Problems taking them back. The agreement to let them remain in pakistan runs out in december 2015. The bottom line is that although were concerned about the role of some of these camps which is being played as far as the security of pakistan is concerned, we are also conscious of the fact that well not do anything that can be an area of concern for the new afghan government. So we work with them to work out a time line and a schedule for the eventual repatriation. In the meantime, how do we handle them within pakistan after the registration is over. We then promised the government to sit with them and work out a mutually agreed timetable for the repatriation of the unregistered events in the first place and discuss the eventual withdraw of the idps and the afghan refugees closer to december 2015. Okay. Finally, minister one specific question on the police. You see how to make the police do a better job. What can do you with the police per se . Theret front line of terrorism control. Well, as you rightly said it is a police if the police is able to somehow were able to in the shortest possible term carry out an exercise of capacity strengthening, i think that will do wonders. There was time, financing, training, the police in pakistan, as you know is not equipped or trained for counterterrorism. It is for normal activity. The little help and support that was available internationally that thinldned out now. So we have now engaged the military and Capacity Building of the police. And the first force of the police which passed out just recently in punjab that was entirely supported by the military. So in the short term, we are getting their support not only in terms of training but also in recruiting some personnel from the military. All people who left the army and are now willing to join the police force. It is going to be a bit of mixture of police and retired army officials. There is one last filing. There is some concern here and otherwise about International Presence in pakistan. There is this new bill to regulate ngos. One other question is asked what is the pakistani state outlook towards ingos who are doing very good work in pakistan for a number of years. And whether there is going to be a lesser space perhaps for them to operator is this bill and the current sort of structure or the effort just to bring them into the mainstream because there seems to be some concern with this new sort of ngo bill and sort of movement around it. There should be in concern on that score. The idea is to for the government to know which area particular ngo is operating. For it to be concerned for its oeb area of responsibility. And it is simply the idea is to bring about clarity in the system, no to the bring any kind of restriction on any ngo. Minister, let me thank you. Let me, before we end also invite our Vice President andrew whiler to present with you a momento momento. We wish you the very best luck. Thank you for joining us. Thank you. [ applause ] thank you for braving the cold and for joining us and for those that joined online. Also i want to take the time to thank the minister for joining us to day. There is a topic that we can talk about for quite a long time. But we have run out of time. Small memory of your visit to usip more importantly pakistans counterterrorism challenge also signed by yousef we would like to present you for your visit here. Thank you very much. Thank you. The most memorable moment of this week is hearing senatory Cory Gardener at our lunch yesterday say you need to be firm in your principles but flexible in the details. I think it really reflects like the solution like the harsh polarization were seeing across our country and a methodology that if all the senators if all the congressmen and women and all the state legislatures can adopt, we can really come together as a country and solve many of our pertinent issues. My favorite quote came from julie adam. She said remember to be humble and have a strong work ethic because the people you meet on the way up youll meet them on the way back down. I think in particular in congress itself oftentimes we have a lack of true statesmen. As much as i may disagree with him, john mccain did something impressive last year. He committed to the Veterans Affairs reform bill. In reading the Senate Torture report and maintaining how staying away from torture is essential to the character of our democracy, i think at the point where we have people who are willing to cross the aisle, who are willing to make these decisions with people who they may not often agree with thats essentially what we need to maintain the security the integrity of our nation as we go on. High School Students who generally rank academically in the top 1 of their states were in washington, d. C. , as part of the United States senate uj program. Sunday night at 8 00 eastern and pacific on cspans q a. Coming up next, highlights from last months cpac conference in washington. Youll see discussions on property broadening the conservative base and hear from Joanie Earnst and oliver north. What is an idea . Advances in science, technology transportation, even entertainme in. Entertainment. What would happen if you couldnt own your own ideas . Creativity itself would stop. The framers knew this. Thats why in article i section viii they wrote to promote the progress of science and arts and giving authors right to their writings and discoveries. As john loch said the government is morally obliged to serve people mainly by protecting life, liberty and property. But what if the government no longer protects that property . Its your idea. Your property. Protect it. You built it. But do you own it . Thats what this panel is going