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Jirga

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Noun1.Jirga - a Pashto term for a decision making assembly of male elders; "most criminal cases are handled by a tribal Jirga rather than by laws or police"
Pashto, Pashtu, Paxto, Afghani, Afghan - an Iranian language spoken in Afghanistan and Pakistan; the official language of Afghanistan
council - a meeting of people for consultation; "emergency council"
Loya Jirga - a grand council or grand assembly used to resolve political conflicts or other national problems; "he convened a Loya Jirga that persuaded tribal leaders to acquiesce"


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The very traditional, very conservative, very Muslim society even set aside 25 percent of the seats in the Wolesi Jirga, or lower house of parliament, for women and wrote protections guaranteeing women's equal status into the new constitution.
The Pashtun factor: is Afghanistan next in line for an ethnic civil ... by Consolatore, Daniel / The Humanist
An Emergency Loya Jirga and subsequent Constitutional Loya Jirga were followed by presidential elections last October.
A tale of three cities by Thomson, John R. / The National Interest
In 2002," Margolis continues, "the CIA got its Afghan 'asset,' Hamid Karzai, nominated president through a loya jirga that seemed to many as rigged as the one that promoted Najibullah.
A familiar story in forgotten Afghanistan by The New American
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