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The Interim Government comprises 29 members of the Executive Council from four distinct groups. The Northern Alliance, which controls two thirds of the country, has 18 members, the majority of whom are ethnic Tajiks. The Rome Group, whose loyalty lies with King Mohammed Zahir Shah, an exile in Rome since 1973, includes Afghans of mixed ethnic origins. The smaller Cyprus Group is reportedly backed by Iran, and the Peshawar Group is based in Pakistan. In addition to the prominent leaders described below, there are 14 ministers from the Northern Alliance, five from the Rome Group and one from the Peshawar Group. One member from the Rome Group was killed at the Kabul Airport.
Provisional Interim Cabinet Agreed To By The Four Afghan Factions Attending Talks In Bonn
Chairman Hamid Karzai: A Pashtun leader from the powerful Popolzai tribe in the Kandahar region of southern Afghanistan, he was the Deputy Foreign Minister in the Burhanuddin Rabbani government in the early 1990s. Fluent in several languages, Karzai was educated in India and has lived in Pakistan and the US.
Defense Minister Mohammad Qaseem Fahim: He served as the Minister of Defense in the Rabbani government and is a member of the Jamiat-e-Islamic. An ethnic Tajik from the Panjshir Valley, he replaced General Ahmad Shah Massoud in September 2001 as top military commander of the Northern Alliance, and led the militia that took Kabul from the Taliban the following month.
Interior Minister Mohammad Yonus Qanooni: An ethnic Tajik from the northern Panjshir Valley, Qanooni was the Deputy Defense Minister and then Interior Minister in the Rabbani government. A member of the Northern Alliance and the Jamiat-e-Islamic (Islamic Society), he has opposed the increase of US peacekeepers in Afghanistan. Having survived an attempt on his life that was widely attributed to Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, a powerful warlord, Qanooni walks with a cane.
Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullah Abdullah: A medical doctor, from 1992 to 1996, he served as Foreign Minister in the Rabbani government. A member of the Northern Alliance and the Jamiat-e-Islamic, Abdullah was the chief spokesperson for the legendary General Ahmad Shah Massood until the commander was assassinated on September 9, 2001. Born to a Pashtun mother in the Tajik heartland of the Panjshir Valley, Dr. Abdullah was raised in Kabul. He is fluent in several languages including French and English.
Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Women’s Affairs Dr. Sima Samar: Samar is a member of the Rome Group from the minority ethnic Hazara clan in Ghazni, south of Kabul. She belonged to the feminist Revolutionary Afghan Women’s Association. After the Soviet invasion, Dr. Samar fled to Pakistan where she treated patients in a refugee camp. In 1987, she opened the Shuhada organization, which runs four hospitals and three clinics in Afghanistan and a hospital in Quetta. It provides medical assistance, education and medical training for women and girls. Dr. Samar works with Women Living Under Muslim Law, an international network with a powerful voice in the United Nations. She does not accept the requirement of the purdah (hiding the face from public view) or burqa (robes that cover the body from head to toe) for women.
Minister of Urban Development Haji Abdul Qadeer: A member of the Northern Alliance, Qadeer was the Governor of the province of Nangarhar, a Pashtun area that connects Kabul to Peshawar in southern Afghanistan. In December 2001, he acted as a Pashtun delegate of the Northern Alliance at the UN Talks on Afghanistan in Bonn. His brother was the late Abdul Haq, a celebrated Mujahideen commander who was captured and executed by the Taliban in October 2001.
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Minister of Public Health Suhaila Seddiqi: A 60-year-old surgeon related to the Afghan royal family, she is an ethnic Muhammadzai Pashtun and a member of the Rome Group. She was the Surgeon General during the rule of President Najibullah under the Soviets, and in 1996 she was Chief of Surgery at the Wazir Akbar Khan Hospital in Kabul. 
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Planning:
Haji Mohammad Mohaqqeq: Northern Alliance, Hazara
Water and Electricity:
To be named Northern Alliance, Uzbek
Commerce:
To be named Northern Alliance
Mines and Industries:
To be named Uzbek
Small Industries:
To be named Northern Alliance
Information and Culture:
Rahin Makhdoom Rome group
Communication:
To be named Northern Alliance
Labour and Social Affairs:
To be named Northern Alliance
Hajj Pilgrimage:
Maulawi Balkhi
Martyrs and Disabled:
To be named Northern Alliance
Education:
Abdul Salam Azimi Rome group
Higher Education:
To be named Northern Alliance
Public Works:
Juma Mohammad Mohammadi Rome group
Rural Development:
To be named Northern Alliance
Urban Development:
To be named Northern Alliance
Reconstruction:
Sardar Mohammad Roshan Rome group
Transport:
Ishaq Shahryar Peshawar group
Return of Refugees:
To be named Northern Alliance
Agriculture:
To be named Northern Alliance, Uzbek
Irrigation:
Mohammad Jalil Shams Cyprus group
Justice:
To be named Northern Alliance
Air Transport and Tourism:
Rahim Wardak Rome group
Department of Border Affairs:
Amanullah Dzadran Rome group
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arathon talks for 9 days held in Bonn, Germany among four representative groups of Afghan various groups yielded a new interim government for Afghanistan. A draft of interim government was proposed by the UN nation for discussion of all delegates at the talks.