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109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 1553
To prohibit the provision of United States military assistance and the sale, 
transfer, or licensing of United States military equipment or technology 
to Pakistan. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
APRIL 12, 2005
Mr. ACKERMAN (for himself, Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN, Mr. PALLONE, Mr. CROW-
LEY, Ms. WATSON, and Mr. MENENDEZ) introduced the following bill; 
which was referred to the Committee on International Relations 
A BILL 
To prohibit the provision of United States military assistance 
and the sale, transfer, or licensing of United States 
military equipment or technology to Pakistan.
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 Proliferation 
Accountability Act of 2005’’. 
SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress makes the following findings: 
(1) Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, former director of 
the A.Q. Khan Research Laboratory in Pakistan and
Special Adviser to the Prime Minister on the Stra-
tegic Programme with the status of a federal min-
ister, established and operated an illegal inter-
national network which sold nuclear weapons and re-
lated technologies to a variety of countries. 
(2) The illegal international nuclear prolifera-
tion network established by Dr. Khan provided 
North Korea with complete uranium enrichment cen-
trifuges and designs and a list of components nec-
essary to manufacture additional uranium enrich-
ment centrifuges. 
(3) Documents provided by the Government of 
Libya to the Government of the United States and 
the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in-
dicate that the illegal international nuclear prolifera-
tion network established by Dr. Khan provided 
Libya with designs for a nuclear weapon, as well as 
for uranium enrichment centrifuges. 
(4) In March 2005, the Government of Paki-
stan acknowledged that the illegal international nu-
clear proliferation network established by Dr. Khan 
provided uranium enrichment centrifuges to Iran. 
(5) The Government of the United States still 
does not know the entire extent of the activities of 
the illegal international nuclear proliferation network
established by Dr. Khan and the Government of 
Pakistan has not provided any opportunity for the 
United States Government to interview Dr. Khan di-
rectly. 
SEC. 3. SENSE OF CONGRESS. 
It is the sense of Congress that—
(1) the Government of the United States has an 
interest in knowing the full extent of the illegal 
international nuclear proliferation network estab-
lished and operated by the Pakistani nuclear sci-
entist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, which sold nuclear 
weapons and related technologies to a variety of 
countries; and 
(2) in order to ensure that the illegal inter-
national nuclear proliferation network established by 
Dr. Khan has been dismantled, Dr. Khan should 
give a full accounting of the activities and partici-
pants of the network to the United States Govern-
ment. 
SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON UNITED STATES MILITARY AS-
SISTANCE TO PAKISTAN. 
(a) PROHIBITION.—No United States military assist-
ance may be provided to Pakistan and no military equip-
ment or technology may be sold, transferred, or licensed 
for sale to Pakistan pursuant to the authorities contained
in the Foreign Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2151 
et seq.) or any other Act unless the President first certifies 
to the appropriate congressional committees that—
(1) the Government of Pakistan has provided 
the Government of the United States with unre-
stricted opportunities to interview the Pakistani nu-
clear scientist, Dr. Abdul Qadeer Khan, regarding 
the illegal international nuclear proliferation network 
established and operated by Dr. Khan; 
(2) the Government of Pakistan has complied 
with requests for assistance from the International 
Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) regarding the illegal 
international nuclear proliferation network, including 
by providing requested documents, materials, equip-
ment, and access to individuals; and 
(3) the Government of the United States—
(A) has determined the full scope of the 
activities and participants of the illegal inter-
national nuclear proliferation network; 
(B) has determined the nature and extent 
of the illegal international nuclear proliferation 
network’s connection to al Qaeda and Osama 
bin Laden; and 
(C) in conjunction with the International 
Atomic Energy Agency, has confirmed that the
illegal international nuclear proliferation net-
work has been completely dismantled. 
(b) INAPPLICABILITY
OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS.—
The prohibition contained in subsection (a) does not apply 
to any assistance or transfer for the purposes of any of 
the provisions of law specified in subparagraphs (A) 
through (D) of section 620E(e)(2) of the Foreign Assist-
ance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2375(e)(2)). 
(c) DEFINITION.—In this section, the term ‘‘appro-
priate congressional committees’’ means—
(1) the Committee on International Relations 
and the Committee on Appropriations of the House 
of Representatives; and 
(2) the Committee on Foreign Relations and 
the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate.
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