offering concrete nonmilitary 
assistance for issues of mutual economic and social 
concern; 
(6) to strengthen Pakistan’s public education 
system, increase literacy, expand opportunities for 
vocational training, and help create an appropriate 
national curriculum for all schools in Pakistan; 
(7) to expand people-to-people engagement be-
tween the United States and Pakistan, through in-
creased educational, technical, and cultural ex-
changes and other methods; 
(8) to strengthen respect for internationally rec-
ognized human rights in efforts to stabilize the secu-
rity environment in Pakistan; and 
(9) to promote the rights and empowerment of 
women and girls in Pakistan, including efforts to in-
crease access to basic healthcare services to address 
Pakistan’s high maternal mortality rate and to in-
crease girls’ and women’s access to education. 
SEC. 102. AUTHORIZATION OF ASSISTANCE. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—To carry out the purposes of sec-
tion 101, the President is authorized to provide assistance 
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for Pakistan to support the activities described in sub-
section (b). 
(b) ACTIVITIES SUPPORTED.—Activities that may be 
supported by assistance under subsection (a) include the 
following: 
(1) FORTIFYING DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS.— 
To support, notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, democratic institutions in Pakistan in order to 
strengthen civilian rule and long-term stability, in-
cluding assistance such as— 
(A) support for efforts to strengthen the 
National Parliament of Pakistan, including— 
(i) assistance to parliamentary com-
mittees to enhance the capacity to conduct 
public hearings and oversee government 
activities, including national security issues 
and the military budget, to solicit input on 
key public policy issues, and to oversee the 
conduct of elections; 
(ii) support for the establishment of 
constituency offices and otherwise promote 
the responsibility of members of par-
liament to respond to constituents; and 
(iii) strengthening of the role of par-
liamentary leadership; 
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(B) support for voter education and civil 
society training, including training with grass-
roots organizations to enhance the capacity of 
the organizations to advocate for the develop-
ment of public policy; 
(C) support for political parties, including 
increasing their capacity and protecting their 
right to carry out political activities without re-
striction (other than reasonable administrative 
requirements commonly applied in democratic 
countries) and fostering the responsiveness of 
such parties to the needs of the people of Paki-
stan; 
(D) support for strengthening the capacity 
of the civilian Government of Pakistan to carry 
out its responsibilities, including supporting the 
establishment of frameworks that promote gov-
ernment transparency and criminalize corrup-
tion in both the government and private sector, 
audit offices, inspectors general offices, third- 
party monitoring of government procurement 
processes, whistle-blower protections, and anti- 
corruption agencies; and 
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(E) in particular, support for efforts by the 
Government of Pakistan to promote governance 
reforms in the FATA, including— 
(i) extension of the Political Parties 
Act; 
(ii) local experimentation with meth-
ods to transition from the FCR; and 
(iii) long-term development of durable 
and responsive political institutions. 
(2) ENHANCEMENT AND STRENGTHENING OF 
THE JUDICIAL SYSTEM AND LAW ENFORCEMENT.— 
To support, notwithstanding any other provision of 
law, Pakistan’s efforts to expand the rule of law and 
build the capacity, transparency, and trust in gov-
ernment institutions, at the national, provincial, and 
local levels, including assistance such as— 
(A) support for the rule of law and sys-
temic improvement of judicial and criminal jus-
tice institutions, including— 
(i) management of courts; 
(ii) enhanced career opportunities and 
professional training for judges, public de-
fenders, and prosecutors; and 
(iii) efforts to enhance the rule of law 
to all areas in Pakistan where the writ of 
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the government is under heightened chal-
lenge by terrorists and militants, including 
through innovations in the delivery of judi-
cial services that enhance the legitimacy of 
state institutions; 
(B) support for professionalization of the 
police, including— 
(i) training regarding use of force; 
(ii) education and training regarding 
human rights; 
(iii) training regarding evidence pres-
ervation and chain of custody; and 
(iv) training regarding community po-
licing; 
(C) support for independent law enforce-
ment agencies, such as the Intelligence Bureau 
of the Ministry of Interior, responsive to civilian 
control, including— 
(i) enhanced coordination with judicial 
processes; 
(ii) enhancement of forensics capabili-
ties; 
(iii) data collection and analyses; 
(iv) case tracking and management; 
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(v) financial intelligence functions; 
and 
(vi) maintenance of data systems to 
track terrorist of criminal activity; and 
(D) strengthening the capacity of the po-
lice and other civilian law enforcement agencies 
to provide a robust response to threats from ex-
tremists and terrorists along the frontier and 
elsewhere in Pakistan, including— 
(i) the development of an elite rapid 
reaction force which could be deployed on 
short notice to secure areas that are 
threatened by militancy; and 
(ii) facilitating improved counterter-
rorism and counterinsurgency coordination 
between local government officials, the po-
lice, paramilitary, and military leaders. 
