Fancy Chairs of Afghanistan

Minister Mohammad Masoom Stanekzai, chief executive of the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program, (right), and Mohammad Ashraf Naseri, governor of Zabul province, listen to provincial leaders during a May 6, 2011 conference held in the capital city of Qalat. Photo by Master Sgt. Michael O'Connor

Jim Morris, the U.S. Department of State representative to the Kapisa Provincial Reconstruction Team (PRT), meets Aziz ul-Rahaman, the acting governor of Kapisa province, in Mahmud-e-Raqi, Afghanistan, April 5, 2011. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Kyle Brasier/Released)

U.S. Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry spent the day in Mehtar Lam, Laghman Province, meeting with Governor Azizi and visiting the Mastora Girls' School on Monday, February 14, 2011. US Embassy Kabul

U.S. Representative Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) meets with Mohammad Iqbal Azizi, Governor of Laghman Province, Afghanistan, on Sunday, March 20, 2011. US Embassy Kabul

U.S. Sen. John Kerry talks with Balkh provincial Gov. Atta at the Governor's compound in Mazar-i-Sharif, Balkh province, Afghanistan, May 14, 2011. (DoS photo by S.K. Vemmer/Released)

John A. Boehner, the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and a delegation of U.S. Representatives arrived in Kabul and met with President Karzai, April 19, 2011. US Embassy Kabul

John A. Boehner, the current Speaker of the United States House of Representatives and a delegation of U.S. Representatives arrived in Kabul and met with President Karzai, April 19, 2011. US Embassy Kabul

U.S. Ambassador Karl Eikenberry along with a delegation from the U.S. Embassy took a trip to Ghor province and met with Afghan offical, April 9, 2011. US Embassy Kabul

Afghan service members and officials attend a meeting at Nimroz Provincial Gov. Abdul Karim Barahawi's compound in Zaranj, Nimroz province Afghanistan, April 4, 2011. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Sgt. Mallory VanderSchans/Released)

U.S. Ambassador Karl W. Eikenberry meets with Governor Karim in Panjshir Province, Afghanistan on Thursday, March 31, 2011. US Embassy Kabul

Ambassador Karl Eikenberry and his wife Ching, along with a delagation of U.S. Embassy staff took a trip to Mazar-e-Sharif and met with Afghan officals, March 30, 2011. US Embassy Kabul

U.S. Representative Rob Wittman (R-VA) meets with Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Afghanistan, Professor Abdul Salaam Azimi, at the Supreme Court in Kabul, Afghanistan on Saturday, March 26, 2011. US Embassy Kabul

U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Stephen Townsend, with Task Force Iron, smiles as he listens to a public official speak during a meeting at the district center in Deh Yak, Ghazni province, Afghanistan, Dec. 14, 2010. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Justin Howe/Released)

Bismillah Khan Mohammadi, left, Afghan minister of interior, takes notes during a meeting with Governor Syed Fazlullah Wahedi, at the governor's compound, in Konar province, Afghanistan, Dec. 1, 2010. (U.S. Army photo by Spc. Andy Barrera/Released)

German Ambassador Rüdiger Königis is shown around new public hospital in Balkh province Afghanistan, due to be finished next month, by Governor Attah Mohammad Noor and the head of public hospitals Mr.Mirwais Rabeh. April 21, 2011.

Members of the Balkh provincial government, district governors and NATO forces discuss efforts to extend the reach of state institutions in the governor's meeting room, Balkh province, Afghanistan, Oct. 26, 2010. (U.S. Army photo by Pfc. Cynthia S. Teears Van Cleve/Released)

Women and men gather at a women's issues shura in Jalalabad, Nangarhar province, Afghanistan, Oct. 14, 2010. The shura, or council meeting, was held at the provincial governor's compound in Jalalabad to discuss women's issues. (U.S. Air Force photo by Capt. Mary Danner-Jones/Released)

Delegates listen to the opening address of the peace jirga by Afghanistan's President Hamid Karzai in Kabul June 2, 2010.

U.S. Soldiers and Marines together with Afghan government officials meet with the governor of Wardak province in the Maydan Shahr district center, Afghanistan, Oct. 17, 2009. (U.S. Army photo by Sgt. Teddy Wade/Released)

Lattif Obeidi Ayada, the mayor of Ramadi, and U.S. Navy Rear Adm. Kathleen M. Dussault, the commander of Joint Contracting Command Iraq/Afghanistan, listen to Sarwa Al Dulaimi during a women's conference at the Sunni Endowment building in Ramadi, Iraq, Aug. 3, 2008.