Word: loya
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...announced in Bonn that an agreement had been signed creating a 30-member council to rule Afghanistan for the next six months. The council contains members of the four major ethnic groups and, incredibly, two women. The council is only temporary—in six months a loya jirga, an ancient Afghani constituent assembly, will meet in order to draft a constitution, plan elections and start forming another interim government...
...German town of Koenigswinter between four rival Afghan factions. It took some dramatic arm twisting and a promise of $20 billion in reconstruction aid to broker the deal in which Karzai will lead a 30-member interim cabinet that will govern for six months before a broadly-representative 'loya jirga' assembly is convened. The agreement also provides for an international security force to be deployed in Kabul, despite earlier opposition from elements of the Northern Alliance...
...talks that began Tuesday in Koenigswinter are aimed at finding agreement among various Afghan factions over some form of transitional g overnment to replace the Taliban - and avert a slide back into the civil war of the pre-Taliban era. Such a government would convene a broadly representative 'loya jirga' grand assembly within six months to discuss how the country ought to be ruled, and conduct national elections within two years...
...Taliban regime fall to put in a government that's going to be decent, but the only way that's going to happen is if women are brought to the negotiating table in a very large and meaningful way. At the moment there are no women on the loya jirga that's trying to form in exile and that's a huge mistake. There are competent, educated, amazing Afghan women around the world living in exile who need to be brought back and have their voices heard and they need to be making policy. The men in Afghanistan...
...opposition pounded Taliban lines north of Kabul, more than 1,000 tribal elders, former mujahedin and other Afghan exiles assembled in Peshawar, Pakistan to discuss the post-Taliban era. The assembly agreed to invite the exiled king, Mohammed Zahir Shah, to play a moderating role and call a loya jirga, a grand council, to shape the country?s future government. But in a sign of the difficulty of building consensus, the king did not send an envoy and the Northern Alliance was not represented...