The Afghan President Hamid Karzai has presented the country's parliament with a new list of nominees for cabinet posts. The proposals come a week after 17 of his initial 24 nominees were rejected.The second round of nominees includes the post of foreign minister, which was left unfilled on the last vote. Mr Karzai is hoping to finalise his cabinet before an international conference on Afghanistan in London later this month.The more than 200 members of parliament will question each of the nominees, a process which is expected to take several days, before voting in a secret ballot. The rejection of most of Mr Karzai's first nominees on 2 January effectively left Afghanistan without a fully functioning government. Only seven posts were approved, including Interior Minister Hanif Atmar and Defence Minister Abdul Rahim Wardak, who was re-appointed. Women's Affairs Minister Husn Bano Ghazanfar – the only woman in the cabinet – was among those who failed to win approval.