cant results, in part due to a failure to seek out and 
capture high-level warlords and kingpins who control 
the flow of illicit narcotics and because sufficient 
sustainable alternatives have not been provided to 
Afghan farmers who suffer from a lack of access to 
microfinance facilities, financial services, and land 
rights and whose crops are subject to eradication. 
(4) In some cases, the misaligned eradication 
policy endorsed by the United States Government 
has led adversely-affected Afghan farmers and vil-
lagers to support insurgent groups, including the 
Taliban. 
(5) The violence and instability in Afghanistan 
is further exacerbated by the flourishing trade in 
opium and opium-related crops, which has reached 
record levels and which fuel local militias, corrupts 
the national and local governments, and provides 
funding for insurgent and terrorist groups. 
(6) The United States and the international 
community must continue to support Afghanistan 
both through increased support for its national and 
local police forces, the Afghan National Army, and 
Afghan counter-narcotics operations. 
(7) The United States and the international 
community must also continue to support the growth 
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of the Afghan economy through foreign assistance 
and other means because Afghanistan remains one 
of the poorest countries in the world and economic 
growth is impeded by the lingering remnants of 25 
years of civil war and occupation and the ongoing in-
stability since December 2001, including the growing 
illicit drug economy. 
(8) The United States and the international 
community must also continue to show a long-term 
commitment to support the promotion of democracy 
and the protection of human rights in Afghanistan, 
including increased assistance for the rule of law, 
freedom of the press, freedom of association, free-
dom of religion, and other measures of good govern-
ance. 
(9) From January 31 to February 1, 2006, the 
Government of Afghanistan and the international 
community issued the Afghanistan Compact, which 
sets forth both the international community’s com-
mitment to Afghanistan and Afghanistan’s commit-
ment to state-building and reform over the next five 
years. 
(10) The Afghanistan Compact, which supports 
the Afghan National Development Strategy, provides 
a strategy for building an effective, accountable state 
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in Afghanistan, with goals and standards set forth 
in the Afghanistan Compact for improvements in se-
curity, governance, and development, including 
measures for reducing the narcotics economy, pro-
moting regional cooperation, and making aid more 
effective. The Afghanistan Compact also established 
a mechanism to monitor Afghanistan and the inter-
national community’s adherence to the timelines, 
goals, and objectives set forth in the document. 
(11) The security of Afghanistan is closely 
intertwined with those of its regional neighbors and 
success in Afghanistan, both economic and political, 
will be dependent on security and stability in the re-
gion. 
(12) The recent closure of four refugee camps 
in Pakistan and the deportation of Afghans from 
Iran have resulted in over 200,000 Afghan refugees 
repatriating to Afghanistan who will require urgent 
humanitarian services. 
SEC. 3. DEFINITION. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—In this Act, except as otherwise 
provided, the term ‘‘appropriate congressional commit-
tees’’ means the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the 
House of Representatives and the Committee on Foreign 
Relations of the Senate. 
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(b) AMENDMENT.—Subsection (c) of section 1 of the 
Afghanistan Freedom Support Act of 2002 (22 U.S.C. 
7501 note) is amended to read as follows: 
‘‘(c) DEFINITIONS.—In this Act: 
‘‘(1) APPROPRIATE
CONGRESSIONAL
COMMIT-
TEES.—Except as otherwise provided, the term ‘ap-
propriate congressional committees’ means— 
‘‘(A) the Committee on Foreign Affairs 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
House of Representatives; and 
‘‘(B) the Committee on Foreign Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the 
Senate. 
‘‘(2) GOVERNMENT
OF
AFGHANISTAN.—The 
term ‘Government of Afghanistan’ includes— 
‘‘(A) the government of any political sub-
division of Afghanistan; and 
‘‘(B) any agency or instrumentality of the 
Government of Afghanistan. 
‘‘(3) INTERNATIONAL
SECURITY
ASSISTANCE 
FORCE OR ISAF.—The term ‘International Security 
Assistance Force’ or ‘ISAF’ means the international 
security assistance force established to assist in the 
maintenance of security in Afghanistan pursuant to 
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1386 
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