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Snapshots of what’s happening in the Defense Department.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, left, meets with his Pakistani counterpart Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, second from right, at the Pentagon, Oct. 22, 2010. U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Chip Gregson, assistant secretary of defense for Asia-Pacific security affairs, joined Gates. Ahmer Shehzad, the air attache at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D. C., accompanied Mukhtar.

PENTAGON MEETING

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates, left, meets with his Pakistani counterpart Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar, second from right, at the Pentagon, Oct. 22, 2010. U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and Chip Gregson, assistant secretary of defense for Asia-Pacific security affairs, joined Gates. Ahmer Shehzad, the air attache at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D. C., accompanied Mukhtar.

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