Karzai appoints cabinet and is inuagurated by Loya Jirga

(19 Jun 2002)
1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
5. Wide shot interior loya jirga
6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
8. People raising their hands
9. Side view of Karzai at podium
10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage
11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari:
Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)"
12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony
13. UPSOUND (Dari) Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: "I ask God for success. (Karzai repeats after him) On your behalf, I inaugurate him - is that OK? Do you agree?", Hadi shakes Karzai's hand to signify end of inauguration
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Thank you very much. I thank God and pray for success from God to serve you well - thank you very much."
15. Delegates applauding
16. Karzai awarding medal to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
17. Wide shot of ceremony
18. Karzai awarding medal to US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
19. Cutaway of delegates
20. Karzai awarding medal to General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander
22. Karzai leaving
23. Wide shot tent interior
STORYLINE:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Wednesday after appointing a cabinet for an 18-month transitional administration.
Joined in a simple ceremony by Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari, Karzai vowed to protect the freedom of Afghanistan and uphold the laws of government.
Service medals were later awarded to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander.
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, the Afghan leader earlier reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held office in the interim cabinet, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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[@prit0012]

And Afghan govt fell today lol. How time changes

[@Troublemaker4]

This happens when you go against the nature and ground realities of a country. Taliban were the right people to rule, US should have backed them, instead of fighting them.

[@dilawarsafi3138]

الله ج دى اوږد عمر درکړى
ګرانه مشره .

[@wilsonfisk6626]

Should have restored the monarchy.

[@muhammadessa2501]

Pahtooon Pashtooon Pashtooon Khaieen Khaeeen Khaneeen

[@TheAfghan72]

How old is this? Abdullah looks very young here.

[@bashirhakimi4579]

2001

[@Troublemaker4]

Now Taliban have defeated both US and northern alliance in 2021 Alhamdulillah and all these western slaves of Afghanistan ran away

[@Pay2winboi]

And pakistan is close to bankruptcy while families are selling one child to feed other children in Afghanistan...even though they were right to kick yankees out but actions have fatal consequences especially cutting yourself off from rest of the world

[@alimajid8118]

No this Hamid Karzai rat is still there

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څه ښکلې او په زړه پورې ورځې وې تيرې شوې بيا هيڅکله هم نه راگرځي

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میلرګل به هم دغه ارمان کوی الله مو شریک ارمان ته شریک آخرت درکړی

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کرزی صاحب دیراشتباح واره الله دی عفوه ورته وکی

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چقدر به اسانی دیگرمردما را فریب میدهید