BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: We want to turn our focus back on Kabul and the interim government taking root this past weekend. They have an enormous task in front of them for a country that has virtually nothing at this point. From Kabul now, CNN's Harris Whitbeck and this report on the government taking shape.</s>HARRIS WHITBECK, CNN CORRESPONDENT: The chairman of Afghanistan's new interim government, Hamid Karzai, took steps toward consolidating the unity of his new government. He named one of Afghanistan's most powerful warlords as deputy minister of defense. Gen. Abdul Rashid Dostum had controlled a large part of Afghanistan during the fight against the Taliban, and his taking of the strategic city of Mazar-e Sharif helped pave the way for the eventual defeat of the Taliban in Afghanistan. With two of the most powerful warlords in the country now in the top positions in the ministry of defense, Afghanistan is well on its way toward the formation of a professional unified army. Chairman Karzai had said, during his swearing-in ceremony, that he wanted a unified army for his country, and he had asked the United Nations help him to that effect. Gen. Dostum, the new deputy prime minister, has sparked some controversy in the past. During the Bonn Agreement that led to the creation of new government, he had expressed his concern over the fact that he had not been given a major role to play in this new government, and the fact that he is such a powerful warlord had sparked some concern that the unity of the government and peace in Afghanistan might be relatively short-lived. Harris Whitbeck, CNN, Kabul, Afghanistan.
Afghan Government Gets to Work