[Congressional Record Volume 163, Number 108 (Friday, June 23, 2017)]
[House]
[Pages H5131-H5134]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]
PAKISTAN IS PLAYING THE UNITED STATES
The SPEAKER pro tempore (Mr. Faso). Under the Speaker's announced
policy of January 3, 2017, the Chair recognizes the gentleman from
Texas (Mr. Poe) for 30 minutes.
Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, when our forces invaded Afghanistan in
2001, the goal was simple: remove the terrorist group, the Taliban
government that sheltered the plotters of the 9/11 attacks on America,
and destroy al-Qaida, a terrorist group. This was a NATO operation.
A little history is in order.
The United States was attacked. The member nations of NATO agreed
that this was an attack on one nation, and NATO agreed to retaliate to
the terrorist attack under article 5 of the NATO agreement. Article 5
has been talked about recently in the press.
So these 28 nations, NATO, went into Afghanistan, a haven for
terrorists who sought to attack and kill Americans. That was 16 years
ago. This is the longest war in American history, and yet it is still
going on.
Let's examine how all of this is taking place and center on one
nation, Pakistan, and their role in all of this.
The Taliban, since that attack, has waged an insurgency in
Afghanistan, a neighbor to Pakistan, and destabilized the country,
creating a perfect condition for terrorists to exploit in Afghanistan
and spread that terrorist activity to other parts of the world.
The Taliban and al-Qaida have launched many of their attacks in
Afghanistan from their neighbor, Pakistan. Recently, a Taliban sneak
attack killed more than 160 Afghan soldiers, prompting the defense
minister and the army chief of staff to resign.
The Taliban, a terrorist group, doesn't just stage attacks. They
seize territory. The Special Inspector General for Afghan
Reconstruction said, in January, that 172 Afghan districts are
controlled, influenced, and contested by the Taliban.
Al-Qaida has a long history and loyalty to the Taliban--two terrorist
groups working together. Osama bin Laden swore his allegiance to the
Taliban's leader, Mullah Omar, even before the 9/11 attack on the
United States.
When bin Laden was killed in Pakistan, Ayman al-Zawahiri renewed that
oath and cemented ties between al-Qaida and the Taliban. Wherever the
Taliban is, you will see that al-Qaida is not far behind.
Since 2010, the United States incorrectly claimed that al-Qaida had
just a little, small presence in the country, limited to only 50 or 100
fighters. Well, we know now that is absolutely incorrect.
Then, in 2015, the shocking U.S. raid in Afghanistan uncovered a
massive al-Qaida training camp for terrorists, rounding up over 150 al-
Qaida terrorist activity individuals. This was more fighters in one
raid than the U.S. claimed existed in the entire country.
By the end of last year, U.S. officials announced that 250 al-Qaida
terrorists were killed or captured in 2016.
The point here is that United States intelligence has been wrong
about the activity of terrorists in Pakistan and in Afghanistan, but we
are getting it right now.
Along with al-Qaida in Afghanistan, we have another terrorist group--
I should have brought a chart to list all of these--the Haqqani
Network.
Who are these folks?
It is another terrorist group linked to al-Qaida and the Taliban. The
Haqqani Network is responsible for more American deaths in the region
than any of the other terrorist groups that I have already mentioned.
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The Haqqani Network attacks inside Afghanistan, and they have been
directly traced back to Pakistan. All roads to terror lead to Pakistan.
In fact, in 2011, Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the U.S. Joint
Chiefs of Staff, testified to the Senate, ``the Haqqani Network acts as
a veritable arm of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence agency.''
What is that? That is the military arm of the Pakistan Government
working with terrorist groups throughout the world.
The truth is, Pakistan has ties to about every terrorist group in
Afghanistan, and we know that the Taliban terrorist group is based out
of Pakistan.
It came as no surprise that when the U.S. drone strike killed the
leader of the Taliban in 2016, guess where he was? He was in Pakistan
hiding out.
There is a laundry list of evidence of Pakistan's support for
terrorist groups, and I think a little more history is in order because
this activity by Pakistan has been going on for years and has been
below the radar. So let's just list some of the counts of the
indictment against Pakistan and their terrorist activity.
Let's go back to 1980. Pakistan actively assisted countries like
North Korea, Iran, and Libya in their efforts to build a nuclear
weapon.
Now, where are we today?
Iran, the number one state sponsor of terrorism in the world, got
some of its nuclear ability from Pakistan. North Korea, on the other
side of the globe, guess what, they are developing nuclear capability,
and we can trace some of their roots for their science back to
Pakistan.
