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111TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION H. R. 2481 
To require the President to develop a comprehensive interagency strategy 
and implementation plan for long-term security and stability in Pakistan, 
and for other purposes. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
MAY 19, 2009 
Ms. ROS-LEHTINEN (for herself, Mr. MCHUGH, Mr. HOEKSTRA, Mr. LEWIS 
of California, Mr. KING of New York, Mr. BOEHNER, Mr. CANTOR, and 
Mr. PENCE) introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Com-
mittee on Foreign Affairs, and in addition to the Permanent Select Com-
mittee on Intelligence and the Committee on Armed Services, for a period 
to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consider-
ation of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee 
concerned 
A BILL 
To require the President to develop a comprehensive inter-
agency strategy and implementation plan for long-term 
security and stability in Pakistan, and for other pur-
poses. 
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 ‘‘United States-Pakistan 
Security and Stability Act’’. 
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SEC. 2. FINDINGS. 
Congress finds the following: 
(1) Congress supports the following elements 
outlined in the President’s White Paper of the Inter-
agency Policy Group’s Report on United States Pol-
icy Toward Afghanistan and Pakistan: 
(A) The core goal of the United States 
must be to disrupt, dismantle, and defeat al 
Qaeda and its affiliated networks and their safe 
havens in Pakistan. 
(B) The threat that al Qaeda poses to the 
United States and its allies in Pakistan—in-
cluding the possibility of extremists obtaining 
fissile material—is all too real. 
(C) The United States must overcome its 
trust deficit with Pakistan and demonstrate 
that it is a reliable, long-term partner. 
(2) The Government of Pakistan is facing sig-
nificant security and socio-economic challenges that 
set the conditions for greater radicalization and may 
threaten Pakistan’s viability. Such challenges include 
the following: 
(A) Al Qaeda’s and other extremist groups’ 
campaign of violent attacks throughout Paki-
stan, including the Red Mosque incident, the 
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assassination of Benazir Bhutto, and the bomb-
ing of the Marriott Hotel in Islamabad. 
(B) Pakistan’s population growth at a rate 
of approximately 2 percent a year, with nearly 
half of its 172 million residents illiterate, under 
the age of 20, and living near or below the pov-
erty line. 
(3) Security and stability to Pakistan is further 
complicated given the prevalence of ungoverned 
spaces between Pakistan and Afghanistan in which 
state control has not been fully exercised given eth-
nic and tribal affiliations. 
(4) The security and stability of Pakistan is 
vital to the national security of the United States, 
and the consequences of failure poses a grave threat 
to the security of the American people, the region, 
and United States allies. 
(5) The objectives of United States policy to-
ward Pakistan are to empower and enable Pakistan 
to— 
(A) develop into a prosperous and demo-
cratic state that is at peace with itself and with 
its neighbors; 
(B) actively confront, and deny safe haven 
to, al Qaeda, the Taliban, and other extremists; 
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(C) implement the economic, legal, and so-
cial reforms required to create an environment 
that discourages violent Islamic extremism; and 
(D) maintain robust command and control 
over its nuclear weapons technology. 
SEC. 3. COMPREHENSIVE INTERAGENCY STRATEGY AND 
IMPLEMENTATION PLAN FOR PAKISTAN. 
(a) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the 
date of the enactment of the Supplemental Appropriations 
Act of 2009, the President shall develop and transmit to 
the appropriate congressional committees a comprehensive 
interagency strategy and implementation plan for long- 
term security and stability in Pakistan which shall be com-
posed of the elements specified in subsection (b). 
(b) ELEMENTS.—The comprehensive interagency 
strategy and implementation plan required by subsection 
(a) shall contain at least the following elements: 
(1) A description of how United States assist-
ance described in section 4 will be used to achieve 
the objectives of United States policy toward Paki-
stan. 
(2) Progress toward the following: 
(A) Assisting efforts to enhance civilian 
control and a stable constitutional government 
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