1.   Because the Interior Ministry registers citizenship, Russian immigrants have many complaints about the Shas party, which under Netanyahu has controlled the ministry.

2.   Each of the warlords has his own floor in the executive palace, and each also controls ministries and is in private business.

3.   In addition, the Welfare Party will control the ministry of environment and energy, which oversees bidding for contracts by Western oil companies.

4.   In exchange, the party, known as the MQM, will control key ministries in Sindh.

5.   In the outgoing administration, the Tajik clique controlled the ministries of defense, interior and foreign affairs.

6.   The agents behind the killings are widely believed to be supporters of the hard-liners and the ministry itself is controlled by the hard-line faction.

7.   The election winner, Solidarity Electoral Action, a Solidarity-led alliance of rightist parties, is to control ten ministries, according to unofficial reports.

8.   The ministry is controlled by hard-liners.

9.   Eytan was thus barred from holding controlling any ministry with access to classified data and was subsequently named agriculture minister and deputy prime minister.

10.   They control five ministries including the interior and transport ministries.