Jirga in a sentence

Other recent clashes in July and September killed dozens of people and ended only after a jirga, or tribal council called a ceasefire.

Peshawar: After days of violent clashes in Kurram district of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, a temporary ceasefire has been brokered between rival groups following efforts by a government jirga.

The Jirga expressed full confidence in the Chief Minister’s commitment for the repatriation of the displaced persons and lauded his leading role in resolving the issue of October 11, peacefully.

But a Loya Jirga called last week, decided to release them and Ghani accepted.

But Chairman of the High Council for National Reconciliation, Abdullah Abdullah recently said that if it was necessary, change in the amendment of the constitutions was possible as stated in the resolution of National Grand Assembly (Loya-Jirga).

He referred to the recent approvals of the Loya Jirga (the grand tribal council) in Afghanistan to establish peace, and underlined the necessity for paving the ground for holding Afghan-Afghan talks with the aim of reaching an agreement.

Keeping the prisoners went against the wishes of a loya jirga that gathered in Kabul last month.

Besides serving Afghanistan as its first ever President after the fall of former Soviet Union backed regime of late Dr. Najibullah, Prof. Mujaddedi had also led the Mashrano Jirga as its chairman and High Peace Commission.

Daudzai, who is also head of High Peace Council secretariat, said the members of convening Loya Jirga for peace would not represent government, and it would be held freely without any kind of influence.

Sindh Information Minister Saeed Ghani on Tuesday criticised the media for having “reported without any verification” that Gul Sama — a minor girl from Dadu — had been “stoned to death” over an alleged jirga verdict.

According to reports, the premier is scheduled to arrive in Miranshah to hold meetings with a Jirga comprising tribal elders from North and South Waziristan.

A new constitution backed by a loya jirga was promulgated in February 1977, but failed to satisfy all political factions.

As the Taliban's power grew, decisions were made by Mullah Omar without consulting the jirga and without consulting other parts of the country.

At the same time the 25-year-old Ahmad Khan was busy in Afghanistan calling for a loya jirga ("grand assembly") to select a leader among his people.

First, at the district and municipal level, traditional shura councils met to pick electors—persons who cast ballots for Loya Jirga delegates.

However, as the Taliban's power grew, decisions were made by Mullah Omar without consulting the jirga and without Omar's visiting other parts of the country.

However he was obliged to publicly step aside at the behest of the United States as many of the delegates to the Loya Jirga were prepared to vote for Zahir Shah and block the US-backed Hamid Karzai.

In 1985 the Loya Jirga was reconvened.

In late 2000, Massoud officially brought together this new alliance in a meeting in Northern Afghanistan to discuss, among other things, "a Loya Jirga, or a traditional council of elders, to settle political turmoil in Afghanistan".

The decision making process of the Taliban in Kandahar was modeled on the Pashtun tribal council ( jirga ), together with what was believed to be the early Islamic model.