to discuss today. Its one of the most important questions pending before congress. Proebs pushing for massive changes to the way you use and interact with technology today. In fact as we speak and i literally mean as we speak the federal Communications Commission is voting on president obamas neutrality proposal. What is an actual property . Its the invented ideas that people have a pat enlt on. But whether an author pens a work, they own that idea. They own that technology. So now congress has work to do on president obamas changes. There is concerns about copyright review and about trade. Some say that these protections harm innovation. Others say that they are the engine that grows the economy. I have about three leading experts from the in the country today. Adam mozof, codirector of the protection of Property Rights. I have mark shultz another codirector of the center and also professor at the University Southern illinois university. And then maureen nohouse en one of the two strong conservetives at the federal trade commission. Adam is going to start off by giving us some context on this issue. Thank you. Thank you. And i will so it used to be the case if you mentioned interlekt youll property such as patents on new inventions and ideas or copy writes on creative works of art or writings very few people would have been aware of this. But because of the digital revolution of the past couple decades, the great advances in biotechnology and medicine all of there is brought to us by the patent system, copy writes and trade secrets. People become much more aware of the issues and they become to take front and center. So you hear about issues now in newspapers. You read about them on the internet. That the patents are alleged to hold up innovation. People claim that there are these creatures known as patent troll whos have patent whos sue manufacturers, copyright and Digital Content books and music and movies is alleged to have stifle free speech or hold up creative develop. And new creative art. And so on and so on. So the courts are considering wideranging limitations on patents and copy writes and other ip rights. Theyre seeking to weaken the Property Rights and make it easier for people to use other peoples created inventions other peoples created works of art and music. So as dan mentioned congress is considering legislation that will significantly weaken patents that very moment. They are considering to make changes to copyright to make more use of copyrighted works by the nonowners. And the courts, especially the Supreme Court have handed down a slew of cases, in fact the Supreme Court is deciding in particular patent cases but intellectual case mores generally at a rate that we have not seen since the late 19th century. And so its very significant. There is a lot of political and legal activity surrounding what are our rights today. Thats important to remind ourselves what are Property Rights and why these are Property Rights that served a fundamental role in the smern experience that began over 200 years ago. We happen to forget this. Many people dont remember that part of american exceptionalism part of the American Revolution wasnt just the creation of a government that represented the rights of all individuals to their life liberty and property. But it also extended into all spheres of activities including intellectual property. Thus the founders put interlekt youll property into the constitution itself authorizing congress to enact the patent laws and copyright laws to secure to inventers and authors and other creators their valuable creations. They did so under the long standing view of such great thinkers like john lock who endorsed could bey write, who encoursed inventions and recognized that these are the fruits of peoples labors their intellectual labors and in fact these come from a source that is the source of everything, our minds. And thus is rooted not even in the tangible world but actually in the new ideas that people come up with. And thus the United States did something unique that was not done by any other country at that time. We took serious the idea that interleblgt intellectual property is a property right. So other countries at that time we protect the these not as special grants of privilege but as Property Rights. And the result as we all well know and were living it to this very day was the explosive growth in the Industrial Revolution in the United States founded on amazing innovation in the mechanic anized reaper the cotton gin the telephone, the light bulb, airplanes radios, lasers and today our Computer Technology itself. And so its very important to remember that key to the United States success both its free market, its innovation economy and to the very notion of what it means to secure property in america and to secure to everyone life, liberty and property that must include the protection of peoples rights to the fruits of their labors and inventions and books that they have come up with. And as i said this is important to remember because today these very ideas are under attack. And theyre under attack not just from the left. Unfortunately, many people who are advocates for the free market and for limited government have themselves become confused about what it means to secure intellectual property to inventers and authors and other creators. And they have and thus become they have begun to think that we must roll back these rights in some way shape or form. And, therefore, we must remind them that these are important these are strong protection of these Property Rights are key to the success of americas innovation, economy, growth of our jobs to the growth of all of the Great Technology and our