[Congressional Record Volume 140, Number 145 (Friday, October 7, 1994)]
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[Congressional Record: October 7, 1994]
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               PAKISTAN'S INVOLVEMENT IN NARCO-TERRORISM

  (Mr. FINGERHUT asked and was given permission to address the House 
for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. FINGERHUT. Mr. Speaker, I rise to bring to the attention of my 
colleagues a report carried by the Washington Post of September 12, 
1994, reminding us once again of the real and present danger posed by 
the nexus between narcotics and terrorism. The Karachi datelined report 
headlined ``Heroin Plan by Top Pakistanis Alleged'' quoting Pakistan's 
former Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif saying that ``drug deals were to pay 
for covert operations'' brings to mind other reports not so long ago of 
Pakistani involvement in using the Bank of Credit and Commerce 
Internationale [BCCI] to launder drug money that was eventually 
believed to have been used in financing terrorist groups involved in 
the New York World Trade Center bombing.
  It is shocking that the report cites Pakistan's army chief and head 
of intelligence agency proposing to then Prime Minister Sharif ``a 
detailed blueprint for selling heroin to pay for the country's covert 
military operations in early 1991''. The role played by Pakistan's 
Inter Services Intelligence Agency in exporting terror to Kashmir and 
Punjab in neighboring India was sufficiently well-documented for the 
previous administration to place the country on the watch list of 
states sponsoring terrorism. Its removal from that list is justified 
neither by its past track record nor by its present performance. The 
State Department's most recent report on Global Patterns of Terrorism 
talks of credible reports in 1993 of official Pakistani support to 
Kashmiri militants who undertook attacks of terrorism in Indian-
controlled Kashmir.
  The administration cannot afford to ignore the Washington Post 
report. Mr. Speaker, a country that produces 70 tons of heroin annually 
and accounts for a significant part of the heroin consumed in the U.S. 
market is a matter of concern under any circumstances. That a part of 
the same country's intelligence establishment can conceive blueprints 
to use profits from smuggling these drugs for supporting insurgency in 
Kashmir and export of terror elsewhere is a fact that we ignore at our 
own peril.

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