Abdul Sattar Sirat, right, the leader of the delegation representing former Afghan King Mohammad Zaher Shah, and the king's grandson Mostapha Zaher, left, talk with each other prior to a press conference in Koenigswinter, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001, on the third day of the U.N.-organized talks on Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Sima Wali, the only female member of the so-called Rome delegation representing Afghanistan's former King Zahir Shah, looks over the shoulders of delegation leader Abdul Sattar Sirat (L) and Shah Mostapha Zahir, the grandson of the former Afghan King, during a news conference on the third day of UN talks on Afghanistan in Koenigswinter near Bonn November 29, 2001. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

Mostapha Zaher, grandson of former Afghan King Mohammed Zaher Shah, attends a news conference in Koenigswinter, Germany, Thursday, Nov. 29, 2001, on the third day of the U.N.-organized talks on Afghanistan. (AP Photo/Frank Augstein)

Abdul Sattar Sirat, the head of the so-called Rome delegation of former Afghan King Zahir Shah, gestures during a news conference on the third day of the UN talks on Afghanistan in Koenigswinter near Bonn November 29, 2001. Sirat confirmed that the UN talks on Afghanistan had made progress. REUTERS/Wolfgang

Sima Wali (L), a member of the Afghanistan talks delegation of the so-called Rome group, and Swede Maj-Britt Theorin, chairwoman of the equality commission at the European parliament, leave a discussion of European women rights activists during the UN talks on Afghanistan November 29, 2001. European feminists lectured the mostly male delegates at Afghan peace talks in Bonn on women's rights and said women must play a significant role in a post-Taliban government in Afghanistan. (Pool via Reuters)

 

Sima Wali, a member of the Afghanistan talks delegation of former Afghan so-called Rome group, talks to reporters during a break in talks on Afghanistan in Koenigswinter near Bonn November 28, 2001. Wali told reporters she was optimistic about the progress of the talks. 'There is a spirit of cooperation and we are working as Afghan brothers and sisters - we are all tired of the war'. (Wolfgang Rattay/Reuters

 

Rona Mansuri, left, of the delegation from Rome, attends the start of the U.N. organized talks on Afghanistan in Koenigswinter near Bonn, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001. Mansuri and Amena Afzali from the United Front are the only women in the four delegations taking part at the talks. With regional stability and billions in international aid at stake, Afghan factions opened the talks Tuesday on how to share power and secure peace once the Taliban are defeated. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

Abdul Sattar Sirat of the Rome delegation addresses the delegates at the start of the U.N. organized talks on Afghanistan in Koenigswinter near Bonn, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001. The Rome delegation is one of the four delegations taking part at the talks. At left is an unidentified U.N. observer. With regional stability and billions in international aid at stake, Afghan factions opened the talks Tuesday on how to share power and secure peace once the Taliban are defeated. (AP Photo/Herbert Knosowski)

Mostapha Zahir (L), grandson of former Afghan King Zahir Shahis, representing the Rome delegation, listens to the opening speeches of Afghanistan leaders during first session of UN talks on Afghanistan at the Petersberg in Koenigswinter near Bonn November 27, 2001. Diplomats hope the talks in the secluded hilltop hotel could set up an interim Afghan leadership council of about 15 people -- akin to a cabinet -- and a larger group of more than 100 people acting as a sort of parliament before elections are held later. At right is P.K. Dzadran a traditional dressed member of the Rome delegation. REUTERS/Wolfgang Rattay

Mostapha Zaher, grandson of former Afghan King Mohammad Zaher Shah, seen in posters behind, talks to Afghan royalists demonstrating in Koenigswinter, near Bonn, Germany, Tuesday, Nov. 27, 2001, on occasion of the beginning of the Talks on Afghanistan in the nearby German government's Petersberg guest house. With regional stability and billions in international aid at stake, Afghan factions opened the talks Tuesday on how to share power and secure peace once the Taliban are defeated. Person at right unidentified. (AP Photo/Markus Schreiber