Karzai’s Cabinet fails to get backing of MPs in ‘victory for democracy’

President Karzai has suffered an embarrassing blow to his authority after the Afghan parliament rejected two thirds of his nominees for his new Cabinet, including the only woman and a warlord accused of human rights abuses.

The head of the United Nations in Kabul warned that the country risked floundering “without a functioning government”, after only seven of the President’s twenty-four ministerial candidates were approved in a secret ballot on Saturday.

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