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| Afghan MPs reject Karzai nominees | Afghan MPs reject Karzai nominees |
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| The Afghan parliament has rejected more than half of President Hamid Karzai's 24 nominees for his new cabinet. | |
| Energy portfolio nominee Ismail Khan, a former warlord, was among the rejected. | |
| The justice, commerce, economy and health briefs were among other posts left vacant, but Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak was approved. | |
| Mr Karzai has been under pressure from Western allies to name a cabinet committed to tackling corruption, after his controversial re-election. | |
| Saturday's secret ballot of more than 200 MPs is one of the few occasions when parliamentarians have genuine power to hold the executive to account, say analysts. | |
| Among the most well-known names to be rejected was Mr Khan, a Soviet-era guerrilla leader and anti-Taliban commander who was also energy minister in the last cabinet. | |
| He is unpopular with some because of his role as a warlord in western Herat province during Afghanistan's civil war. | |
| No-one has been nominated foreign minister so far and the post is not expected to be filled until a conference on Afghanistan in London later this month. | |
| Mr Karzai presented his new cabinet to parliament two weeks ago. | Mr Karzai presented his new cabinet to parliament two weeks ago. |
| He was returned for a second five-year term after last August's election, despite investigators discovering more than a quarter of votes were fraudulent. | |