This report discusses legislation related to the Pakistan Enduring Assistance and Cooperation Enhancement Act (H.R. 1886), the Afghanistan-Pakistan Security and Prosperity Enhancement Act (H.R. 1318), and the Foreign Relations Authorization Act, Fiscal Years 2010 and 2011 (H.R. 2410). It also discusses the Afghanistan and Pakistan Reconstruction Opportunity Zones Act (S. 496). The report also discusses how this legislation represents a political and symbolic importance for U.S. relationships with Afghanistan and Pakistan.

This report discusses U.S. aid to Pakistan including an overview of current developments, a discussion of aid rendered before and after 9/11, the objectives of requesting aid during FY2012, and various issues that Congress needs to consider relating to this topic.

This report discusses Pakistan's nuclear proliferation and security issues. It discusses the steps that could enable Pakistan to undertake both quantitative and qualitative improvements to its nuclear arsenal. Whether and to what extent Pakistan's current expansion of its nuclear weapons-related facilities is a response to the 2008 U.S.-India nuclear cooperation agreement is unclear.

This report describes the social and political situation in Pakistan. The report presents the important events in chronological order.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story.

Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about the former ambassador to India, Chester Bowles, asserting that south Asia is "in imminent danger" of a full-scale war with Pakistan.

Recording of the song "Ishqam jutining" at Rivera Hotel in Gilgit.

Recording of Qimat Shah and a group reciting "Bor Bor," a popular song in the Yasin dialect of Burushaski. This song is sung as a tradition of the Yasin Burushos.

Transcription, translation and linguistic (morphemic) analysis of the story "Hamale Khatun" narrated by Naseema Ali, a speaker of the Nagar dialect of Burushaski. In this popular story Hamale Khatun is invited to the house of a paranormal Queen, and stitches clothing for all of her sons and daughters at their weddings. When she returns home, Hamale Khatun comes with warnings to remain moral by the Queen, and tries to make sure her children obey them.

Transcription of Niyam reciting the story “Nosherwaane the Just” in the Yasin dialect of Burushaski. In this popular story there was a king named Qabaat, who had one muslim minister, and one hindu minister. When one of the minsters explained that two owls were discussing the injustice in Qabaat’s kingdom, he decided to become a very just king, and earned the name Nosherwaane the Just. Transcription is done in Burushaski with translations in English.

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi with a Nager Burushaski speaker Major Dr. (ret.) Abdul Hameed

Photograph of Imam Yar Baig, a Yasin Burushaski Speaker.

Photograph of Muhammad Wazir Shafi, a Yasin Burushaski speaker and research assistant to Dr. Sadaf Munshi.

Photograph of brid's eye view of Yasin valley as seen from top of the historic 'muduri'. Yasin River can be seen meandering through the valley.

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi with a Hunza Burushaski speaker Zohra Jabeen.

Photograph of Muhammad Wazir Shafi and Piar Karim, research assistants to Dr. Sadaf Munshi, working on Burushaski data in Riviera Hotel, Gilgit.

Photograph of the hanging bridge across Ghizer River, linking Gupis and Yasin regions.

Photograph of Piar Karim (left), Badshahi Khan (center) and Bulbul Murad, a Yasin Burushaski poet commonly known as "Bulbul-e-Yasin" (the Nightingale of Yasin).

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi with a Burushaski speaker Mahida Murad.

Photograph of Ghulamuddin Ghulam Hunzai, a respected veteran scholar and a well known poet (Hunza Burushaski and Persian). He has translated the Quran into Burushaski language for the first time. He is one of the few individuals who devised Perso-Arabic script based alphabets for writing and publishing Burushaski in 1940s.

Photograph of Yasin Burushaski speakers: Zafar Iqbal (right), Qadir Khan (centre) and Badaq (left).

Photograph of Abdul Hayat, known as "Nyam" (meaning 'sweet'), a Yasin Burushaski speaker and Muhammad Wazir Shafi, research assistant to Dr. Sadaf Munshi, himself a Yasin Burushaski speaker.

Photograph of two Nager Burushaski speakers, Raja Shahid Ali Khan (left) and Abbas Ali Khan.

Photograph of Dr. Sadaf Munshi (right) and Muhammad Wazir Shafi (left) with Ghulamuddin Gulam Hunzai, a veteran scholar, writer, poet, and translator in to Burushaski.