Leaders spurn 17 Karzai picks for Cabinet jobs
Parliament wants new faces
Posted: January 3, 2010 at 3:26 a.m.
Afghan President Hamid Karzai (center) offers condolences Saturday to people in Lashkar Gah who lost family members in a recent airstrike.
Afghanistan’s parliament rebuked President Hamid Karzai on Saturday by rejecting 17 of his 24 nominees for a new Cabinet, including a regionally powerful warlord and the country’s only female minister.
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