Findings

Congress finds the following: (1)On May 2, 2011, Osama Bin Laden, leader of al-Qaeda and master-mind of the 9/11 attacks that killed thousands of Americans, was killed by United States forces in Pakistan. (2)Osama Bin Laden was hidden in the Pakistani city of Abbottabad within a mile of Pakistan’s major military academy, in a conspicuous and well fortified compound that dwarfed those around it. (3)Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Admiral Mike Mullen, was quoted in Dawn, the major English-language newspaper in Pakistan, regarding United States-Pakistani relations saying: It’s fairly well known that the ISI (Inter-Services Intelligence) has a longstanding relationship with the Haqqani network … Haqqani is supporting, funding, and training fighters that are killing Americans and killing coalition partners … So that’s at the core—it’s not the only thing—but that’s at the core that I think is the most difficult part of the relationship.. (4)It was reported in The New York Times on April 28, 2011, that former Director of National Intelligence, Dennis C. Blair, said regarding United States-Pakistani relations: There has to be a major restructuring. The ISI jams the CIA all it wants and pays no penalties.. (5)It was reported in The Wall Street Journal on April 27, 2011, that on April 16, 2011, the Prime Minister of Pakistan, Yousaf Raza Gilani, traveled to Kabul, Afghanistan, and told Afghan President Hamid Karzai to strategically move Afghanistan away from the United States and its imperial designs and to ally with Pakistan’s all-weather friend, the communist People’s Republic of China. (6)It was reported in The Wall Street Journal on April 27, 2011, Pakistani officials are encouraging President Karzai not to be cooperative with the United States in reaching a mutually beneficial long-term bilateral agreement. (7)Such actions by the Government of Pakistan undermine the United States while the latter is conducting long-term strategic partnership talks with the Government of Afghanistan. (8)Pakistan has received over $18,000,000,000 in assistance over the past decade from the United States and is due to receive additional assistance from the United States. (9)Pakistan has long harbored extremist groups operating in its territory that plan and conduct terrorist attacks in India and elsewhere, including the Islamic militant group Lashkar-e-Taiba, which was responsible for the attacks on Mumbai, India, on November 26, 2008, in which the final death toll from the attack exceeded 170 victims, with hundreds more injured. (10)Pakistan has a history beginning in the 1980s of receiving assistance from China to build its nuclear weapons program and under the aegis of A.Q. Khan established and operated an illicit international nuclear proliferation network which sold nuclear technologies and designs to North Korea, Iran, and Libya, among other counties, which greatly advanced their programs to acquire nuclear weapons and gravely threatened international security. (11)While the United States has twice cut off economic and military aid to Pakistan as a result of its nuclear weapons program, in 1985 with the Pressler Amendment and in 1998 after Pakistan conducted nuclear test, each time the alleged need for Pakistani help in Afghanistan has been used as part of the argument to lift the sanctions, which allowed Pakistan to continue its dangerous nuclear proliferation. (12)Pakistan through its ISI and military has shown itself to act against the interests of the United States by supporting terrorists who kill Americans and in other ways not befitting a recipient of United States aid.