| The two main factions at the talks on Afghanistan's political future appear to have agreed on a candidate to head an interim government.An adviser to the Northern Alliance said on Sunday that it had agreed with the royalist Rome faction to nominate Abdul Sattar Seerat, an aide to former king Zahir Shah, to the post. Seerat is an ethnic Uzbek who served as justice minister before the king was forced into exile in 1973. A Western diplomat said that the royalist faction had suggested Mr Sirat, thus ruling out its expected choice, Hamid Karzai, a member of Afghanistan's dominant Pashtun community. |