Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates (right) escorts Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar (2nd from right) through an honor cordon and into the Pentagon on Oct. 22, 2010. Gates and Mukhtar will meet to discuss a broad range of issues relating to the prosecution of the ongoing war in neighboring Afghanistan. Mukhtar is accompanied by Pakistani Air Force Group Capt. Ahmer Shehzad, air attach‚ at the Pakistan Embassy in Washington, D.C.