Since 1980, Pakistan has provided a safe haven and support, as I
mentioned, for the Haqqani Network. The Haqqani Network operates many
places in the world, including Lebanon, a threat to Israel.
Since the 1980s, Pakistan has hosted multiple madrassas that
indoctrinate thousands of Pakistani young who join radical groups. That
is a nice way of saying terrorist groups.
One Pakistan madrassa, which receives millions of dollars in state
funding, has so many prominent terrorists in its alumni that it has the
name of the University of Jihad.
I will continue. Since 1990, Pakistan has supported terrorist groups
in Kashmir, like the Lashkar-e-Taiba, called the LeT, and other
terrorist groups in its proxy war with India. These groups have carried
out attacks inside India, such as the 2001 attack against the Indian
Parliament.
Since the 1990s, Pakistan has allowed those terrorist groups like the
LeT to openly fundraise in the country of Pakistan. Beginning in the
1990s, Pakistan provided training, advisers, intelligence, and material
support for the Afghan Taliban, a specific terrorist group that
operates in Afghanistan based in Pakistan.
Pakistan had forged the alliance between the al-Qaida and the Taliban
before 9/11, and Hamid Gul, the former head of Pakistan's ISI, is
called the father of the Taliban.
Pakistani nuclear scientists met with senior al-Qaida--this is a
terrorist group--leadership in 1998, to discuss the terrorist group's
desire to acquire nuclear technology.
In 1998, several Pakistani officers were killed in an al-Qaida
training camp by the United States. Well, what were they doing there?
They were training the al-Qaida in terrorist activities. This was a
retaliation by the U.S. for the Africa Embassy bombings.
In 2001, Pakistan ISI helped revive the Afghan Taliban after it was
defeated by the United States in the Northern Alliance. While Pakistan
is fighting the Pakistani Taliban, it allows the Afghan Taliban, or
what it refers to as the good Taliban, to operate freely in its
territory.
Let me try to explain this. There is the Pakistani Taliban. It
operates in Pakistan. The Pakistan Government goes after those people
because they are causing crimes in Pakistan. But there is the Afghan
Taliban that operates out of Pakistan that is supported by ISI and
works in Afghanistan to kill NATO forces, including Americans. Pakistan
says: oh, we are after terrorists. We are going after them. They are
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only going after those terrorists that operate in their country against
Pakistanis, not terrorist groups that operate in other parts of the
world against Americans.
After the U.S. invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, Osama bin Laden and
many senior al-Qaida leaders fled to Pakistan. Many of them are still
there. Pakistan facilitated arms purchases and foreign fighter flows
for al-Qaida as the war continued.
Since 2004, eight major terrorist plots against Western countries
were planned in Pakistan.
In 2008, the GAO--that is the folks who take care of our money, or at
least try to track it--found that the Pakistan Government may have
falsified claimed costs for providing support to the United States-led
military operations. What does that mean?
We give to the Pakistan Government to help their military supposedly
go after terrorists, and they give us back vouchers to say: well, this
is what we did. Well, our government went through these vouchers and
found out that Pakistan lied about this. They were asking for money for
an activity that never occurred. So they tried to cheat the American
public on these reimbursements. And there is more.
In November 2008, LeT conducted the Mumbai attack in India that
killed more than 160 people with Pakistani assistance. Remember, LeT is
a terrorist group.
In 2009, a Taliban leader, who had begun peace negotiations with the
Afghan Government to stop the killing and the war, was arrested by
Pakistan authorities for negotiating a peace talk because Pakistan did
not want and does not want peace in Afghanistan.
In 2010, Pakistani intelligence is believed to have leaked the
identity of an American CIA intelligence chief based in Pakistan. Of
course, he had to flee the country.
In 2010, Pakistan closed the NATO supply route in Afghanistan for one
week in response to NATO's helicopter strike that killed three
Pakistani soldiers.
Documents leaked in 2010 revealed direct meetings between ISI and the
Taliban to organize and orchestrate attacks on American soldiers in
Afghanistan. That was in 2010.
I will continue. The terrorist perpetrator of the 2010 attempted car
bombings in Times Square, that is in the United States, was known to
have undergone weapons training in Pakistan.
