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style="border-bottom:none"><span class="nowrap"><b><span style="font-size:120%">Presidency of Hamid Karzai</span></b></span><br />22 December 2001 – 29 September 2014</td></tr><tr><th><div align="left"><a href="/wiki/President_of_Afghanistan" title="President of Afghanistan">President</a></div></th><td><div>Hamid Karzai</div></td></tr><tr><th><div align="left">Vice President</div></th><td><div><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style><div class="plainlist"><ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hedayat_Amin_Arsala" title="Hedayat Amin Arsala">Hedayat Amin Arsala</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Fahim" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Fahim">Mohammed Fahim</a></li><li><a href="/wiki/Nematullah_Shahrani" title="Nematullah Shahrani">Nematullah Shahrani</a></li><li><a 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Afghanistan">Human rights</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Afghan_Independent_Human_Rights_Commission" title="Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission">Human Rights Commission</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="LGBT rights in Afghanistan">LGBT rights</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Treatment_of_women_by_the_Taliban" title="Treatment of women by the Taliban">Treatment of women by the Taliban</a></li></ul></li></ul></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td class="sidebar-content"> <div class="sidebar-list mw-collapsible mw-collapsed"><div class="sidebar-list-title" style="text-align:center; background:#F5FFFA;;color: var(--color-base)"><a href="/wiki/Government_of_Afghanistan" title="Government of Afghanistan">Government</a></div><div class="sidebar-list-content mw-collapsible-content" style="padding-top:0;text-align:left;"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Supreme_Leader_of_Afghanistan" title="Supreme Leader of Afghanistan">Supreme Leader</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_heads_of_state_of_Afghanistan#Non-monarchs" title="List of heads of state of Afghanistan">list</a>) <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Hibatullah_Akhundzada" title="Hibatullah Akhundzada">Hibatullah Akhundzada</a> (<a href="/wiki/List_of_decrees_by_Hibatullah_Akhundzada" title="List of decrees by Hibatullah Akhundzada">decrees</a>)</dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Prime_Minister_of_Afghanistan" title="Prime Minister of Afghanistan">Prime Minister</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Hasan_Akhund" title="Hasan Akhund">Hasan Akhund</a> (acting)</dd></dl></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deputy_Leader_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Deputy Leader of Afghanistan">Deputy Leader</a> <dl><dd><a href="/wiki/Sirajuddin_Haqqani" title="Sirajuddin Haqqani">Sirajuddin Haqqani</a> (first)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Mullah_Yaqoob" title="Mullah Yaqoob">Mullah Yaqoob</a> (second)</dd> <dd><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Ghani_Baradar" title="Abdul Ghani Baradar">Abdul Ghani Baradar</a> (third)</dd></dl></li> 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href="/wiki/Politics_of_Afghanistan" title="Politics of Afghanistan">government of Afghanistan</a> under <a href="/wiki/List_of_Presidents_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of Presidents of Afghanistan">President</a> <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a>, who became the <a href="/wiki/Head_of_state" title="Head of state">head of state</a> of <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a> in December 2001 after <a href="/wiki/War_in_Afghanistan_(2001%E2%80%93present)" class="mw-redirect" title="War in Afghanistan (2001–present)">the Taliban government was overthrown</a>. Karzai was appointed at the <a href="/wiki/2002_Loya_Jirga" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 Loya Jirga">2002 Loya Jirga</a> as the <a href="/wiki/Acting_president" title="Acting president">Interim</a> President of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Afghan_Transitional_Administration_personnel" title="List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel">Afghan Transitional Administration</a>. After the <a href="/wiki/2004_Afghan_presidential_election" title="2004 Afghan presidential election">2004 Afghan presidential election</a>, he became the <a href="/wiki/President_of_Afghanistan" title="President of Afghanistan">President of Afghanistan</a>. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="President_of_the_transitional_government_2001–2004"><span id="President_of_the_transitional_government_2001.E2.80.932004"></span>President of the transitional government 2001–2004</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: President of the transitional government 2001–2004"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1236090951">.mw-parser-output .hatnote{font-style:italic}.mw-parser-output div.hatnote{padding-left:1.6em;margin-bottom:0.5em}.mw-parser-output .hatnote i{font-style:normal}.mw-parser-output .hatnote+link+.hatnote{margin-top:-0.5em}@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .hatnote{display:none!important}}</style><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Afghan_Transitional_Administration" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan Transitional Administration">Afghan Transitional Administration</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hamid_Karzai_became_winner_at_the_2002_Loya_Jirga.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Hamid_Karzai_became_winner_at_the_2002_Loya_Jirga.jpg/170px-Hamid_Karzai_became_winner_at_the_2002_Loya_Jirga.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="128" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Hamid_Karzai_became_winner_at_the_2002_Loya_Jirga.jpg/255px-Hamid_Karzai_became_winner_at_the_2002_Loya_Jirga.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/12/Hamid_Karzai_became_winner_at_the_2002_Loya_Jirga.jpg/340px-Hamid_Karzai_became_winner_at_the_2002_Loya_Jirga.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="450" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a> appointed as President of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Afghan_Transitional_Administration_personnel" title="List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel">Afghan Transitional Administration</a> at the July <a href="/wiki/2002_Loya_Jirga" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 Loya Jirga">2002 Loya Jirga</a> in <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan" title="Afghanistan">Afghanistan</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>In October 2001, U.S.-led forces invaded Afghanistan. About two months later, the Taliban government was overthrown.<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In December 2001, political leaders gathered in Germany to agree on new leadership structures. Under the 5 December <a href="/wiki/Bonn_Agreement_(Afghanistan)" title="Bonn Agreement (Afghanistan)">Bonn Agreement</a> they formed an interim Transitional Administration and named Karzai Chairman of a 29-member governing committee. He was sworn in as leader on 22 December. The <a href="/wiki/2002_Loya_jirga" class="mw-redirect" title="2002 Loya jirga">Loya Jirga</a> of 13 June 2002, appointed Karzai Interim holder of the new position as President of the <a href="/wiki/List_of_Afghan_Transitional_Administration_personnel" title="List of Afghan Transitional Administration personnel">Afghan Transitional Administration</a>. </p><p>Karzai re-enacted the original coronation of <a href="/wiki/Ahmad_Shah_Durrani" title="Ahmad Shah Durrani">Ahmad Shah Durrani</a> at the shrine of Sher-i-Surkh outside of Kandahar where he had leaders of various Afghan tribes, including a descendant of the religious leader that originally chose Ahmad Shah Durrani, as key players in this event.<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Further evidence that Karzai views himself fulfilling a Durrani monarch's role arise from statements furnished by close allies within his government.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Karzai tried to make peace and rebuild trust between communities in Afghanistan after years of war, by representing everyone in a <a href="/wiki/Big_tent" title="Big tent">big tent</a> government, including Islamists (many of which were former rivals), former Communists, royalists from the <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Afghanistan" title="Kingdom of Afghanistan">monarchy-era</a>, and ethnic minorities.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2004_Afghan_presidential_election">2004 Afghan presidential election</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: 2004 Afghan presidential election"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/2004_Afghan_presidential_election" title="2004 Afghan presidential election">2004 Afghan presidential election</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Dick_Cheney_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_2004.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Dick_Cheney_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_2004.jpg/170px-Dick_Cheney_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_2004.