(3) SUPPORT FOR BROAD-BASED AND SUSTAIN-
ABLE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT.—To support eco-
nomic development in Pakistan by— 
(A) promoting energy sector reform and 
development; 
(B) expanding assistance for agricultural 
and rural development, including farm-to-mar-
ket roads, systems to prevent spoilage and 
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waste, and other small-scale infrastructure im-
provements that will enhance supply and dis-
tribution networks; 
(C) increasing employment opportunities, 
including support to small and medium enter-
prises, microfinance and microenterprise activi-
ties, and in particular programs to improve the 
lives of women and girls; 
(D) preventing youth from turning to ex-
tremism and militancy, and promoting the re-
nunciation of such tactics and extremist 
ideologies, by providing economic, social, edu-
cational, and vocational opportunities and life- 
skills training to at-risk youth; and 
(E) increasing investment in infrastruc-
ture, including construction of roads, water re-
source management systems, irrigation chan-
nels, and continued development of a national 
aviation industry and aviation infrastructure. 
(4) SUPPORT TO INCREASE LOCAL CAPACITY.— 
To increase the capacity and improve the sustain-
ability of Pakistan’s national, provincial, and local 
governmental and nongovernmental institutions, in-
cluding assistance to— 
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(A) increase and improve the capacity of 
Pakistan’s national, provincial, and local gov-
ernmental institutions by— 
(i) providing technical assistance to all 
ministries to improve transparency and 
ability to respond to the needs of the peo-
ple of Pakistan; and 
(ii) promoting the implementation of 
fiscal and personnel management, includ-
ing revenue tracking and expenditure sys-
tems; and 
(B) enhance the capacity of Pakistan’s 
nongovernmental and civil society organizations 
to respond to the needs of the people of Paki-
stan by— 
(i) increasing support for local non-
governmental 
organizations 
with 
dem-
onstrated experience in delivering services 
to the people of Pakistan, particularly to 
women, children, and other vulnerable pop-
ulations in Pakistan; 
(ii) providing training and education 
to local nongovernmental and civil society 
organizations on ways to identify and im-
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prove the delivery of services to the people 
of Pakistan; and 
(iii) promoting local ownership and 
participation, including encouraging com-
munities to contribute a percentage of the 
value of United States projects or activities 
carried out under this title in the form of 
labor, in-kind materials, or other provi-
sions. 
