11.   But most of the government troops seen on the streets are ethnic Tajiks affiliated with the Northern Alliance, which dominates the interim cabinet.

12.   Dostam controls Mazar-i-Sharif but is unhappy about the UN-backed interim cabinet to be headed by Pashtun royalist Hamid Karzai.

13.   Dostam controls the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif but is unhappy about the UN-backed interim cabinet to be headed by Pashtun royalist Hamid Karzai.

14.   Ethnic and tribal violence in the provinces has underlined the fragility of the UN-backed interim cabinet as it tries to assert its control over the countryside.

15.   The reconstruction plan, he told AFP, will be submitted to the interim cabinet for consideration at its next meeting.

16.   Klaiber said the issue had been discussed by the interim cabinet on Monday and urged them to take an uncompromising stand on the issue.

17.   Karzai has been anxious to allay fears that his six-month interim cabinet will be unable to control provincial and tribal chieftans in the countryside.

18.   Karzai also named royalist Amin Arsala, former finance minister in the previous six-month interim cabinet, as his fifth vice president, government officials said.

19.   Karzai has been anxious to allay fears that his six-month interim cabinet will be unable to control provincial and tribal chieftains in the countryside.

20.   Khan now claims he has joined the Northern Alliance, which helped oust the Taliban last year and currently dominates the interim cabinet in Kabul.