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="114" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Dick_Cheney_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_2004.jpg/255px-Dick_Cheney_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_2004.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Dick_Cheney_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_2004.jpg/340px-Dick_Cheney_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_2004.jpg 2x" data-file-width="500" data-file-height="336" /></a><figcaption>U.S. Vice President <a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Dick Cheney</a> and Hamid Karzai during a news conference on 7 December 2004.</figcaption></figure> <p>When Karzai was a candidate in the 9 October 2004, <a href="/wiki/2004_Afghan_presidential_election" title="2004 Afghan presidential election">presidential election</a>, he won 21 of the 34 <a href="/wiki/Provinces_of_Afghanistan" title="Provinces of Afghanistan">provinces</a>, defeating his 22 opponents and becoming the first democratically elected leader of Afghanistan. </p><p>Although his campaigning was limited due to fears of violence, elections passed without significant incident. Following investigation by the UN of alleged voting irregularities, the national election commission on 3 November declared Karzai winner, without runoff, with 55.4% of the vote. This represented 4.3 million of the total 8.1 million votes cast. The election took place safely in spite of a surge of insurgent activity.<sup id="cite_ref-Democracy_Is_Born_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Democracy_Is_Born-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Karzai was sworn in as President of the <a href="/wiki/Islamic_republic" title="Islamic republic">Islamic Republic</a> of Afghanistan on 7 December 2004, at a formal ceremony in Kabul. Many interpreted the ceremony as a symbolically important "new start" for the war-torn nation. Notable guests at the inauguration included the country's former King, <a href="/wiki/Mohammed_Zahir_Shah" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammed Zahir Shah">Zahir Shah</a>, three former US presidents, and U.S. Vice President <a href="/wiki/Dick_Cheney" title="Dick Cheney">Dick Cheney</a>. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="President_of_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan">President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/President_of_Afghanistan" title="President of Afghanistan">President of Afghanistan</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:GW_Bush_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_Kabul_2006-03-01.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/GW_Bush_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_Kabul_2006-03-01.jpg/170px-GW_Bush_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_Kabul_2006-03-01.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="140" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/GW_Bush_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_Kabul_2006-03-01.jpg/255px-GW_Bush_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_Kabul_2006-03-01.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/GW_Bush_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_Kabul_2006-03-01.jpg/340px-GW_Bush_and_Hamid_Karzai_in_Kabul_2006-03-01.jpg 2x" data-file-width="391" data-file-height="321" /></a><figcaption>President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and Hamid Karzai in Kabul, Afghanistan, on 1 March 2006.</figcaption></figure> <p>After winning a democratic mandate in the 2004 election and removing many of the former <a href="/wiki/United_Islamic_Front_for_the_Salvation_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="United Islamic Front for the Salvation of Afghanistan">Northern Alliance</a> warlords from his cabinet, it was thought that Karzai would pursue a more aggressively reformist path in 2005. However, Karzai proved to be more cautious than was expected. </p><p>Ever since Karzai's new administration took over in 2004, the <a href="/wiki/Economy_of_Afghanistan" title="Economy of Afghanistan">economy of Afghanistan</a> has been growing rapidly for the first time in many years. Government revenue is increasing every year, although it is still heavily dependent on foreign aid. </p><p>On 20 September 2006, Karzai told the <a href="/wiki/United_Nations_General_Assembly" title="United Nations General Assembly">United Nations General Assembly</a> that Afghanistan has become the "worst victim" of terrorism.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karzai said terrorism is "rebounding" in his country, with militants infiltrating the borders to wage attacks on civilians. He stated, "This does not have its seeds alone in Afghanistan. Military action in the country will, therefore, not deliver the shared goal of eliminating terrorism." He demanded assistance from the international community to destroy terrorist sanctuaries inside and outside Afghanistan. "You have to look beyond Afghanistan to the sources of terrorism," he told the UN General Assembly, and "destroy terrorist sanctuaries beyond" the country, dismantle the elaborate networks in the region that recruit, indoctrinate, train, finance, arm, and deploy terrorists. These activities are also robbing thousands of Afghan children of their right to education, and prevent health workers from doing their jobs in Afghanistan. In addition he promised to eliminate opium-poppy cultivation in the country, which helps fuel the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Medusa" title="Operation Medusa">ongoing insurgency</a>. He has repeatedly demanded that <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> and U.S.-led coalition forces take more care when conducting military operations in residential areas to avoid civilian casualties which undermine his government's already weak standing in parts of the country.<sup id="cite_ref-southcoast_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-southcoast-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Secretary_Rice_With_Afghan_President_Hamid_Karzai.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Secretary_Rice_With_Afghan_President_Hamid_Karzai.jpg/170px-Secretary_Rice_With_Afghan_President_Hamid_Karzai.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="115" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Secretary_Rice_With_Afghan_President_Hamid_Karzai.jpg/255px-Secretary_Rice_With_Afghan_President_Hamid_Karzai.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3b/Secretary_Rice_With_Afghan_President_Hamid_Karzai.jpg/340px-Secretary_Rice_With_Afghan_President_Hamid_Karzai.jpg 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="406" /></a><figcaption>Karzai with U.S. Secretary of State <a href="/wiki/Condoleezza_Rice" title="Condoleezza Rice">Condoleezza Rice</a> in June 2006.</figcaption></figure> <p>During the Karzai administration, public discontent grew about corruption and the civilian casualties in the fight against the <a href="/wiki/Taliban_insurgency" title="Taliban insurgency">Taliban insurgency</a>. In May 2006, riots broke out in Kabul, when after a fatal traffic accident in the town involving a US military convoy security forces opened fire on protesters. During the rush, a truck went out of control and crashed into a dozen vehicles in Kabul's northern outskirts, killing at least one person and injuring six. Angry Afghans then threw stones, smashing the windows of the convoy vehicles. Afghan police also opened fire when they came to the assistance of the US troops. Rioters set two police cars alight. At least seven civilians were killed during the protest and 40 wounded. Thousands of protesters marched through the capital shouting slogans against Karzai and the US. By early afternoon, up to 2,000 protesters had gathered in central Kabul, some marching on parliament and some on the presidential palace. Several hundred more congregated at an intersection near the US embassy. A few dozen people forced their way past a police cordon guarding the road to the US embassy and threw stones at vehicles carrying foreigners into the compound, prompting the occupants to fire into the air before turning back. The unrest left at least seven people dead and 40 injured.<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In a video broadcast on 24 September 2006, Karzai stated that if the money wasted on the <a href="/wiki/Iraq_War" title="Iraq War">Iraq War</a> was actually spent on rebuilding Afghanistan, his country would "be in heaven in less than one year".<sup id="cite_ref-msnbc_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-msnbc-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In May 2007, after as many as 51 <a href="/wiki/Demographics_of_Afghanistan" title="Demographics of Afghanistan">Afghan</a> civilians were killed in a bombing, Karzai asserted that his government "can no longer accept" casualties caused by the US and <a href="/wiki/NATO" title="NATO">NATO</a> operations.