I 
115TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1449 
To require a report on the designation of Pakistan as a state sponsor 
of terrorism, and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MARCH 9, 2017 
Mr. POE of Texas (for himself and Mr. ROHRABACHER) introduced the 
following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
A BILL 
To require a report on the designation of Pakistan as a 
state sponsor of terrorism, and for other purposes. 
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa-
tives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, 
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE. 
This Act may be cited as the ‘‘Pakistan State Spon-
sor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2017’’. 
SEC. 2. REPORT ON DESIGNATION OF PAKISTAN AS A 
STATE SPONSOR OF TERRORISM. 
(a) FINDINGS.—Congress finds the following: 
(1) Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist 
attacks, al-Qaeda leaders and the Afghan Taliban 
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fled Afghanistan to Pakistan and settled in the Fed-
erally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Joint 
Task Force Guantanamo threat assessments subse-
quently revealed that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intel-
ligence (ISI) facilitated al-Qaeda’s movement of 
fighters to and from Afghanistan as well as the ter-
rorist organization’s purchase of weapons. 
(2) The Government of Pakistan, and the ISI 
in particular, provide support and a safe haven to 
groups designated as foreign terrorist organizations 
pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Na-
tionality Act (8 U.S.C. 1189) by the United States 
Government. Then Chairman of the United States 
Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen testified 
in 2011 that ‘‘the Haqqani Network . . . acts as a 
veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intel-
ligence 
agency. 
With 
ISI 
support, 
Haqqani 
operatives planned and conducted’’ various attacks 
against United States personnel and interests in Af-
ghanistan, including a 2011 attack on the United 
States Embassy in Kabul. 
(3) The founder and leader of al-Qaeda, Osama 
bin Laden, was found and killed in the Pakistani 
military town of Abbottabad in 2011. The Govern-
ment of Pakistan subsequently condemned the raid 
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that killed the terrorist leader and continues to im-
prison Dr. Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who 
played an instrumental role in identifying Osama bin 
Laden’s hiding place. 
(4) A 2012 NATO report indicated that the Af-
ghan Taliban is directly assisted by the Pakistani se-
curity services and noted that ‘‘Pakistan’s manipula-
tion of the Taliban senior leadership continues 
[unabated]’’. The report also suggested that Paki-
stan is aware of the locations of senior Taliban lead-
ers, including one who maintained a residence in the 
immediate vicinity of the ISI headquarters in 
Islamabad. 
(5) The leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah 
Akhtar Mansour, was located in southwestern Paki-
stan at the time of his death by a United States 
drone strike on May 21, 2016. Pakistan’s Balu-
chistan Province has long been a haven for the Af-
ghan Taliban, and the group’s top leadership is 
headquartered in the city of Quetta in Baluchistan 
Province. 
(6) The Department of State’s 2016 Country 
Reports on Terrorism noted that Pakistan ‘‘did not 
take substantial action against the Afghan Taliban 
or HQN (the Haqqani Network), or substantially 
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