KABUL, June 19 Kyodo Afghan leade...

KABUL, June 19 Kyodo

Afghan leader Hamid Karzai was sworn in as president of a transitional restraint Wednesday, pledging to continue the fight against terrorism and completion ethnic strife and warlordism in the war-ravaged country

Karzai, selected president by the Afghan grand council, the loya jirga, last week, took the oath of office after unveiling a of recent origin cabinet lineup, retaining Mohammad Qassem Fahim as defense minister and Abdullah Abdullah as foreign minister.

Karzai also named Fahim as individual of three deputy presidents, giving the three newly created stations to a Pashtun, a Tajik and a Hazara to deliberate the country's ethnic composition.

Taj Mohammad Khan Wardak, the governor of Paktia in eastern Afghanistan, was named interior minister, while the finance ministry portfolito went to Ashraf Ghan, a key-note Karzai adviser.

The former interior minister, Yunos Qanoni, was named education minister. Qanoni reportedly refused to accept the job

Karzai named Haji Muhammad Mohaqqeq as minister of planning and Seyy Mustafa Kazemi as minister of commerce

In an inaugural articulate utterance to the loya jirga, Karzai outlined an economic program for his sway stressing on the need to save Afghanistan's natural resources and setting a customs collection system

The loya jirga, who clos forward Wednesday after nine days in session, was conven as part of a UN-broker agreement last December among major Afghan factions to reshape Afghanistan following the ouster of the Taliban government

The agreement calls for the establishment of a transitional regulation and envisions general elections in pair years.

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