<sup id="cite_ref-washingtonpost_May_3_2007_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-washingtonpost_May_3_2007-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Assassination_attempts">Assassination attempts</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Assassination attempts"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Assassination_attempts_on_Hamid_Karzai" title="Assassination attempts on Hamid Karzai">Assassination attempts on Hamid Karzai</a></div> <ul><li>5 September 2002: An assassination attempt was made on Hamid Karzai in Kandahar City. A gunman wearing the uniform of the new <a href="/wiki/Afghan_National_Army" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan National Army">Afghan National Army</a> opened fire, wounding <a href="/wiki/Gul_Agha_Sherzai" title="Gul Agha Sherzai">Gul Agha Sherzai</a> (former governor of Kandahar) and an American Special Operations officer. One of the President's bodyguards, a bystander who knocked down the gunman, and the gunman himself were killed when Karzai's American bodyguards returned fire. Recently, some pictures of the <a href="/wiki/United_States_Naval_Special_Warfare_Development_Group" class="mw-redirect" title="United States Naval Special Warfare Development Group">US Navy's DEVGRU</a> responding to the attempt have surfaced. Allegedly, one of their members was wounded.<sup class="noprint Inline-Template Template-Fact" style="white-space:nowrap;">[<i><a href="/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed" title="Wikipedia:Citation needed"><span title="This claim needs references to reliable sources. (July 2009)">citation needed</span></a></i>]</sup></li> <li>16 September 2004: An assassination was attempted on Karzai when a rocket missed the <a href="/wiki/Helicopter" title="Helicopter">helicopter</a> he was flying in while en route to <a href="/wiki/Gardez" title="Gardez">Gardez</a>.</li> <li>10 June 2007: The Taliban attempted to assassinate Karzai in <a href="/wiki/Ghazni" title="Ghazni">Ghazni</a> where Karzai was giving a speech to elders. The Taliban fired approximately 12 rockets, some of which landed 220 yards (200 m) away from the crowd. Karzai was not hurt in the incident and was transported away from the location after finishing his speech.<sup id="cite_ref-iht-2007-06-11_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-iht-2007-06-11-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-timesonline_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-timesonline-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-bbc_Karzai_unhurt_15-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-bbc_Karzai_unhurt-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li> <li>27 April 2008: Insurgents, reportedly from the <a href="/wiki/Haqqani_network" title="Haqqani network">Haqqani network</a>, used <a href="/wiki/Automatic_weapons" class="mw-redirect" title="Automatic weapons">automatic weapons</a> and <a href="/wiki/Rocket-propelled_grenade" title="Rocket-propelled grenade">rocket-propelled grenades</a> to attack a military parade that Karzai was attending in <a href="/wiki/Kabul" title="Kabul">Kabul</a>. Karzai was safe, but at least three people were killed, including a parliamentarian, a ten-year-old girl, and a minority leader, and ten injured.<sup id="cite_ref-16" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-smh-attempt-on-karzais_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-smh-attempt-on-karzais-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-guardian_Karzai_survives_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-guardian_Karzai_survives-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Others attending the event included government ministers, former warlords, diplomats and the military top brass, all of whom had gathered to mark the 16th anniversary of the fall of the Afghan communist government to the mujahideen.<sup id="cite_ref-MSNBC_Afghan_president_survives_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-MSNBC_Afghan_president_survives-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Responding to the attack during the ceremony, the United Nations said the attackers "have shown their utter disrespect for the history and people of Afghanistan."<sup id="cite_ref-google_Afghan_president_escapes_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google_Afghan_president_escapes-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Taliban spokesman <a href="/wiki/Zabiullah_Mujahid" class="mw-redirect" title="Zabiullah Mujahid">Zabiullah Mujahid</a> claimed responsibility for the attack, stating, "We fired rockets at the scene of the celebration." He went on to say there were 6 Taliban at the scene and that 3 were killed. "Our aim was not to directly hit someone," Mujahed said when asked if the intention was to kill Karzai. "We just wanted to show to the world that we can attack anywhere we want to."<sup id="cite_ref-google_Afghan_president_escapes_20-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-google_Afghan_president_escapes-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Foreign_relations">Foreign relations</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: Foreign relations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Foreign_relations_of_Afghanistan" title="Foreign relations of Afghanistan">Foreign relations of Afghanistan</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hamid_Karzai_with_George_and_Laura_Bush_at_Camp_David.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Hamid_Karzai_with_George_and_Laura_Bush_at_Camp_David.jpg/220px-Hamid_Karzai_with_George_and_Laura_Bush_at_Camp_David.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="150" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Hamid_Karzai_with_George_and_Laura_Bush_at_Camp_David.jpg/330px-Hamid_Karzai_with_George_and_Laura_Bush_at_Camp_David.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/92/Hamid_Karzai_with_George_and_Laura_Bush_at_Camp_David.jpg/440px-Hamid_Karzai_with_George_and_Laura_Bush_at_Camp_David.jpg 2x" data-file-width="514" data-file-height="351" /></a><figcaption>Karzai with former US President <a href="/wiki/George_W._Bush" title="George W. Bush">George W. Bush</a> and wife <a href="/wiki/Laura_Bush" title="Laura Bush">Laura Bush</a> at <a href="/wiki/Camp_David" title="Camp David">Camp David</a> on 5 August 2007.</figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Barack_Obama,_Hamid_Karzai_%26_Asif_Ali_Zardari_in_trilateral_meeting_5-6-09_3.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Barack_Obama%2C_Hamid_Karzai_%26_Asif_Ali_Zardari_in_trilateral_meeting_5-6-09_3.jpg/220px-Barack_Obama%2C_Hamid_Karzai_%26_Asif_Ali_Zardari_in_trilateral_meeting_5-6-09_3.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Barack_Obama%2C_Hamid_Karzai_%26_Asif_Ali_Zardari_in_trilateral_meeting_5-6-09_3.jpg/330px-Barack_Obama%2C_Hamid_Karzai_%26_Asif_Ali_Zardari_in_trilateral_meeting_5-6-09_3.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/13/Barack_Obama%2C_Hamid_Karzai_%26_Asif_Ali_Zardari_in_trilateral_meeting_5-6-09_3.jpg/440px-Barack_Obama%2C_Hamid_Karzai_%26_Asif_Ali_Zardari_in_trilateral_meeting_5-6-09_3.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3500" data-file-height="2333" /></a><figcaption>Karzai with US President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> and Pakistani President <a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Asif Ali Zardari</a> during a US-Afghan-Pakistan Trilateral meeting at the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> in Washington, D.C.</figcaption></figure> <p>Karzai's <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan_%E2%80%93_United_States_relations" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghanistan – United States relations">relations with the United States</a> were the strongest, because the U.S. was the leading nation helping to rebuild Afghanistan. The United States helped put him in office in late 2001 to lead his nation. Karzai's relations with Pakistan were also strong, especially with Pakistan's <a href="/wiki/Awami_National_Party" title="Awami National Party">Awami National Party</a> (ANP). In December 2007, Karzai and his delegates travelled to <a href="/wiki/Islamabad" title="Islamabad">Islamabad</a>, Pakistan, for a usual meeting with <a href="/wiki/Pervez_Musharraf" title="Pervez Musharraf">Pervez Musharraf</a> on trade ties and intelligence sharing between the two Islamic states.<sup id="cite_ref-21" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karzai also met and had a 45-minute talk with <a href="/wiki/Benazir_Bhutto" title="Benazir Bhutto">Benazir Bhutto</a> on the morning of 27 December, hours before her trip to <a href="/wiki/Liaquat_National_Bagh" class="mw-redirect" title="Liaquat National Bagh">Liaquat National Bagh</a>, where she was assassinated after her speech.<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Bhutto's death, Karzai called her his sister and a brave woman who had a clear vision "for her own country, for Afghanistan, and for the region – a vision of democracy, prosperity, and peace."<sup id="cite_ref-23" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In September 2008, Karzai was invited on a special visit to witness the swearing in ceremony of <a href="/wiki/Asif_Ali_Zardari" title="Asif Ali Zardari">Asif Ali Zardari</a>, who became the new <a href="/wiki/President_of_Pakistan" title="President of Pakistan">President of Pakistan</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-24" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan_relations" title="Afghanistan–Pakistan relations">Relations between Afghanistan and Pakistan</a> have improved since <a href="/wiki/Pakistan_Peoples_Party" class="mw-redirect" title="Pakistan Peoples Party">PPP</a> members Zardari and <a href="/wiki/Yousaf_Raza_Gillani" class="mw-redirect" title="Yousaf Raza Gillani">Yousaf Raza Gillani</a> took office. The two nations often make contacts with one another concerning the war on terrorism and trade. Pakistan even allowed NATO forces stationed in Afghanistan to launch attacks on illegal militant groups in Pakistan. This was something strongly opposed by the previous government of Pakistan. The two states finally signed into law the long-awaited <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan%E2%80%93Pakistan_Transit_Trade_Agreement" title="Afghanistan–Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement">Afghanistan–Pakistan Transit Trade Agreement</a> in 2011, which among other things allow shipment truck to travel from one state to the other.