Tag: Jirga

The Taliban in Afghanistan have published what they claim is a top secret government security plan for a landmark assembly of tribal elders expected...

Afghan President Hamid Karzai said on Monday that he planned to hold a traditional assembly, or loya jirga, to decide the country’s peace strategy...

The Jirga system should be reformed to protect rights of women and children, tribal affairs’ experts agreed on Thursday. During a session on ‘Reforming the...

Awami National Party’s veteran leader and former federal minister Afzal Khan Lala on Thursday proposed holding a Pakhtun qaumi jirga to deliberate on how...

Since Afghan President Hamid Karzai’s announcement to convene a meeting of the traditional Loya Jirga to discuss and decide the terms for US forces...

The members of traditional tribal jirga Sunday told Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Barrister Masud Kausar that the militants associated with Haqqani network and Tehrik Taliban...

The Para Chamkani tribesmen of Kurram Agency Tuesday said terrorism was a global issue and could be uprooted only if Pakistan, US and Afghanistan...

PESHAWAR/ISLAMABAD - In less than 24 hours after the release of CIA contractor Raymond Davis, US drones on Thursday targeted a tribal jirga in North Waziristan Agency's Datta Khel tehsil, killing 41 and injuring 15.
Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Governor Syed Masood Kausar accused the US of targeting the tribal jirga and killing several delegates and personnel of the tribal militia, the Khasadar Force. "I strongly condemn this drone attack. A tribal jirga was targeted in which several

PESHAWAR: Mehsud tribal elders seem disappointed over what they say is a 'cold shoulder' response from the political authorities of South Waziristan Agency. They say the authorities are not fulfilling their commitments to provide financial assistance to returning displaced people.
A meeting of All FATA Mehsud Jirga is being convened today (Monday) to review the situation followed by a protest rally. Members of the jirga visited the area the other day and expressed dissatisfaction

QUETTA: The Awami National Party (ANP) has suggested convening grand jirga of Pashtoon tribes for evolving a future course of action to block terrorism.
The suggestion came from ANP leaders, Balochistan Chief Organizer Arbab Abdul Zahir Kashi and Dr Inayatullah Kasi when they were attending the condolence reference of first death anniversary of ANP leader Azizullah Mama Advocate at Quetta Press Club on Friday.
They said that Pashtoons were being assassinated in Afghanistan,

PESHAWAR: Prof Dr Ajmal Khan is a respectable educationist and apolitical person who should be freed by Taliban on purely humanitarian grounds without attaching any conditions or his family members, friends and politicians of Charsadda should be directly contacted.
This was stated by Family members, friends, well-wishers of Dr Ajmal and prominent political figures from Charsadda at a jirga held at Marhwand, a small native town of Dr Ajmal Khan, on Tuesday to express solidarity