[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1553 Introduced in House (IH)]






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.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                             April 12, 2005

Mr. Ackerman (for himself, Ms. Ros-Lehtinen, Mr. Pallone, Mr. Crowley, 
Ms. Watson, and Mr. Menendez) introduced the following bill; which was 
          referred to the Committee on International Relations

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                                 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 Representatives 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 Strategic Programme with the status of a 
        federal minister, established and operated an illegal 
        international network which sold nuclear weapons and related 
        technologies to a variety of countries.
            (2) The illegal international nuclear proliferation network 
        established by Dr. Khan provided North Korea with complete 
        uranium enrichment centrifuges and designs and a list of 
        components necessary to manufacture additional uranium 
        enrichment centrifuges.
            (3) Documents provided by the Government of Libya to the 
        Government of the United States and the International Atomic 
        Energy Agency (IAEA) indicate that the illegal international 
        nuclear proliferation 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 Pakistan acknowledged 
        that the illegal international nuclear 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 directly.

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 established and operated by the Pakistani 
        nuclear scientist, 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 international 
        nuclear proliferation network established by Dr. Khan has been 
        dismantled, Dr. Khan should give a full accounting of the 
        activities and participants of the network to the United States 
        Government.

SEC. 4. PROHIBITION ON UNITED STATES MILITARY ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN.

    (a) Prohibition.--No United States military assistance may be 
provided to Pakistan and no military equipment 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 unrestricted opportunities to 
        interview the Pakistani nuclear 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, equipment, 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 international 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 network 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 
Assistance Act of 1961 (22 U.S.C. 2375(e)(2)).
    (c) Definition.--In this section, the term ``appropriate 
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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