Now ex-king Zahir Shah is the focus for calls for a new Loya Jirga.
And I think that the peace jirga will allow for a framework to then move forward.
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But since any proposal has nonetheless to be approved by the loya jirga, there could be surprises.
No one would serve in both the interim government and the commission choosing the loya jirga, he added.
He said that he would call a loya jirga - a national gathering - to discuss the issue.
The uncles have been arrested and released on bail, while police are searching for the other five jirga members.
He has been attempting to convene a Loya Jirga - tribal council - for the re-establishment of order in Afghanistan.
For all its shortcomings, though, most Afghans still seem to consider the loya jirga as a step in the right direction.
Though all parties, including the Taleban, would be invited to the proposed Loya Jirga, it's extremely doubtful whether the Taleban leadership would attend.
Her husband's uncles were allegedly entrusted with the case but instead of informing police or getting her medically examined, they called a jirga.
Mr Qureshi said police found the fine imposed by the jirga had been paid but had not reached Ms Bano or her husband.
Seven hundred people from both Afghanistan and Pakistan will participate in a big convention, or loya jirga, as we call it in Afghanistan.
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan has voiced its concern about intimidation that it believes is designed to disrupt the loya jirga.
Given the past history of intense rivalries in Afghanistan, it is a big question, of course, whether even a Loya Jirga could find a consensus.
Mr Karzai has announced that a loya jirga, a traditional grand gathering of the country's power-brokers, will be convened to decide on the Americans' future.
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Enough happened at the jirga, then, to begin a formal dialogue over the turbulent border regions, and a follow-up gathering was agreed, to take place in Pakistan.
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Each commission will consist of scholars, "neutral and benevolent people", two members of the commission for the convocation of the loya jirga, UN representatives and international observers.
Many Pushtuns were hoping that the loya jirga, the grand council that nominated a new government in June, would produce a rebalancing of the cabinet's ethnic composition.
Its influence may first be felt in the Loya Jirga, which may have to decide how much of Afghanistan's security and rehabilitation should be entrusted to outsiders.
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The council is supposed to convene a gathering of tribal leaders and other notables called a Loya Jirga, which in turn is to choose an interim government.
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On the related subject of Afghan-led peace and reconciliation efforts, I appreciated the President sharing his plans for the upcoming consultative peace jirga -- an important milestone that America supports.
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We also discussed the peace process and the upcoming peace consultative jirga in Kabul, for which, Mr. President, I am grateful to you for your support and very kind advice.
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Hamid Karzai, the president, said he would convene a loya jirga, a formal conclave of tribal elders, to discuss sensitive questions raised by America's plan to withdraw its forces by 2014.
But even if new laws are ratified by the mainly male constitutional Loya Jirga (grand assembly) that will consider the document, there is some doubt the measures will be enforced, correspondents say.
When they fail, the maliks must produce the culprit, his guilt attested by a tribal jirga, or council, for punishment by the PA (until recently up to 14 years in prison with no appeal).
The interim administration would be in power for six months, or until a special commission could convene an initial, emergency loya jirga, or traditional Afghan council, U.N. spokesman Ahmad Fawzi told reporters on Sunday.
In a remote tribal community near the Khyber Pass, where no governmental jurisdiction reaches, Peerzada portrays the work of the jirga - a 5, 000-year-old tradition in which all the villagers gather to make laws.
He attended and held the peace jirga there.
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They spent two days picking 6, 000 names from cardboard boxes to fix the order in which candidates would appear on ballot papers for the 249-seat Wolesi Jirga (lower house of parliament) and for 34 provincial councils.
And the jirga, the peace consultative jirga is intended for consulting the Afghan people, taking their advice on how and through which means and which speed should the Afghan government proceed in the quest for peace.
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