(5) SUPPORT
FOR
PUBLIC
EDUCATION
SYS-
TEM.—To support Pakistan’s public education sys-
tem, including— 
(A) implementation of a national education 
strategy, to include both primary and secondary 
education, focused on literacy and civic edu-
cation, including— 
(i) programs to assist development of 
modern, nationwide school curriculums for 
public, private, and religious schools that 
incorporate relevant subjects, such as 
math, science, literature, and human rights 
awareness, in addition to agricultural edu-
cation and training; 
(ii) enhancement of civic education 
programs focused on political participation, 
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democratic institutions, and tolerance of 
diverse ethnic and religious groups; and 
(iii) support for the proper oversight 
of all educational institutions, including 
madrasas, as required by Pakistani law, in-
cluding registration with the Ministry of 
Education and regular monitoring of cur-
riculum by the Ministry of Education to 
ensure students in Pakistan receive a com-
prehensive education; 
(B) initiatives to enhance the access to 
education for women and girls, and to increase 
women’s literacy, with special emphasis on help-
ing girls stay in school; 
(C) funding to the Government of Pakistan 
to use to increase immediately teacher salaries 
and to recruit and train teachers and adminis-
trators, as well as develop formalized salary 
scales with merit-based pay increases; 
(D) establishment of vocational and tech-
nical programs to enhance employment opportu-
nities; 
(E) encouragement of United States and 
Pakistani public-private partnerships to in-
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crease investment in higher education and tech-
nical training opportunities; 
(F) construction and maintenance of li-
braries and public schools, including water sani-
tation, perimeter walls, and recreation areas; 
(G) provision of textbooks and other learn-
ing materials and food assistance for student 
meals; and 
(H) provision of software to educational in-
stitutions and students at the lowest possible 
cost, specifically targeting universities that spe-
cialize in information technology, and women’s 
colleges and women’s secondary schools. 
(6) SUPPORT
FOR
HUMAN
RIGHTS.—To pro-
mote respect for and compliance with internationally 
recognized human rights, including assistance such 
as— 
(A) programs to strengthen civil society or-
ganizations that promote internationally recog-
nized human rights, including religious free-
dom, freedom of expression, and freedom of as-
sociation, and that support human rights moni-
toring; 
(B) promotion of education regarding 
internationally recognized human rights; 
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(C) programs designed to end traditional 
practices and punishments that are inconsistent 
with internationally recognized human rights 
norms and protections, such as honor killings 
and other forms of cruel and unusual punish-
ments; 
(D) promotion of freedom of religion and 
religious tolerance, protection of religious mi-
norities, and promotion of freedom of expres-
sion and association, including support for re-
sponsible independent media; 
(E) promotion of nongovernmental organi-
zations that focus on the protection of women 
and girls, including women-led organizations 
and programs that support the participation of 
women in the national, provincial, and local po-
litical process, and programs to end violence 
against women, including rape; 
(F) technical, legal, and law enforcement 
assistance for the investigation of past dis-
appearances of individuals in Pakistan and the 
development of a national database of such in-
dividuals; and 
(G) programs in support and protection of 
the rights of ethnic minorities in Pakistan, in-
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cluding Baluchis, Sindhis, and Pashtuns, to 
preserve their language, culture, traditional 
areas of inhabitancy, and to fight any direct or 
indirect discrimination. 
(7) SUPPORT FOR REFUGEES AND INTERNALLY 
DISPLACED PERSONS.—It is the sense of Congress 
that— 
(A) counterinsurgency operations being 
carried out by the Government of Pakistan 
should be designed to minimize civilian casual-
ties and collateral damage to the people of 
Pakistan and to provide security for the deliv-
ery of humanitarian assistance to the affected 
civilian population; 
(B) the United States should continue to 
provide robust assistance to the people of Paki-
stan who have been displaced as a result of on-
going conflict and violence; 
(C) the United States should support 
international efforts to coordinate assistance to 
refugees and internally displaced persons in 
Pakistan, including by providing support to 
international and nongovernmental organiza-
tions for this purpose; 
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(D) the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development should 
support the development objectives of the Ref-
ugee Affected and Host Areas (RAHA) Initia-
tive in Pakistan to address livelihoods, heath, 
education, infrastructure development, and en-
vironmental restoration in identified parts of 
the country where Afghan refugees have lived; 
and 
(E) the Administrator of the United States 
Agency for International Development should 
evaluate the effectiveness of the livelihoods 
projects in the FATA in order to determine 
whether systems need to be put into place to 
improve programming in this key sector. 
(8) SUPPORT FOR HEALTHCARE EFFORTS.—To 
provide urgently needed healthcare assistance to the 
people of Pakistan, including assistance to supple-
ment the Government of Pakistan’s efforts to elimi-
nate diseases, including hepatitis, and to reduce the 
nation’s high maternal and under-five mortality 
rates, including— 
(A) support for repairing and building 
healthcare infrastructure, including purchase of 
equipment and training of health professionals, 
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to ensure adequate access to healthcare for 
Pakistan’s population, especially among its 
rural, poor, marginalized and disadvantaged 
segments; and 
(B) promotion of efforts by the Govern-
ment of Pakistan to reduce maternal mortality, 
including through the provision of maternal and 
newborn health services and development of 
community-based skilled birth attendants. 