In 2011, Osama bin Laden, we all know who he was, the number one
terrorist in world history, well, he was found and killed in Abbottabad
outside of Pakistan's version of West Point. In other words, you have a
military installation, you have Osama bin Laden hiding in his big old
home there, and the Pakistanis had been hiding him out. He was found
there, Americans went and took him out, didn't tell the Pakistani
Government because they would have moved him again.
We have evidence that Pakistan supports terrorism. What happened was,
Pakistan scrambled American-made jets to go after the Americans who
took out the Taliban. Fortunately, the Americans were able to get away
and they were not attacked by the Pakistan Government.
To show how supportive Pakistan is, one of our helicopters, you may
remember, had stealth on one of its rotors. Well, it crashed there, and
they turned that evidence over to the Chinese and let them take
whatever evidence they wanted to show the stealth in that helicopter.
Mr. Speaker, I would like to ask you how much time I have left.
The SPEAKER pro tempore. The gentleman from Texas has 17 minutes
remaining in his Special Order.
Mr. POE of Texas. Mr. Speaker, thank you.
In 2011, Pakistan jailed Dr. Afridi, who helped the United States
track down Osama bin Laden, and he is still in jail.
So Pakistan claims that they are a help to the U.S. in tracking down
terrorism in the world, but they are not. The evidence shows the
difference. Whose side is Pakistan really on?
After the 2011 raid to kill Osama bin Laden, Pakistan, as I said,
invited the Chinese to inspect the wreckage on the stealth helicopter
that the U.S. forces left behind. If people are allies of the U.S.,
they don't turn over technology to China.
Once again in 2011, Pakistan ISI poisoned CIA Chief Mark Kelton
following the Osama bin Laden raid.
In 2011, Pakistan shelling killed 42 Afghanistan civilians. Pakistan
is notorious for its blasphemy laws which are used to persecute
numerous minorities, including Christians. Asia Bibi, a Pakistan
Christian mother of five, was sentenced to death for blasphemy in 2011.
Pakistan launched counterterrorism raids in 2014 into the Federally
Administered Tribal Areas, yet turned a blind eye to the Haqqani
Network and the Afghanistan Taliban operatives in the area.
In September of 2016, Pakistani terrorists attacked an Indian
military base in Kashmir, killing 17 Indian soldiers. Indian officials
say the terrorists were from a group backed by the Pakistani ISI and
were using weapons with Pakistani markings.
In 2017, Pakistani cross-border shelling forced hundreds of
Afghanistan villagers to flee their homes and further strained
relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan. Well, no kidding.
Let me give you some other evidence, Mr. Speaker, and let me make
this clear. The issue here is not the people of Pakistan. The issue is
not Americans of Pakistani descent. Our quarrel and our issue is not
with those folks. I represent a lot of Pakistani Americans. Good folks.
Hardworking individuals.
The issue is with the United States' relationship with the Government
of Pakistan that is playing the United States. Recently, before the
United Nations Security Council, H.E. Mahmoud Saikal, Ambassador,
Permanent Representative from Afghanistan spoke to the U.N. He has an
excellent speech. The speech is Afghanistan's relationship with
Pakistan.
I am not going to read his entire speech, but I do want to make a
couple of comments from his point of view about Pakistan and their
terrorist activity.
He says: ``In recent months, dozens of terrorist attacks across
Afghanistan have claimed scores of innocent lives. In January, three
simultaneous terrorist attacks in Kabul, Kandahar, and Helmand
provinces killed and maimed over 160, including six UAE diplomats. In
February, the Supreme Court, our symbol of justice, was attacked,
causing numerous fatalities. Last week, two separate attacks in the
heart of Kabul killed many civilians. Finally, just two days ago,
Afghanistan's largest hospital was attacked, leaving over 140 killed
and wounded, many of whom were doctors, nurses, and patients. The
Taliban''--terrorist group--``have claimed responsibility for most of
these attacks, but regardless of whose names are being labeled on these
attacks, our own investigations have clearly established that they were
generally plotted beyond our frontiers,'' namely, in Pakistan.
I include in the Record the entire speech of the Ambassador to the
U.N.
United Nations Security Council Debate on the Situation in Afghanistan
H.E. Mahmoud Saikal, Ambassador, Permanent Representative of the
Islamic Republic of Afghanistan to the United Nations, March 10, 2017,
New York)
Thank you, Mr. President. Let me congratulate the United
Kingdom on its leadership of the Council this month. I thank
the Secretary General, Antonio Guterres, for presenting his
first report on the situation in Afghanistan. Also, allow me
to thank the SRSG, Ambassador Tadamichi Yamamoto, and
Afghanistan's Independent Human Rights Commissioner, Dr. Sima
Samar, for their briefings.
