Quite unexpectedly, MP's gave vote of confidence to nominees of President Karzai for three key posts in his cabinet. Bismellah Mohammadi, the former interior minister gained 124 positive votes from 242 present MPs and became the new defense minister. Assadullah Khaleed, the former governors of Kandahar and Ghazni provinces with 143 votes became the chief of National Directorate of Security (NDS), and finally, Mohmmad Mojtaba Patang, the former deputy to Ministry of interior with 129 positive votes became the interior minister.

The procedure of voting was held a bit differently. Previously, the nominees of President Karzai, first of all, were introducing themselves, talking about their qualifications and experiences, and also presenting their future plans. After that, MPs were given chance to put hard questions ahead and demand further clarification of their plans. Sometimes such exchange of questions and answers took hours and finally MPs were making their minds whether to vote in favor or against.

But on Saturday, though nominees were asked to present their plans, MPs were not provided chance to question their background, inactivity while they held key posts in the past, or about allegations made against them.
Indeed this part was cut off the procedure because of that, Ramazan

Bashar Dost left the parliamentary session as a protest and Abdul Latif Pedram, the representative from Badakhshan Province, also said that questioning of nominees were MPs rights and they should act responsibly. The MPs were not given a chance to question the nominees after most of the MPs voted against such an opportunity, as after an uncomfortable discussion on the issue, it was put to voting.

Previously, the first Vice-President, General Marshal Fahim asked MPs to give vote of confidence to nominees for the sake of national interest and national expedience. There may have been influence of such an inclination that the MPs voted in the favor of the nominees, however, it can be noted easily that MPs are greatly divided on their views and most of them are undecided about their decision.

The members of parliament proved that they were not very much sure of their decision they made while disqualifying the ministers; the fact is very clear in case of Bismellah Mohammadi. He was previously disqualified from the interior ministry by them, and just within few days was reselected to occupy a comparatively higher position in the cabinet.