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103D CONGRESS
2D SESSION
H. RES. 541
Concerning United States and South Asian relations.
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
SEPTEMBER 22, 1994
Mr. MCDERMOTT submitted the following resolution; which was referred to
the Committee on Foreign Affairs
RESOLUTION
Concerning United States and South Asian relations.
Whereas the United States Government has longstanding
policies opposing the spread of terrorism and advocating
the destruction caused by narcotics trafficking;
Whereas the United States Government has devoted tens of
billions of United States taxpayer dollars during the past
decade fighting terrorism and drugs both within our bor-
ders and throughout the world;
Whereas, in 1992, Pakistan was placed on the State Depart-
ment’s Watch List of nations suspected of supporting
terrorism;
Whereas, in 1993, the State Department dropped Pakistan
from its watch list;
Whereas former Pakistani Prime Minister Narwaz Sharif re-
cently publicly admitted that his Chief of Staff, General
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Beg, and his head of the Inter Service Intelligence (ISI)
Agency informed him while he was Prime Minister that
the Pakistani Army and ISI planned to conduct covert
acts of terrorism in other countries and fund these activi-
ties through large scale narcotics sales;
Whereas 317 Indian citizens were killed in March, 1993, in
a series of bombings of the Bombay Stock Exchange and
other sites in Bombay in one of the worst acts of terror-
ism in the twentieth century;
Whereas a leading suspect in the bombing, Yakub Memon,
has publicly implicated the ISI in the bombings by accus-
ing the ISI of providing arms, money, and explosives for
the attack, and directing Mr. Memon, his brother and
their associates on where to place the bombs and by pro-
viding Mr. Memon and his brother with transportation to
and from Pakistan and a large and lavish house in Paki-
stan for his brother and his family;
Whereas Indian Security forces in Kashmir have arrested nu-
merous foreign nationals in Kashmir who have confessed
to having been trained, funded, supported, and armed by
ISI-backed elements across the border in Pakistan;
Whereas former Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif has recently
stated publicly that the Government of Pakistan, for sev-
eral years, has possessed nuclear weapons in direct con-
tradiction to repeated assurances to the United States
Government that Pakistan does not possess and is not at-
tempting to develop nuclear weapons;
Whereas, in 1987, the United States Congress enacted and
President Reagan signed into law the Pressler Amend-
ment banning foreign aid to Pakistan until the President
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certifies that Pakistan does not possess a nuclear weap-
on; and
Whereas President Bush and President Clinton have been un-
able to certify that Pakistan does not possess a nuclear
weapon: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep-
resentatives that—
(1) the United States condemns the involve-
ment of Pakistan in acts of terrorism in other coun-
tries;
(2) the United States condemns any involve-
ment by Pakistan in the illegal manufacture, sale,
transportation, or distribution of any narcotic sub-
stance;
(3) the United States urges Pakistan to cooper-
ate with law enforcement authorities in the United
States to reduce and eliminate the growing heroin
trade in Pakistan, which currently accounts for 20
percent of all the heroin sold in the United States;
(4) the United States urges the Administration
to review the State Department decision in 1993 to
drop Pakistan from the Watch List of nations which
are suspected of supporting terrorism; and
(5) the United States reaffirms the validity and
wisdom of the Pressler Amendment prohibiting for-
eign assistance to Pakistan in light of Prime Min-
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ister Sharif’s public admission that Pakistan has
possessed nuclear weapons for several years despite
repeated assurances to the contrary to the United
States.
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