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Pak defense minister barred from leaving the country

What up with that? I don’t understand what is going on. He was planning to go to China and was told he was on the “Exit Control List” and couldn’t go.   MICHAEL GOTTSCHALK/AFP/Getty Images

By , a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy.
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Pakistani Defense Minister Chaudhry Ahmed Mukhtar and German Defense Minister Franz Josef Jung (not visible) review an honour guard during a welcoming ceremony at the Defence Ministry in Berlin on May 6, 2009 prior bilateral talks. AFP PHOTO DDP/ MICHAEL GOTTSCHALK GERMANY OUT (Photo credit should read MICHAEL GOTTSCHALK/AFP/Getty Images)

What up with that? I don’t understand what is going on. He was planning to go to China and was told he was on the “Exit Control List” and couldn’t go.  

MICHAEL GOTTSCHALK/AFP/Getty Images

Thomas E. Ricks is a former contributing editor to Foreign Policy. Twitter: @tomricks1

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