<sup id="cite_ref-25" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-26" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Although the U.S. and others often charge that <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a> is meddling in Afghanistan's affairs, Karzai stated that <a href="/wiki/Afghanistan%E2%80%93Iran_relations" title="Afghanistan–Iran relations">Iran is a friend</a> despite Iranian-made weapons being found in his country.<sup id="cite_ref-27" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <blockquote><p>We did interdict a shipment, without question the Revolutionary Guard's core Quds Force, through a known Taliban facilitator. Three of the individuals were killed... 48 122 millimetre rockets were intercepted with their various components... Iranians certainly view as making life more difficult for us if Afghanistan is unstable. We don't have that kind of relationship with the Iranians. That's why I am particularly troubled by the interception of weapons coming from Iran. But we know that it's more than weapons; it's money; it's also according to some reports, training at Iranian camps as well.<sup id="cite_ref-28" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> – <a href="/wiki/General_(United_States)" title="General (United States)">General</a> <a href="/wiki/David_Petraeus" title="David Petraeus">David Petraeus</a>, Commander of US-NATO forces in Afghanistan, 16 March 2011</p></blockquote> <p>In 2007, Karzai said that Iran, so far, has been a helper in the reconstruction process.<sup id="cite_ref-news.com-at_odds_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news.com-at_odds-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 5 August 2007, Karzai was invited to <a href="/wiki/Camp_David" title="Camp David">Camp David</a> in <a href="/wiki/Maryland,_USA" class="mw-redirect" title="Maryland, USA">Maryland, USA</a>, for a special meeting with U.S. President George W. Bush. In October 2007, Karzai again rejected Western accusations against Iran, stating, "We have resisted the negative propaganda launched by foreign states against the Islamic Republic, and we stress that aliens' propaganda should not leave a negative impact on the consolidated ties between the two great nations of Iran and Afghanistan."<sup id="cite_ref-farsnews_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-farsnews-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karzai added, "The two Iranian and Afghan nations are close to each other due to their bonds and commonalities, they belong to the same house, and they will live alongside each other for good."<sup id="cite_ref-IRNA_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-IRNA-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, just a year prior Karzai warned that, "Iran, Pakistan, and others are not fooling anyone." </p> <blockquote><p>If they don't stop, the consequences will be ... that the region will suffer with us equally. In the past we have suffered alone; this time everybody will suffer with us.... Any effort to divide Afghanistan ethnically or weaken it will create the same thing in the neighboring countries. All the countries in the neighborhood have the same ethnic groups that we have, so they should know that it is a different ball game this time.<sup id="cite_ref-32" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> --Hamid Karzai, 17 February 2006</p></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Obama_and_Karzai_at_2010_NATO_summit.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Obama_and_Karzai_at_2010_NATO_summit.jpg/220px-Obama_and_Karzai_at_2010_NATO_summit.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Obama_and_Karzai_at_2010_NATO_summit.jpg/330px-Obama_and_Karzai_at_2010_NATO_summit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/11/Obama_and_Karzai_at_2010_NATO_summit.jpg/440px-Obama_and_Karzai_at_2010_NATO_summit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4096" data-file-height="2731" /></a><figcaption>President Barack Obama and Karzai at a meeting at the NATO Summit in November 2010.</figcaption></figure> <p>Some international criticism has centered around the government of Karzai in early 2009 for failing to secure the country from Taliban attacks, systemic governmental corruption, and most recently, widespread claims of electoral fraud in the <a href="/wiki/2009_Afghan_presidential_election" title="2009 Afghan presidential election">2009 Afghan presidential election</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-news.yahoo.com_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-news.yahoo.com-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-in.reuters.com_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-in.reuters.com-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karzai staunchly defended the election balloting, stating that some statements criticizing the balloting and vote count were "totally fabricated." He told the media that, "There were instances of fraud, no doubt... There were irregularities... But the election as a whole was good and free and democratic." He further went on to say that, "Afghanistan has its separate problems and we have to handle them as Afghanistan finds it feasible... This country was completely destroyed... Today, we are talking about fighting corruption in Afghanistan, improved legal standards... You see the glass half empty or half full. I see it as half full. Others see it as half empty."<sup id="cite_ref-35" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In June 2010, Karzai travelled to Japan for a five-day visit where the two nations discussed a new aid provided by the hosting nation and the untapped mineral resources recently announced. Karzai invited Japanese companies such as <a href="/wiki/Mitsubishi" title="Mitsubishi">Mitsubishi</a> and others to invest in Afghan mining projects.<sup id="cite_ref-36" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> He told Japanese officials that Japan would be given priority in the bid to explore its resources. He stated, "morally, Afghanistan should give access as a priority to those countries that have helped Afghanistan massively in the past few years."<sup id="cite_ref-37" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> While in Japan, Karzai also made his first visit to <a href="/wiki/Hiroshima" title="Hiroshima">Hiroshima</a> to pray for the atomic bomb victims.<sup id="cite_ref-38" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Japan has provided billions of dollars in aid to Afghanistan since the beginning of 2002. In October 2010, Karzai acknowledged that the <a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Iran" title="Politics of Iran">Government of Iran</a> has been providing millions of dollars directly to his office.<sup id="cite_ref-39" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-40" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-41" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="2009_re-election_campaign">2009 re-election campaign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: 2009 re-election campaign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/2009_Afghan_presidential_election" title="2009 Afghan presidential election">2009 Afghan presidential election</a></div> <p>In the second presidential election, held on 20 August 2009, Karzai was announced to have received just over 50% of the votes. However the election was characterized by lack of security, low <a href="/wiki/Voter_turnout" title="Voter turnout">voter turnout</a> and widespread <a href="/wiki/Ballot_stuffing" class="mw-redirect" title="Ballot stuffing">ballot stuffing</a>, intimidation, and other <a href="/wiki/Electoral_fraud" title="Electoral fraud">electoral fraud</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Afghan_commission_orders_first_ballots_invalidated_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Afghan_commission_orders_first_ballots_invalidated-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Two months later, under heavy U.S. and ally pressure, Karzai accepted calls for a <a href="/wiki/2009_Afghan_presidential_election#November_7_run-off_election" title="2009 Afghan presidential election">second round run-off vote</a>, which was announced for 7 November 2009.<sup id="cite_ref-Karzai_Agrees_to_7_Nov._Runoff_in_Afghanistan_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Karzai_Agrees_to_7_Nov._Runoff_in_Afghanistan-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Hamid_Karzai_agrees_to_run-off_amid_fears_of_more_violence_and_fraud_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hamid_Karzai_agrees_to_run-off_amid_fears_of_more_violence_and_fraud-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 2 November 2009 election officials announced the cancellation of the <a href="/wiki/Two-round_system" title="Two-round system">run-off race</a> and declared Karzai the winner due to the withdrawal of <a href="/wiki/Abdullah_Abdullah" title="Abdullah Abdullah">Abdullah Abdullah</a>, Karzai's run-off opponent, from the process.