Afghanistan after the Taliban is indeed a society expected to show more respect to human rights and the rights of women to education hitherto absent during the Taliban years. United Nations-sponsored negotiations in Bonn, Germany, resulted in agreement on December 5, 2001, among four major Afghan factions to create an interim post-Taliban administration in Afghanistan. Hamid Karzai, a widely respected Pashtun leader, was chosen to head the interim administration, which took power in Kabul on December 22. Afghanistan after the Taliban also saw an international peacekeeping force maintained a measure of law and order in the capital although such forces may not stay beyond 2014 if withdrawal plans are implemented.