(9) SUPPORT FOR PUBLIC DIPLOMACY.—To im-
plement a more effective public diplomacy strategy 
in Pakistan in order to ensure that the Pakistani 
public recognizes that it is in Pakistan’s own inter-
est to partner with the United States and other like- 
minded countries to combat militant extremism, as 
well as to promote a better understanding of the 
United States, including through the following: 
(A) Partnering with the Government of 
Pakistan to highlight the negative behavior of 
insurgent groups and to encourage civil society, 
respected scholars, and other leaders to speak 
out against militancy and violence. 
(B) Providing technical assistance to the 
Government of Pakistan to both disrupt and 
provide alternatives to the illegal FM radio sta-
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tions used by insurgent groups in the FATA 
and adjacent districts of the NWFP. 
(C) Expanded exchange activities under 
the Fulbright Program, the International Vis-
itor Leadership Program, the Youth Exchange 
and Study Program, and related programs ad-
ministered by the Department of State designed 
to promote mutual understanding and interfaith 
dialogue. 
(D) Expansion of sister institution pro-
grams between United States and Pakistani 
schools and universities, towns and cities, and 
other organizations in such fields as medicine 
and healthcare, business management, environ-
mental protection, information technology, and 
agriculture. 
(E) Additional scholarships to enable stu-
dents to study in the United States. 
SEC. 103. MULTILATERAL SUPPORT FOR PAKISTAN. 
To the extent that Pakistan continues to evolve to-
ward civilian control of the government and to develop and 
implement comprehensive economic reform programs, the 
President should do the following: 
(1) MULTILATERAL SUPPORT.—Take the lead 
in mobilizing international financial institutions, in 
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particular the International Monetary Fund and af-
filiated institutions in the World Bank group, to pro-
vide timely and appropriate resources to help Paki-
stan. 
(2) STABILIZATION ASSISTANCE.—In conjunc-
tion with other governments and international finan-
cial institutions (including the International Mone-
tary Fund), support the implementation of a plan of 
the Government of Pakistan to attack structural 
economic problems, address pressing social problems, 
carry out comprehensive economic reform, and re-
lieve immediate and urgent balance of payments re-
quirements in Pakistan. 
(3) CURRENCY
STABILIZATION
LOANS.—Pro-
vide leadership in supporting multilateral agree-
ments to provide government-to-government loans 
for currency stabilization in Pakistan if the loans 
can reduce inflation and thereby foster conditions 
necessary for the effective implementation of eco-
nomic reforms. 
SEC. 104. PAKISTAN DEMOCRACY AND PROSPERITY FUND. 
(a) ESTABLISHMENT
OF FUND.—There is estab-
lished in the Treasury of the United States a fund to be 
known as the ‘‘Pakistan Democracy and Prosperity Fund’’ 
(hereinafter in this section referred to as the ‘‘Fund’’), 
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authorities of Afghanistan or Pakistan, as the 
case may be, and to the entity operating the 
program described in subsection (d); 
(D) assisting, in consultation and coordina-
tion with any other appropriate authorities of 
Afghanistan or Pakistan, as the case may be, 
textile or apparel producers listed in the reg-
istry described in subparagraph (A) in meeting 
the conditions set forth in subsection (d)(2); 
and 
(E) coordinating, with the assistance of the 
entity operating the program described in sub-
section (d), a tripartite committee comprised of 
appropriate representatives of government agen-
cies, employers, and workers, as well as other 
relevant interested parties, for the purposes of 
evaluating progress in implementing the pro-
gram described in subsection (d), and con-
sulting on improving core labor standards and 
working conditions in the textile and apparel 
sector in Afghanistan or Pakistan, as the case 
may be, and on other matters of common con-
cern relating to such core labor standards and 
working conditions. 
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