<sup id="cite_ref-Karzai_Gets_New_Term_as_Afghan_Runoff_Is_Scrapped_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Karzai_Gets_New_Term_as_Afghan_Runoff_Is_Scrapped-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="New_cabinet_in_2010">New cabinet in 2010</h3><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: New cabinet in 2010"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">See also: <a href="/wiki/Afghan_Cabinet_of_Ministers" class="mw-redirect" title="Afghan Cabinet of Ministers">Afghan Cabinet of Ministers</a></div> <p>In November 2009 Afghanistan's attorney-general revealed that 15 current and former cabinet ministers are under investigation for alleged corruption. After the fraud-plagued election, and with these allegations Karzai desperately needed to restore his legitimacy at home and abroad. Karzai's inauguration on 19 November 2009 was an austere event, without overt celebrations.<sup id="cite_ref-46" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> During his inauguration speech, he pledged to <i>"end the culture of impunity and violation of law and bring to justice those involved in spreading corruption and abuse"</i> and make it <i>"obligatory for senior government officials to identify the sources of their assets and to declare their properties in a transparent manner"</i>. Western officials publicly said his lineup of minister candidates would be a first vital test to show whether he was serious about combating corruption, which undermined his government's credibility and fed the Taliban insurgency.<sup id="cite_ref-47" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Obama administration urged Karzai to exclude ineffective or corrupt officials, while powerful Afghans who helped deliver his re-election were demanding positions, including the <a href="/wiki/Uzbeks" title="Uzbeks">Uzbek</a> <a href="/wiki/Warlord" title="Warlord">warlord</a>, <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rashid_Dostum" title="Abdul Rashid Dostum">Abdul Rashid Dostum</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-48" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-49" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karzai was expected to retain the heads of high-profile ministries including Defense and Interior, who were regarded in Washington as experienced professionals. In addition to that the finance, intelligence and education ministers were also to remain in office. All of them were given a U.S. approval by Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, when she attended Karzai's inauguration in November 2009. Analysts said that Karzai also made promises to the former warlords and tribal leaders who backed his campaign and expected government positions in return. The governor of Nangahar, <a href="/wiki/Gul_Agha_Sherzai" title="Gul Agha Sherzai">Gul Agha Sherzai</a> would have been seduced to become a supporter in his re-election by the promise of an influential position: he could become the new mayor of Kabul. </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="First_list_of_candidates">First list of candidates</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: First list of candidates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Karzai_and_Wardak_in_2011.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Karzai_and_Wardak_in_2011.jpg/220px-Karzai_and_Wardak_in_2011.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Karzai_and_Wardak_in_2011.jpg/330px-Karzai_and_Wardak_in_2011.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/58/Karzai_and_Wardak_in_2011.jpg/440px-Karzai_and_Wardak_in_2011.jpg 2x" data-file-width="4288" data-file-height="2848" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/President_of_Afghanistan" title="President of Afghanistan">Afghan President</a> <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a> and <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahim_Wardak" title="Abdul Rahim Wardak">Abdul Rahim Wardak</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Ministry_of_Defense_(Afghanistan)" title="Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan)">Defense Minister of Afghanistan</a>.</figcaption></figure> <p>The new names on the cabinet list included several relatively unknown figures in less influential jobs, and one parliament member said some were associates of some of the power brokers who supported Karzai's re-election. No senior positions would be given to supporters of opposition leader and rival Abdullah Abdullah. It is alleged that Karzai planned to keep the disputed Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Rangin_Dadfar_Spanta" title="Rangin Dadfar Spanta">Spanta</a> until the <a href="/wiki/International_Afghanistan_Conference_in_London_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="International Afghanistan Conference in London 2010">International Afghanistan Conference in London</a> on 28 January 2010.<sup id="cite_ref-50" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-51" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-52" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-53" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-54" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-55" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Shortly before Karzai presented his list with nominees, the Wolesi Jirga, the lower house of the Afghan parliament, after three days of debating, decided against giving trust vote to ministers with dual citizenship.<sup id="cite_ref-56" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When Karzai finally presented his list of 24 cabinet nominees to the Afghan parliament on 19 December,<sup id="cite_ref-57" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> since according to the <a href="/wiki/Constitution_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="Constitution of Afghanistan">Afghan Constitution</a> each nominee of ministerial appointments has to win a vote of confidence from the Lower House, it retained some leaders supported by the West, but also several viewed as incompetent and even two that had been accused of involvement in the fraud that tainted the election. In August 2009 Karzai replaced Muhammad Ibrahim Adel, the minister of mines, who was being investigated for allegedly taking more than $20 million in bribes to help a Chinese firm win a lucrative contract.<sup id="cite_ref-58" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karzai also replaced Sadiq Chakari, the religious affairs minister who was accused in taking part in a kickback scam involving Afghan <a href="/wiki/Hadj" class="mw-redirect" title="Hadj">pilgrims</a> to <a href="/wiki/Mecca" title="Mecca">Mecca</a>. </p><p>According to political analysts, the list was "not encouraging", but it reflected <a href="/wiki/Realpolitik" title="Realpolitik">realpolitik</a>. Slightly more than half were ministers who would stay in their current positions or who had served previously in Karzai's government. At least one known former warlord, <a href="/wiki/Ismail_Khan" title="Ismail Khan">Ismail Khan</a>, was nominated to serve again as the minister of electricity and water.<sup id="cite_ref-59" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-60" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-61" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Karzai asked the parliament to create a new <i>Ministry for Martyr and Disabled Affairs</i>. At a news conference with the Belgian prime minister <a href="/wiki/Yves_Leterme" title="Yves Leterme">Leterme</a> he also announced that he planned to create a <i>ministry to fight illiteracy</i>, and that he intended to nominate a woman to head it. Female politicians would also be appointed to preside several independent commissions and deputy minister's posts.<sup id="cite_ref-62" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of the Afghan parliament voted on the candidates in two sessions. The sessions were attended by 232 out of the 239 MPs. According to the law 50+1 (117) votes were necessary for acceptance. </p><p>On 2 January 2010, a crisis emerged, when the count of the votes made clear that the parliament rejected two-thirds of the nominated persons.<sup id="cite_ref-63" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-64" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the 24 nominees introduced to parliament, only seven were accepted.<sup id="cite_ref-65" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-66" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-67" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-68" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The rejected nominees could not be put forward again and Afghanistan could remain without a complete government until parliament returns from a recess in seven weeks' time<sup id="cite_ref-69" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Afghan parliament would begin a 45-day winter vacation from 5 January). On 4 January, Karzai requested the parliament to delay its winter recess, so members could consider new nominees.