Defund United States Assistance to Pakistan Act of 2011

Defund United States Assistance to Pakistan Act of 2011 - Prohibits assistance to Pakistan.

[Congressional Bills 112th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 1790 Introduced in House (IH)]

112th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 1790

                  To prohibit assistance to Pakistan.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                              May 5, 2011

 Mr. Rohrabacher introduced the following bill; which was referred to 
                    the Committee on Foreign Affairs

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                                 A BILL


 
                  To prohibit assistance 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 ``Defund United States Assistance to 
Pakistan Act of 2011''.

SEC. 2. 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.

SEC. 3. PROHIBITION ON ASSISTANCE TO PAKISTAN.

    Assistance may not be provided to Pakistan under any provision of 
law.

SEC. 4. EFFECTIVE DATE.

    This Act shall take effect on the date of the enactment of this Act 
and shall apply with respect to amounts allocated for assistance to 
Pakistan that are unobligated or unexpended on or after such date.
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