 Shirley Kan, of the US Congressional Research Service, challenged the Treasury's description of Abdul Haq's role, in several details, in her testimony before the House International Relations Committee's Subcommittee on International Organizations, Human Rights, and Oversight.Kan asserted that the decision to designate the East Turkestan Islamic Party as a terrorist organization was controversial within the civil service.She called the first Chinese list of terrorist organizations, published in December 2003, as "intentionally misleading or mistaken", and pointed out several errors in it.