<sup id="cite_ref-70" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-71" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-72" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The parliament decided to take a short break of three days and demanded Karzai to come up with a list of names, including a candidate for the post of Foreign Affairs.<sup id="cite_ref-73" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable sortable" width="80%"> <caption>President <a href="/wiki/Hamid_Karzai" title="Hamid Karzai">Hamid Karzai</a>'s nominations for his second cabinet<sup id="cite_ref-74" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Reu_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reu-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-76" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <br /> First nominations were on 19 December 2009 and the second ones on 9 January 2010 </caption> <tbody><tr> <th rowspan="2"> </th> <th rowspan="2">Ministry </th> <th rowspan="2">Name </th> <th rowspan="2">Incumbent / New </th> <th colspan="6">Parliamentary vote of confidence </th></tr> <tr> <th>result </th> <th>Yes </th> <th>No </th> <th>Abstain </th> <th>invalid </th> <th>Disappeared </th></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">1</td> <td rowspan="2">Foreign Affairs</td> <td><i>not nominated</i></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Zalmai_Rassoul" title="Zalmai Rassoul">Zalmai Rassoul</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>2</td> <td>Defense</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahim_Wardak" title="Abdul Rahim Wardak">Abdul Rahim Wardak</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td>124</td> <td>100</td> <td>8</td> <td>-</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td>3</td> <td>Interior</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Hanif_Atmar" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Hanif Atmar">Mohammad Hanif Atmar</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td>147</td> <td>77</td> <td>-</td> <td>rest</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">4</td> <td rowspan="2">Economy</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Anwar_ul-Haq_Ahady" title="Anwar ul-Haq Ahady">Anwar ul-Haq Ahady</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>91</td> <td>103</td> <td>7</td> <td>3</td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Hadi_Arghandiwal" title="Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal">Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>5</td> <td>Finance</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Omar_Zakhilwal" title="Omar Zakhilwal">Omar Zakhilwal</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td>141</td> <td>84</td> <td>6</td> <td>-</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">6</td> <td rowspan="2">Public Health</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Amin_Fatemi" title="Mohammad Amin Fatemi">Mohammad Amin Fatemi</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>102</td> <td>120</td> <td>5</td> <td>3</td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Soraya_Dalil" class="mw-redirect" title="Soraya Dalil">Soraya Dalil</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>7</td> <td>Information and Culture</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Sayed_Makhdum_Rahin" class="mw-redirect" title="Sayed Makhdum Rahin">Sayed Makhdum Rahin</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td>120</td> <td>93</td> <td>14</td> <td>4</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td>8</td> <td>Energy and Water</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ismail_Khan" title="Ismail Khan">Ismail Khan</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>111</td> <td>109</td> <td>5</td> <td>5</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td>9</td> <td>Mines</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Waheedullah_Sharani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Waheedullah Sharani (page does not exist)">Waheedullah Sharani</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td>140</td> <td>78</td> <td>13</td> <td>1</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td>10</td> <td>Education</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Ghulam_Farooq_Wardak" title="Ghulam Farooq Wardak">Ghulam Farooq Wardak</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td>155</td> <td>73</td> <td>3</td> <td>-</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">11</td> <td rowspan="2">Justice</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Sarwar_Danish" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Sarwar Danish">Mohammad Sarwar Danish</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Habibullah_Ghaleb&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Habibullah Ghaleb (page does not exist)">Habibullah Ghaleb</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">12</td> <td rowspan="2">Communications and Information Technology</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Amirzai_Sangin" title="Amirzai Sangin">Amirzai Sangin</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>92</td> <td>130</td> <td>8</td> <td>1</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abdul_Qadus_Hamidi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abdul Qadus Hamidi (page does not exist)">Abdul Qadus Hamidi</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">13</td> <td rowspan="2">Commerce and Industries</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ghulam_Mohammad_Aylaqi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ghulam Mohammad Aylaqi (page does not exist)">Ghulam Mohammad Aylaqi</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>76</td> <td>138</td> <td>13</td> <td>4</td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zahir_Waheed&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zahir Waheed (page does not exist)">Zahir Waheed</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td>14</td> <td>Agriculture</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Asef_Rahimi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Asef Rahimi">Mohammad Asef Rahimi</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td>136</td> <td>89</td> <td>3</td> <td>2</td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">15</td> <td rowspan="2">Women Affairs</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Husn_Bano_Ghazanfar" class="mw-redirect" title="Husn Bano Ghazanfar">Husn Bano Ghazanfar</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>115</td> <td>108</td> <td>8</td> <td>1</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Palwasha_Hassan" title="Palwasha Hassan">Palwasha Hassan</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">16</td> <td rowspan="2">Returnees and Refugees</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Enayatullah_Nazari" title="Enayatullah Nazari">Enayatullah Nazari</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>82</td> <td>133</td> <td>11</td> <td>3</td> <td>3 </td></tr> <tr> <td>Abdul Rahim</td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">17</td> <td rowspan="2">Islamic Affairs</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Enayatullah_Baligh&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Enayatullah Baligh (page does not exist)">Enayatullah Baligh</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>108</td> <td>115</td> <td>6</td> <td>2</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Yasouf_Neyazi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohammad Yasouf Neyazi (page does not exist)">Mohammad Yasouf Neyazi</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">18</td> <td rowspan="2">Border and Tribal Affairs</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sayed_Hamid_Gailani&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sayed Hamid Gailani (page does not exist)">Sayed Hamid Gailani</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>70</td> <td>149</td> <td>11</td> <td>2</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Arsala_Jamal" title="Arsala Jamal">Arsala Jamal</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">19</td> <td rowspan="2">Counter Narcotics</td> <td><a href="/wiki/General_Khodaidad" class="mw-redirect" title="General Khodaidad">General Khodaidad</a></td> <td>incumbent</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>36</td> <td>176</td> <td>17</td> <td>3</td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Zara_Ahmad_Muqbel&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zara Ahmad Muqbel (page does not exist)">Zara Ahmad Muqbel</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">20</td> <td rowspan="2">Higher Education</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Obaidullah_Obaid&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Obaidullah Obaid (page does not exist)">Obaidullah Obaid</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>94</td> <td>121</td> <td>12</td> <td>5</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Hashim_Esmatullahi" title="Muhammad Hashim Esmatullahi">Muhammad Hashim Esmatullahi</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">21</td> <td rowspan="2">Public Works</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mirza_Hussain_Abdullahi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mirza Hussain Abdullahi (page does not exist)">Mirza Hussain Abdullahi</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>33</td> <td>179</td> <td>17</td> <td>2</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Bashir_Lali&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohammad Bashir Lali (page does not exist)">Mohammad Bashir Lali</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">22</td> <td rowspan="2">Rural Rehabilitation and Development</td> <td><a href="/wiki/Wais_Ahmad_Barmak" class="mw-redirect" title="Wais Ahmad Barmak">Wais Ahmad Barmak</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>90</td> <td>127</td> <td>9</td> <td>4</td> <td>2 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Jarullah_Mansoori&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Jarullah Mansoori (page does not exist)">Jarullah Mansoori</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">23</td> <td rowspan="2">Labour and Social Affairs</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Esmail_Monshi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohammad Esmail Monshi (page does not exist)">Mohammad Esmail Monshi</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>39</td> <td>176</td> <td>14</td> <td>2</td> <td>1 </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/wiki/Amina_Afzali" title="Amina Afzali">Amina Afzali</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="check" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/20px-Yes_check.