IV 
111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 164 
Condemning Pakistan’s release of nuclear scientist Abdul Qadeer Khan from 
house arrest. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
FEBRUARY 12, 2009 
Mr. ROYCE (for himself, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, and Mr. MANZULLO) submitted 
the following resolution; which was referred to the Committee on Foreign 
Affairs 
RESOLUTION 
Condemning Pakistan’s release of nuclear scientist Abdul 
Qadeer Khan from house arrest. 
Whereas Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, former director of A.Q. 
Khan Research Laboratory in Pakistan and a founder of 
Pakistan’s nuclear weapons program, established and op-
erated an illicit international nuclear proliferation net-
work, also known as the Khan nuclear proliferation net-
work, which sold nuclear technologies and designs to an 
unknown number of countries, which greatly advanced 
their programs to acquire nuclear weapons and gravely 
threatened international security; 
Whereas the Khan nuclear proliferation network provided 
North Korea with designs for uranium enrichment cen-
trifuges; 
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Whereas the Khan nuclear proliferation network provided 
Iran with uranium enrichment centrifuges; 
Whereas the Khan nuclear proliferation network provided 
Libya with designs for a nuclear weapon, as well as for 
uranium enrichment centrifuges; 
Whereas Dr. Khan had been under house arrest since 2004 
when he publicly confessed to running the illicit nuclear 
network; 
Whereas, on February 6, 2009, the Islamabad High Court 
ordered Dr. Khan released from house arrest; 
Whereas, upon Dr. Khan’s release from house arrest, a Paki-
stan Foreign Ministry official declared Dr. Khan’s case 
a ‘‘closed chapter’’; 
Whereas the United States and the international community 
still does not know the entire extent of the activities of 
the Khan nuclear proliferation network, and the Govern-
ment of Pakistan has refused to allow the United States 
Government, the International Atomic Energy Agency, or 
other independent investigators to interview Dr. Khan di-
rectly; 
Whereas Pakistan was designated as a major non-NATO ally 
of the United States in 2004; and 
Whereas the United States has provided approximately 
$12,000,000,000 in assistance to the Government of 
Pakistan since the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks: 
Now, therefore, be it 
Resolved, That the House of Representatives— 
(1) strongly condemns the release from house 
arrest of Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, who established 
and operated an illicit international nuclear pro-
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liferation network which sold nuclear technologies 
and designs to an unknown number of countries; 
(2) declares Dr. Khan to be a continuing pro-
liferation threat; 
(3) declares that Dr. Khan should be required 
to give a full accounting of the activities and partici-
pants of the network to the United States Govern-
ment, the International Atomic Energy Agency, and 
other responsible parties; 
(4) states that the willingness and ability of the 
Government of Pakistan to carry out its non-
proliferation commitments should be a guiding ele-
ment in determining United States policy toward 
that country, including with respect to United States 
bilateral assistance; and 
(5) regards a failure by the Government of 
Pakistan to aggressively carry out its nonprolifera-
tion commitments as being incompatible with Paki-
stan’s status as a major non-NATO ally of the 
United States. 
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