services and noted that Pakistan’s manipulation of the Taliban senior leadership continues [unabated] . The report also suggested that Pakistan is aware of the locations of senior Taliban leaders, including one who maintained a residence in the immediate vicinity of the ISI headquarters in Islamabad. (5) The leader of the Afghan Taliban, Mullah Akhtar Mansour, was located in southwestern Pakistan at the time of his death by a United States drone strike on May 21, 2016. Pakistan’s Baluchistan Province has long been a haven for the Afghan Taliban, and the group’s top leadership is headquartered in the city of Quetta in Baluchistan Province. (6) The Department of State’s 2016 Country Reports on Terrorism noted that Pakistan did not take substantial action against the Afghan Taliban or HQN (the Haqqani Network), or substantially limit their ability to threaten United States interests in Afghanistan . The report also stated that Pakistan has not taken sufficient action against other externally-focused groups such as Laskar-e-Tayyiba (LeT) and Jaish-e-Mohammad (JeM), which continued to cooperate, train, organize, and fundraise in Pakistan . Moreover, since passage of Carl Levin and Howard P. ‘Buck’ McKeon National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2015 ( Public Law 113–291 ), the Secretary of Defense has been unable to certify that Pakistan has taken adequate action against the Haqqani Network in accordance with section 1222(f) of such Act. (7) Pakistan has not taken steps to demonstrate its commitment to prevent the Haqqani Network from using North Waziristan as a safe haven, nor has it shown progress in arresting and prosecuting Haqqani Network senior leaders and mid-level operatives. (b) Reports (1) In general Not later than 90 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the President, acting through the Secretary of State and in consultation with the heads of other appropriate Federal departments and agencies, shall submit to the appropriate congressional committees a report that determines whether—