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="20" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/30px-Yes_check.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/f/fb/Yes_check.svg/40px-Yes_check.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="600" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">Y</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">24</td> <td rowspan="2">Transport</td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammadullah_Batash&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohammadullah Batash (page does not exist)">Mohammadullah Batash</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td>82</td> <td>138</td> <td>10</td> <td>3</td> <td>- </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abdul_Rahim_Horas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abdul Rahim Horas (page does not exist)">Abdul Rahim Horas</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td rowspan="2">25</td> <td rowspan="2">Urban Development</td> <td><i>not nominated</i></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr> <tr> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sultan_Hussain_Nasiri&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sultan Hussain Nasiri (page does not exist)">Sultan Hussain Nasiri</a></td> <td>new</td> <td><span typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="☒" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/20px-X_mark.svg.png" decoding="async" width="20" height="23" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/30px-X_mark.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a2/X_mark.svg/40px-X_mark.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="525" data-file-height="600" /></span></span><span style="display:none">N</span></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td></td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Second_list_of_candidates">Second list of candidates</h4><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Second list of candidates"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>On 9 January 2010, Karzai presented his second list of candidates to the Wolesi Jirga, including one to replace the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Spanta. Three of the new nominees were women, for the posts of Women's Affairs, Public Health, and Disabled and Martyr portfolios – the only woman on the first list of candidates was rejected. <a href="/w/index.php?title=Pelwasha_Hassan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pelwasha Hassan (page does not exist)">Pelwasha Hassan</a>, a prominent activist, was now chosen by him as minister of women's affairs. Karzai had been sharply criticized when his previous line-up had only one woman. Only names for the Ministry of Energy and Water or the Ministry of Telecommunications were still lacking.<sup id="cite_ref-77" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-78" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-79" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-80" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among the new nominees was <a href="/wiki/Abdul_Hadi_Arghandiwal" title="Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal">Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal</a>, as candidate for the post of economics. Arghandiawal is the chairman of a party that is an offshoot of the <a href="/wiki/Hezb-i-Islami" class="mw-redirect" title="Hezb-i-Islami">Hezb-i-Islami</a> movement, who was accused before of having contacts with warlord <a href="/wiki/Gulbuddin_Hekmatyar" title="Gulbuddin Hekmatyar">Gulbuddin Hekmatyar</a>. This choice could be in line with Karzai's desire fore reconciliation with insurgents willing to lay down their arms and join the political system.<sup id="cite_ref-81" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>After the second list of candidates was offered, several parliament members expressed discontent about the quality of the nominees, and analysts predicted a new crisis.<sup id="cite_ref-82" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-83" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-84" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to analysts the new nominees represented a cross-section of Afghanistan's ethnic mix of Pashtun, Uzbek, Tajik and Hazara, but the common thread would be their inexperience.<sup id="cite_ref-85" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> On 16 January, the parliament rejected more than half of the second slate of candidates. Among the approved nominees were Foreign Minister <a href="/wiki/Zalmay_Rasoul" class="mw-redirect" title="Zalmay Rasoul">Zalmay Rasoul</a>, Justice Minister <a href="/w/index.php?title=Habibullah_Ghalib&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Habibullah Ghalib (page does not exist)">Habibullah Ghalib</a>, Minister for Economy Arghandiwal and Minister for Counter-Narcotics <a href="/w/index.php?title=Zarar_Ahmad&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Zarar Ahmad (page does not exist)">Zarar Ahmad</a>, but 10 out of the 17 candidates were voted down.<sup id="cite_ref-86" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The only woman approved was <a href="/wiki/Amena_Afzali" class="mw-redirect" title="Amena Afzali">Amena Afzali</a> as minister for Public Works, Martyrs and the Disabled.<sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-88" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-89" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 17 January, the Afghan parliament prolonged uncertainty by shutting for its winter recess until 20 February, without waiting for President Karzai to fill the rest of his cabinet.<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="wikitable"> <tbody><tr> <th>Portfolio </th> <th>Minister </th></tr> <tr> <td>Foreign Affairs </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zalmay_Rasoul" class="mw-redirect" title="Zalmay Rasoul">Zalmay Rasoul</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Justice </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Habibullah_Ghaleb&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Habibullah Ghaleb (page does not exist)">Habibullah Ghaleb</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Public Health </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Suraya_Dalil" title="Suraya Dalil">Suraya Dalil</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Women's Affairs </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Pelwasha_Hassan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Pelwasha Hassan (page does not exist)">Pelwasha Hassan</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Higher Education </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Hashim_Esmatullahi" class="mw-redirect" title="Mohammad Hashim Esmatullahi">Mohammad Hashim Esmatullahi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Economy </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Hadi_Arghandiwal" title="Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal">Abdul Hadi Arghandiwal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Hajj and Mosque/Religious Affairs </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Yasouf_Neyazi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohammad Yasouf Neyazi (page does not exist)">Mohammad Yasouf Neyazi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Refugees and Repatriation </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Abdul_Rahim_(engineer)" class="mw-redirect" title="Abdul Rahim (engineer)">Abdul Rahim</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Transportation and Civil Aviation </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abdul_Rahim_Horas&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abdul Rahim Horas (page does not exist)">Abdul Rahim Horas</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Commerce </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Hadi_Hakimi&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohammad Hadi Hakimi (page does not exist)">Mohammad Hadi Hakimi</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Public Welfare </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mohammad_Bashir_Lali&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Mohammad Bashir Lali (page does not exist)">Mohammad Bashir Lali</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Work and Social Affairs/Martyred and Disabled </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Amina_Afzali" title="Amina Afzali">Amina Afzali</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Border and Tribal Affairs </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Arsaleh_Jamal&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Arsaleh Jamal (page does not exist)">Arsaleh Jamal</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Development and Rural Affairs </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Janullah_Mansouri&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Janullah Mansouri (page does not exist)">Janullah Mansouri</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Counternarcotics </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Zarar_Ahmad_Moqbel" class="mw-redirect" title="Zarar Ahmad Moqbel">Zarar Ahmad Moqbel</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td>Urban Development </td> <td><a href="/w/index.php?title=Sultan_Hussain_Nasery&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Sultan Hussain Nasery (page does not exist)">Sultan Hussain Nasery</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p>On 26 January 2010, on the eve of the <a href="/wiki/International_Afghanistan_Conference_in_London_2010" class="mw-redirect" title="International Afghanistan Conference in London 2010">International Afghanistan Conference in London</a> Karzai set the framework for dialogue with Taliban leaders when he called on the group's leadership to take part in a "<a href="/wiki/Loya_Jirga" class="mw-redirect" title="Loya Jirga">Loya Jirga</a>" – or large assembly of elders—to initiate peace talks. A Taliban spokesman declined to talk in detail about Karzai's plans and only said the militants would make a decision "soon" about his offer.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Second_term_as_President_of_the_Islamic_Republic_of_Afghanistan_2009-2014">Second term as President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 2009-2014</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Second term as President of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan 2009-2014"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Hamid_Karzai_at_Kandahar_in_June_2010.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Hamid_Karzai_at_Kandahar_in_June_2010.jpg/170px-Hamid_Karzai_at_Kandahar_in_June_2010.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Hamid_Karzai_at_Kandahar_in_June_2010.jpg/255px-Hamid_Karzai_at_Kandahar_in_June_2010.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Hamid_Karzai_at_Kandahar_in_June_2010.jpg/340px-Hamid_Karzai_at_Kandahar_in_June_2010.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1611" data-file-height="2400" /></a><figcaption>Karzai speaking at a <a href="/wiki/Shura" title="Shura">shura</a> to tribal and religious leaders in Kandahar, the core area of Taliban insurgency.</figcaption></figure> <p>The beginning of the second term of Karzai was marked by his problems with forming a new cabinet approved by the parliament (see above), the <a href="/wiki/International_Conference_on_Afghanistan_(2010)" class="mw-redirect" title="International Conference on Afghanistan (2010)">International Afghanistan Conference in London</a> on 28 January 2010, the announcement to hold a <i>"<a href="/wiki/Afghan_Peace_Jirga_2010" title="Afghan Peace Jirga 2010">Peace Jirga</a>"</i>, the <a href="/wiki/Operation_Moshtarak" title="Operation Moshtarak">Operation Moshtarak</a> in Southern Afghanistan in February 2010, the International Conference on Afghanistan in Kabul in July 2010, and the spread of the Taliban insurgency to the northern provinces of the country.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>On 15 February 2010, the American newspaper <i><a href="/wiki/Washington_Post" class="mw-redirect" title="Washington Post">Washington Post</a></i> published an obtained draft of changes to the Afghan election law that was presented at a cabinet meeting earlier that month. This thorough rewriting of the current law dating from 2005 proposed to remove all three foreign members from the Electoral Complaints Commission: one member would be chosen by the Supreme Court, two by the parliament, one by the <a href="/wiki/Afghan_Independent_Human_Rights_Commission" title="Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission">Afghan Independent Human Rights Commission</a> and one by the president. In the presidential elections of 2009, the five-member ECC—including three international members appointed by the <a href="/w/index.php?title=U.N._envoy_to_Afghanistan&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="U.N. envoy to Afghanistan (page does not exist)">U.N. envoy to Afghanistan</a> – calculated that Karzai lost his first-round majority by the amount of vote-rigging and would need to face a run-off. The proposal would also limit the fixed number of women in Wolesi Jirga (Lower House) to a maximum of two per each of the country's 34 provinces. Further the proposal intended to establish restrictive qualifications for presidential candidates: they should have a <a href="/wiki/Bachelor%27s_degree" title="Bachelor's degree">bachelor's degree</a> and a "good reputation" and be a "wise and brave person" and not been "affected by psychic diseases." Presidential candidates would also have to deposit a bail of 5 million Afghanis (about $100,000), to be refunded only if the candidate wins or receives at least 20 percent of the vote (of the 32 candidates listed by the election commission in 2009, only two cleared this threshold). Karzai's spokesman <a href="/wiki/Wahid_Omar" title="Wahid Omar">Wahid Omar</a> said that amendments were approved by the cabinet and sent to the Ministry of Justice. Karzai could sign a decree on the changes while the parliament had its winter recess.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In March 2010 the president's office admitted that it had entered into force without Karzai's signature the <i>National Reconciliation Charter</i> that the Afghan parliament passed in 2007, granting immunity from prosecution to combatants in past conflicts since the Soviet's invasion in 1979<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> ([in 2005, <a href="/wiki/Human_Rights_Watch" title="Human Rights Watch">Human Rights Watch</a> documented one particularly grisly period in 1992–93 in its report "Blood Stained Hands: Past Atrocities in Kabul and Afghanistan's Legacy of Impunity"<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup>). This law was not signed off by him because of the many objections that were raised by domestic and international rights groups.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The resolution which was passed earlier by the lower house of Parliament, Wolesi Jirga, on 31 January 2007 provided impunity to the war criminals including Taliban leader Mullah <a href="/wiki/Mullah_Omar" title="Mullah Omar">Mohammed Omar</a>. </p><p>In September 2012, Karzai fired and hired 10 <a href="/wiki/List_of_current_governors_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of current governors of Afghanistan">provincial governors</a> in an attempt to improve governance and stop corruption on the local level.<sup id="cite_ref-Appoints_104-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Appoints-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This came weeks after he replaced Afghan security officials to take better control of state machinery and key ministries.<sup id="cite_ref-Fires_105-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Fires-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the fired governors was <a href="/wiki/Mohammad_Gulab_Mangal" title="Mohammad Gulab Mangal">Mohammad Gulab Mangal</a>, who was in charge of the <a href="/wiki/Taliban" title="Taliban">Taliban</a>-filled <a href="/wiki/Helmand_Province" title="Helmand Province">Helmand Province</a> and had both American and British support.<sup id="cite_ref-Reshuffles_106-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Reshuffles-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Afghan's international supporters have previously requested improvements in the local administrations.<sup id="cite_ref-Appoints_104-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Appoints-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Karzai's second term as president ended on 29 September 2014. He was succeeded by <a href="/wiki/Ashraf_Ghani" title="Ashraf Ghani">Ashraf Ghani</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: See also"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Politics_of_Afghanistan" title="Politics of Afghanistan">Politics of Afghanistan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_presidents_of_Afghanistan" class="mw-redirect" title="List of presidents of Afghanistan">List of presidents of Afghanistan</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Presidency_of_Hamid_Karzai&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 30em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20100423173109/http://www.achievement.org/autodoc/page/kar0pro-1">"Academy of Achievement – Profile: Hamid Karzai"</a>. 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