Given the severity of the situation in my country, I would
like to dedicate my statement today to the challenging
security situation, hidden agendas, the peace process and the
ever-increasing necessity for regional and global
cooperation.
Mr. President, in recent months, dozens of terrorist
attacks across Afghanistan have claimed scores of innocent
lives. In January, three simultaneous terrorist attacks in
Kabul, Kandahar, and Helmand provinces killed and maimed over
160, including six UAE diplomats. In February, the Supreme
Court, our symbol of justice, was attacked, causing numerous
fatalities. Last week, two separate attacks in the heart of
Kabul killed many civilians. Finally, just two days ago
Afghanistan's largest hospital was attacked, leaving over 140
killed and wounded, many of whom were doctors, nurses, and
patients. The Taliban have claimed responsibility for most of
these attacks, but regardless of whose names are being
labeled on these attacks, our own investigations have clearly
established that they were generally plotted beyond our
frontiers, on the other side of the Durand Line. This, Mr.
President, is the fundamental factor which needs to be
addressed.
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The UN Security Council issued prompt statements condemning
these attacks in strongest terms, for which we are thankful.
The statements underlined--and I quote: ``the need to bring
perpetrators, organizers, financiers and sponsors of these
reprehensible acts of terrorism to justice''. It also urged
``all States, in accordance with their obligations under
international law and relevant Security Council resolutions,
to cooperate actively with the Afghan authorities in this
regard.'' This is indeed what Afghanistan has been asking for
many years. My Government and people would like to know why,
after countless terrorist atrocities and specific Security
Council statements condemning them, we are still witness to
impunity for perpetrators and orchestrators of endless
violence?
Mr. President, let me be very clear. The conflict in our
country is not homegrown, as some desperately and deceptively
try to portray. On the contrary, it is the nexus of illicit
narcotics, violent extremism, and state sponsorship of
terrorism with regional dimensions and global consequences.
Tragically, it has morphed into an undeclared war by a
neighboring state that has for many years, and still
continues to coordinate, facilitate, and orchestrate violence
through proxy forces and more than 20 terrorist networks.
These groups benefit from a full-fledged external
infrastructure to keep Afghanistan off-balance for motives
that are inconsistent with our desire to live in a peaceful
and prospering region.
In earlier statements to this Council, we have emphasized,
time and again, on Pakistani actions that sustain terrorist
activities in our country. Today, let me quote leading
Pakistani officials themselves. General Pervez Musharraf, who
led Pakistan for eight years as President, proudly commented
in a 2015 interview with The Guardian newspaper that
``Pakistan's Inter Services Intelligence (ISI) had given
birth to the Taliban to counter Indian action against
Pakistan''. Last year, Mr. Sartaj Aziz, Pakistan Prime
Minister's Adviser on Foreign Affairs, went on record to say
that Taliban leaders reside in Pakistan and that they have
influence over them. A couple of weeks ago, Mr. Ashraf
Jehangir Qazi, former ambassador of Pakistan to the US,
Russia, China, and India and UN SRSG to Iraq and Sudan, wrote
in the Herald Magazine of Pakistan: ``after the Soviet defeat
and withdrawal, we (wittingly or unwittingly) unleashed a
ruinous civil war and imposed a barbaric and medieval Taliban
upon the hapless Afghan people.'' His words are but
confirmation of the truth that ``Pakistan talks one policy,
but walks the other''.
Mr. Husain Haqqani, another former Ambassador of Pakistan
to the US and Sri Lanka, categorizes in clear terms, in a NYT
2013 article, the links between Pakistan's state apparatus
and the Taliban over time, and mentions in the context of
peace talks that ``the Taliban and their Pakistani mentors
have hardly changed their arguments or their tendency to
fudge facts''. These quotes and admissions that I just read
were not ``rhetoric from Kabul'' or ``blame game'' as often
claimed by a known member state. This was Pakistan talking!
Mr. President, against this backdrop, in February, a series
of unfortunate terrorist attacks in Pakistan killed dozens
and wounded many more innocent men, women, and children. As
is the case, Afghans always share the pain and anguish of our
Pakistani brothers and sisters. However, the Government of
Pakistan, immediately and without any regard for an
investigative process or clear facts, blamed Afghanistan for
the attacks and resorted to increased breaches of our
territorial integrity, the closing of the main border
crossings, blockading trade and transit, and harassing our
nationals traveling to or living in their country. Such
measures constitute a clear violation of principles of WTO
and the rights of land locked countries, including their
access to sea.
