[Congressional Bills 103th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 541 Introduced in House (IH)]

103d CONGRESS
  2d Session
H. RES. 541

          Concerning United States and South Asian relations.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                           September 22, 1994

Mr. McDermott submitted the following resolution; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                               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 borders and throughout the world;
Whereas, in 1992, Pakistan was placed on the State Department'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 recently publicly admitted 
        that his Chief of Staff, General 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 activities 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 terrorism in the twentieth century;
Whereas a leading suspect in the bombing, Yakub Memon, has publicly implicated 
        the ISI in the bombings by accusing 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 providing Mr. Memon 
        and his brother with transportation to and from Pakistan and a large and 
        lavish house in Pakistan for his brother and his family;
Whereas Indian Security forces in Kashmir have arrested numerous 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 several years, has possessed nuclear 
        weapons in direct contradiction to repeated assurances to the United 
        States Government that Pakistan does not possess and is not attempting 
        to develop nuclear weapons;
Whereas, in 1987, the United States Congress enacted and President Reagan signed 
        into law the Pressler Amendment banning foreign aid to Pakistan until 
        the President certifies that Pakistan does not possess a nuclear weapon; 
        and
Whereas President Bush and President Clinton have been unable to certify that 
        Pakistan does not possess a nuclear weapon: Now, therefore, be it
    Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Representatives 
that--
            (1) the United States condemns the involvement of Pakistan 
        in acts of terrorism in other countries;
            (2) the United States condemns any involvement by Pakistan 
        in the illegal manufacture, sale, transportation, or 
        distribution of any narcotic substance;
            (3) the United States urges Pakistan to cooperate 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 foreign assistance to 
        Pakistan in light of Prime Minister 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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