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Events on Wednesday 19 June 2002 1
2002Loya Jirga elects Hamid KarzaiAfghan grand assembly names a transitional governmentAn emergency Loya Jirga of some 1,500 Afghan delegates met in Kabul from 11 to 19 June 2002 and chose Hamid Karzai to lead a transitional administration for the next two years. The assembly followed the Bonn Agreement reached after the fall of the Taliban. It gave Karzai a broader mandate but left real power fragmented among regional commanders.