[Congressional Record Volume 159, Number 86 (Monday, June 17, 2013)]
[Extensions of Remarks]
[Pages E885-E886]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




        NATIONAL DEFENSE AUTHORIZATION ACT FOR FISCAL YEAR 2014

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                               speech of

                         HON. DANA ROHRABACHER

                             of california

                    in the house of representatives

                        Thursday, June 13, 2013

       The House in Committee of the Whole House on the state of 
     the Union had under consideration the bill (H.R. 1960) to 
     authorize appropriations for fiscal year 2014 for military 
     activities of the Department of Defense and for military 
     construction, to prescribe military personnel strengths for 
     such fiscal year, and for other purposes:

  Mr. ROHRABACHER. Madam Chair, included in this en bloc package is an 
amendment I offered that relates to Pakistan. It adds,

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as a condition of aid to Pakistan, that Islamabad must not use the 
funding we provide to its security forces for purposes of domestic 
repression of ethnic and religious minority groups as it has in the 
past.
  The State Department's 2012 Country Report on Human Rights in 
Pakistan states, ``The most serious human rights problems were 
extrajudicial and targeted killings, forced disappearances, and 
torture, which affected thousands of citizens in nearly all parts of 
the country.'' Members of the Pakistani military as well as police are 
involved in these lethal abuses of human rights.
  Repression of minority groups is systemic. Human rights organizations 
have reported that many Sindhi and Baloch nationalists were among those 
missing. Non-Sunni religious practitioners, Christians, Ahmadis, and 
Shia Muslims, are attacked with impunity.
  There are already four conditions in the core bill and my amendment 
simply adds a fifth requirement to prevent the misuse of our aid. Thank 
you, Madam Chair, for accepting my amendment.

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