Jirga

How To Use Jirga In A Sentence

• The new minister is openly defending the interests of the Pashtun society and believes that the external fighting being waged from the border areas and Afghanistan can be settled through traditional "jirga" (negotiations) that bring together the government, elders and clerics and civil society. Pakistan Shifts the War on Terrorism
• most criminal cases are handled by a tribal Jirga rather than by laws or police
• PESHAWAR: Grand Jirga of Haleemzai tribe belongs to Mohmand Agency, fedrally administered tribal area, situated in north of Peshawar, capital of North West Frontier Province held today. Mohmand tribal jirga met Governor NWFP
• At a jirga with the tribal elders on Friday, political administration officials, including Khaar political tehsildar Mawaz Khan Afridi and Arsalarzai political tehsildar Adalat Khan, warned that people involved in disturbing the peace would be dealt with strictly. Taliban Declare Govt in Bajaur Agency, Tribal Areas
• He has been widely criticised for handpicking allies to attend the jirga and deliberately excluding voices of dissent. Times, Sunday Times
• It is a consultative jirga with tribal and government leaders that had been scheduled before the Washington meetings, but was delayed until after this visit, Holbrooke said.
• The Afghan shura serves as a forum for women in the community to discuss their concerns and needs, just as a ‘jirga’ serves as an assembly of elder men to solve problems within the community.
• In the villages it is not Taliban officials who decide local issues but jirgas, small councils of village elders whose rulings are highly respected.
• Some diplomats have also detected a coolness in Mr Obama towards a planned "consultative peace jirga", essentially a large meeting, to be held in May, of national representatives.
• After the welcoming ceremony, he spoke at the jirga - the council of elders - which met inside the village mosque.