computers and our medical treatment that we now experience today. That even 10 or 15 or 20 years ago was pure science fiction. And, yet, is brought us to by the great innovators who rely upon our pat enlt system and copyright system and will continue to do so hopefully in the future. Thank you. When i think we should or must protect intellectual property, im reminded of something president Ronald Reagan said when i was a young conservative in the 1980s. He said freedom is right. Freedom works. It wasnt the most famous quote or he has hundreds more he will owe consequent ones, but it stuck with me. Because in those five words, freedom is right. Freedom works. It summarizes the value of our conservative principles. Our principles are right because they recognize the intrin jent value of every human life. People are endo youed by creator with rights life, liberty and Property Number human being is a means to the end of another. No human beings work should be taken or appropriated by another whether a government or another. And our principles work. They work for the same reason theyre right. They work because they recognize the intrin sick value of people. When we have individual liberty, we work harder to do to get the things we need, to support ourselves and our families. And in working harder, we innovate and create and benefit all society. And by the same principle, by the same understanding, Property Rights are essential because they are also rights. They insure thaefr individual can own the fruits of their labor. Own and enjoy them and thus secure the things they need to support themselves and their families. But also to really live fulfilling lives, to have the means to live fulfilling lives. And not just that but true freedom. Government handouts and freedom are inkpapable. Property rights give us the freedom to be truly independent. Property rights work. And interlekt youll property is the same. Intellectual property is right. Interlekt youll property works. It is right because its property like any other property. And its most important ways. When we look at the work of a farmer who is plowing a field, who creates something out of nothing, theyre much the same in these important ways as an inventor who creates a smart phone. They bring something out of nothing. And each needs and deserves to own the fruits of their labor, to support themselves and their family. To be truly economically independent. And this principle is the same whether it comes to the architect who designs a building and the carpenter who works on it. The wedding photographer who takes photos and the baker who bakes the wedding cake, the animator who draws the movie and the Movie Theater owner who sells the tickets. In each case. They need and deserve their Property Rights. They need them to support their families and themselves. They need them to be truly free. And we can see in this way that intellectual Property Rights are right. And they work and speak support freedom in important ways. They support economic independence like any other Property Rights. What we have to we all value owning a home, for example. Because of the independence it gives us. We value businesses having Property Rights. A business like hobby lobby or chick falet can close on sunday because they make their own rules because they own the property. Similarly, a filmmaker like clinlt east wood with make a movie, choose to make a movie about chris kyle american sniper. He wouldnt get the opportunity to make that movie if he had to go to a government board and ask bureaucrats to fund it. Instead, he has Property Rights and the free market gives him the opportunity to make that movie. Finally, consider the importance of intellectual Property Rights in securing a free society. All Property Rights disperse and distribute power. The more people who own property, the more freedom there is distributed through a society. And this holds true just the same for intellectual property. Copyright owners have the independence they need to choose to speak how they want and the economy opportunity to pursue the right to speak and thus, the copyright has been called by the Supreme Court the engine of free expression. Similarly, an inventor can walk their own path. Inventors often are doubted before theyre harolded. People cant believe that their inventions will work. Irwin jacobs, the company that made the mobile Telecommunications Revolution pos ib was told his invention violated the laws of physics. Well we all stand testament today using our phones that thats not true. But luckily, he didnt have to convince a board of scientists or government to fund his project. He had patents. And the patents gave him the Property Rights that secured the opportunity to build this invention that we all enjoy today. So remember interllectual Property Rights are both right and they work. Thank you. [ applause ] its a pleasure to be speaking at cpac about the fight over ip rights that is going on right now in d. C. And all over the world. On one side of the debate, we have companies and some foreign governments, those are net buyers or licensees of ip looking to make ip cheaper for them to license to use in their products. On the other side of the debate, we have companies and small inventors that on balance focus their time and energy on Idea Development and patent licensing to make money. They, of course want enforceable Property Rights to justify all the risk and effort needed to create valuable new ideas. I agree with adam and mark that its critical for america to promote strong ip rights. To begin with, our belief in individual Property Rights sets us apart from so many other people around the world. As Thomas Jefferson wisely obs