From January till today, we recorded at least 59 instances
of violations of Afghan territory by Pakistan military
forces, including three violations of our air space, over
1375 cross-frontier artillery shellings that caused dozens of
casualties, displacement of 450 families in the middle of
cold winter in our eastern provinces, burning of our forests,
illegal construction of infrastructure near the frontier
region, and hostile maneuvering of tanks and heavy weaponry.
Mr. POE of Texas. I will just make one more comment on the speech.
The Ambassador says: ``Pakistan talks one policy, but walks the
other.''
I will continue. The World Muhajir Congress has written a letter to
the United States Congress. Who are these folks? Well, they represent
the views and interests of the Muhajirs. They are decendents of Muslims
who migrated from India to Pakistan at the time of the partition of
India in 1947.
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They write a letter, and the title of their letter is: ``World
Muhajir Congress request U.S. Congress to cut off military aid to
Pakistan.''
They go into detail talking about the terrorist activity of the
Government of Pakistan, and not only in Pakistan, but in borders across
the world. They ``request Trump administration and the U.S. Congress to
cut off military aid to Pakistan. Pakistan army and intelligence agency
ISI is mainly using this military aid''--American military aid--``to
kill innocent Muhajirs, Baloch, and Pashtoons. The double game of
Pakistan's security establishment with U.S. administration must come to
an end, which has put lives of U.S. and NATO soldiers in danger in
Afghanistan.''
Mr. Speaker, I include in the Record the letter.
[From World Muhajir Congress, June 15, 2017]
World Muhajir Congress Request US Congress To Cut Off Military Aid to
Pakistan
World Muhajir Congress represents the views and interests
of Muhajirs--descendants of those Muslims who migrated from
India to Pakistan at the time of the Partition of India in
1947 at appropriate international forums.
Indeed, our forefathers had created Pakistan as a homeland
for Muslims in India primarily to safeguards their political
and economic interests. However, their idea of Pakistan
envisaged a secular state where other religious minorities
would be guaranteed equal rights and complete religious
freedom. The founder of Pakistan Mohammad Ali Jinnah--known
as Quaid e Azam--left no doubts about his vision for Pakistan
when he chose a number of non-Muslims in the first Cabinet
for Pakistan. In his address to the First Constituent
Assembly of Pakistan, Mr Jinnah made his views abundantly
clear when he said, ``in course of time Hindus would cease to
be Hindus and Muslims would cease to be Muslims, not in the
religious sense, because that is the personal faith of each
individual, but in the political sense as citizens of the
State.''
Unfortunately, the British Raj had left behind a huge
Indian army at the time of Partition that was mainly
comprised of Punjabi Muslims. This Punjabi Army soon took
control of every major institution in Pakistan and never let
the true democracy flourish. Protecting the interests of
Punjabis has been the primary mission of this Army since the
creation of Pakistan, even if it had to at the cost of
national interests. Denial of basic constitutional rights to
majority Bengali population and subsequent disintegration of
Pakistan's Bengali-majority East Pakistan is just one
example.
In the last few decades, Pakistan's Punjabi-dominated
security establishment has blatantly used religion, Islam, as
its major tool to perpetuate its domination over other ethnic
groups in Pakistan, Muhajirs, Balochs and Pashtoons in
particular. The Army itself has gradually become highly
radicalized and seems obsessed with the idea of dominating
the entire region. The most alarming trend in the last three
decades, however, has been the creation and blatant use of
`religious proxies' by Pakistan Army to promote its sinister
agenda of Punjabi dominance over Pakistan as well as the
region.
Jihadi terrorist outfits created by Pakistan Army have
caused havoc in the last three decades both inside and
outside Pakistan. Even though hundreds of thousands of
Pakistanis have died as a result of attacks carried out by
these ruthless proxies of Pakistan's security establishment,
the targets of these terrorist outfits have never been
confined to Pakistan and pretty much every country in the
region has suffered at the hands of these terror groups.
Whether it is the world's ``most wanted'' man Osama bin
Laden or the chief of Taliban Mullah Omar; whether it is al-
Qaeda's ideological founder Ayman al-Zawahiri or TTP Amir
Mullah Mansoor Akhtar or 9/11 mastermind Khalid Shaikh
Mohammad, they all have lived and freely operated from
Pakistan. It is not even remotely possible that such
notorious mass murderers could have lived and operated from
Pakistani soil without the overt or covert support from ISI.
