While composing the transitional administration, Karzai had to balance between different powerful groups who all wanted to be represented in the government.

Warlords like Gul Agha Sherzai, Yunus Qanuni and Sayed Hussain Anwari didn't return to the cabinet and were replaced by technocrats with work experience relevant to their assigned portfolios.

[2] However, prominent warlord Ismail Khan, who had been represented in earlier cabinets by his son Mir Wais Saddiq was named Water and Energy Minister[3] Defense Minister Muhammad Fahim was replaced by his deputy Abdur Rahim Wardak, a Pashtun leader who fought the Soviet occupation during the 1980s.

[4] Ghani alienated many of his colleagues, but was popular by western allies of Afghanistan and became chief of Kabul University.

He also created a new Counternarcotics Ministry to confront Afghanistan's burgeoning opium industry and appointed the relatively unknown Habibullah Qadari to its helm.

On 28 September Karzai appointed his deputy, Ahmad Moqbel Zarar as acting minister.

On 22 March 2006 Karzai announced the following changes would be made in the cabinet he would send to the Wolesi Jirga for approval.

The approvals on Thursday came after strong lobbying by members of the presidential staff and the ministers themselves and an appeal from the chairman of Parliament, Muhammad Yunus Qanooni, to place the national interest above ethnic and personal divisions.

According to analysts many legislators regard themselves as part of a united front to guard and interpret Afghanistan's Islamic identity.

[16] Raheen was widely criticized in his hearing for allowing films and videos that were considered offensive to strict Muslims to be broadcast on cable and national channels.

[15] The rejection of Ahmadi and Reza was due to poor performances in the hearings, the New York Times reported.

The same day the Afghan Parliament approved the appointment of Ghulam Farooq Wardak to the old portfolio of Atmar.

At the same time, Karzai appointed Zarar Ahmad Muqbal as new Minister of Refugees and Repatriation, and named Assadullah Khalid as Wardak's successor as ministry of Parliamentary Affairs.

President Karzai has asked the Attorney General to investigate Qaderi for corruption and appointed his chief economic advisor Omar Zakhilwal as acting Minister of Transport and Civil Aviation and head of the Hajj committee.