Karzai nominates new cabinet

(19 Jun 2002)
1. Carpet being laid down
2. Karzai getting out of car
3. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
4. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
5. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
6. Wide shot interior loya jirga
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"I pledge before you, those that have voted for me, that we will keep our dear religion Islam. And we want our country to have peace and prosperity. If I don't do this, and I break this pledge, then you stop in front of me. It is your responsibility to stop me going the wrong way. The media is free. Radio is free. Raise your voices against Karzai if I break my pledge to you."
8. Cutaway
9. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing names of four cabinet ministers (cutaways of loya jirga with applause)
10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
11. People raising their hands
12. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"I want to announce my deputies, the government needs deputies."
13. Side view of Karzai at podium
STORYLINE:
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, Afghan leader Hamid Karzai on Wednesday reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers for an 18-month transitional administration and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
The grand council immediately set to voting on Karzai's appointments, approving them all by show of hands.
Karzai named 14 ministers in a long-awaited speech to the 1,650 delegates on Wednesday night.
He also appointed three deputy presidents and a chief justice to the country's highest court, pending approval by the delegates.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held a top Cabinet office, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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