In fact, thugs of every fanatic religious outfit are still
freely operating in Pakistan, particularly in Karachi, very
often under the overt protection of Paramilitary Rangers. We
have video evidence confirming that militants of banned
extremist religious outfits are allowed to freely collect
donations in Karachi to wage ``Jihad against America.''
The region as well as the world has suffered enough due to
the mindless policies and treachery of Pakistan's Punjabi-
dominated security establishment. In fact, ethnic minorities
of Pakistan have been the biggest victim of Pakistan Army and
its intelligence agencies' ruthless pro-Punjabi policies.
Over 20 thousand Muhajirs have been killed by Pakistan's
state agencies since 1992 alone. Two federal governments in
Pakistan were deposed on the charges of extrajudicial
killings of Muhajirs in Karachi but none of the culprits was
ever punished. Tens of thousands of Balochs have been killed
by Pakistan's security agencies in the country's largest
Balochistan province. Hundreds of ethnic Pashtoons too have
either been killed and injured or made homeless by Pakistan
Army in the last few years under the garb of security
operations in the country's northern areas.
Pakistan Army and ISI are actively silencing every sane and
secular voice in Pakistan and are supporting, arming and
training every jihadi terrorist outfit under the sun. In
recent days, General Janjua, the former Crops Commander of
Balochistan, now the country's security czar, has facilitated
legislation that now allows graduates of religious
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seminaries (Madrassahs) to receive Commission in Pakistan
Army. The previous Director General of ISI (now the head of
Pakistan's National Defense University) General Rizwan Akhtar
has even proposed to `incorporate militants belonging to
banned extremist religious outfits into paramilitary forces.'
The region is burning due to the highly unprofessional and
irresponsible policies and acts of Pakistan's military
establishment and ISI. The entire world is suffering. As the
British Prime Minister Mrs. Theresa May said following the
most recent terrorist attack in London ``enough is enough.''
It is about time for the world to act against this madness
and put its foot down.
World Muhajir Congress sincerely request Trump
Administration and US Congress to cut off military aid to
Pakistan. Pakistan Army and intelligence agency ISI is mainly
using this military aid to kill innocent Muhajirs, Baloch and
Pashtoons. The double game of Pakistan's security
establishment with US administration must come to an end
which has put lives of US and NATO soldiers in danger in
Afghanistan.
Mr. POE of Texas. So what does all this mean?
I have given 20 or 30 enumerated counts of an indictment against
Pakistan, alleging them of supporting terrorism in the world.
What can we do about it?
Pakistan is not an ally of the United States. But the United States,
every year, gives millions of dollars to Pakistan. Congress has even
brought this up before, has tried to cut some of that money off. It has
passed the House, but it has never passed and become law. And we
continue to give them money.
The United States does not, and should not, continue to give Pakistan
money because the money we give them goes to ISI, and that money goes
to support terrorist activity in Afghanistan that kills Americans.
Why are we doing this?
But we continue to do it, for some reason that I think is absurd.
So the first thing we need to do is cut off the aid to Pakistan. We
don't need to pay them to kill us; they will support killing Americans
on their own. Cut off the aid.
The second thing we do is to label Pakistan a state sponsor of
terrorism. That is what they are: a state sponsor of terrorism.
Congress needs to label them and make that designation so they suffer
the consequences for their terrorist mischief throughout the world.
And the third thing we do is we need to remove and revoke their major
non-NATO ally status. That is a fancy word for: because Pakistan is a
major non-NATO ally, they get certain benefits, militarily, that other
countries don't get.
Revoke that. Quit giving them military aid. Quit giving them money.
Designate them as a state sponsor of terrorism, and remove the major
non-NATO ally status against Pakistan. There needs to be consequences
for this long history, that most Americans are not aware of, where
Pakistan says one thing and, like the ambassador said, does something
else; and those consequences need to come down to get attention.
The longest war in American history continues today, and it is a war
supposedly against terrorism. But Afghanistan still is a hotbed because
of what takes place and supported from Pakistan. The Afghan Government
knows it, we know it, and the Pakistan Government knows it.
So there must be consequences. I think Pakistan is found guilty of
supporting terrorism, and there should be action by the United States
immediately to do these three things.
And that is just the way it is.
Mr. Speaker, I yield back the balance of my time.
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