1. Short title This Act may be cited as the Pakistan State Sponsor of Terrorism Designation Act of 2017 . 2. Report on designation of Pakistan as a state sponsor of terrorism (a) Findings Congress finds the following: (1) Following the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, al-Qaeda leaders and the Afghan Taliban fled Afghanistan to Pakistan and settled in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA). Joint Task Force Guantanamo threat assessments subsequently revealed that Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) facilitated al-Qaeda’s movement of fighters to and from Afghanistan as well as the terrorist organization’s purchase of weapons. (2) The Government of Pakistan, and the ISI in particular, provide support and a safe haven to groups designated as foreign terrorist organizations pursuant to section 219 of the Immigration and Nationality Act ( 8 U.S.C. 1189 ) by the United States Government. Then Chairman of the United States Joint Chiefs of Staff Admiral Mike Mullen testified in 2011 that the Haqqani Network … acts as a veritable arm of Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence agency. With ISI support, Haqqani operatives planned and conducted various attacks against United States personnel and interests in Afghanistan, including a 2011 attack on the United States Embassy in Kabul. (3) The founder and leader of al-Qaeda, Osama bin Laden, was found and killed in the Pakistani military town of Abbottabad in 2011. The Government of Pakistan subsequently condemned the raid that killed the terrorist leader and continues to imprison Dr. Shakil Afridi, the Pakistani doctor who played an instrumental role in identifying Osama bin Laden’s hiding place. (4) A 2012 NATO report indicated that the Afghan Taliban is directly assisted by the Pakistani security 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