How To Use Jirga In A Sentence
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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.
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most criminal cases are handled by a tribal Jirga rather than by laws or police
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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
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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.
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He has been widely criticised for handpicking allies to attend the jirga and deliberately excluding voices of dissent.
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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.
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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.
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In the villages it is not Taliban officials who decide local issues but jirgas, small councils of village elders whose rulings are highly respected.
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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.
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After the welcoming ceremony, he spoke at the jirga - the council of elders - which met inside the village mosque.
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A Loya Jirga, a sort of representative national assembly summoned to sanction a draft new constitution, seemed to have been unimpressed.
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he convened a Loya Jirga that persuaded tribal leaders to acquiesce
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Despite the concerns, Western officials -- who generally do not back the idea of dealmaking with top Taliban leaders -- lined up this week to support the peace jirga.
For Karzai, Afghan peace meeting is key chance to regain political legitimacy
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The elders, one with a hennaed beard, one wearing an Afghan Pakol hat, one a turban, another a sheepskin Jinnah cap, make the gathering seem like a jirga in Afghanistan.
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Mr Karzai is stopping in the UK on the way back from a week of talks with the Obama administration in the US, ahead of a peace gathering - or "jirga" - to be held in his country at the end of this month and the Kabul Conference on July 20.
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A national peace conference - or "jirga" - in May was shaken by
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The Pushtun tradition also includes the convening of the tribal council also known as jirga to resolve major issues.
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Yesterday, after 36 hours of volatile discussions, a jirga or traditional council, including 100 different groups had reached a fragile agreement.
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The birdlike ex-King seemed a little feeble to be chairing a meeting as difficult and volatile as the loya jirga was likely to be.
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It is more often bestowed by a jirga on merit.
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A national peace conference - or "jirga" - in May was shaken by a rocket attack and gun battles with militants.
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This has happened not only with jirga law - giving both accountability and power to tribal elders - but on a larger scale with Islamic law and practice.
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If they did not, the peace "jirga" - the name for a traditional Afghan assembly of elders - would still go ahead and focus on how to bring insurgents into talks and end the conflict,
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