Word: panchayats
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...walking with his lover, an older girl from the more powerful caste. According to police, the girl's uncles kidnapped Shakoor, beat him up, sodomized him and held him captive in a family compound. The next day, Shakoor's uncle tried to get him released by proposing a formal panchayat. A council was formed by three members of each clan group. After hearing testimony it came to a decision: that Shakoor should marry his girlfriend, and one Tatla girl should be given to a Mastoi son for marriage, along with a parcel of land. The Mastois didn't feel that...
...Nepal is a democracy at least in name. Using the official state terminology, Shah calls it a "partiless democracy"--partiless because every political figure serves the King, a democracy because every citizen indirectly elects a local, regional and state-wide panchayat (council) representative. But in the constitution and in practice, the sole voice of authority is the King, the most revered of all national traditions, even more than the Hinduism professed by 90 per cent of the population...
...national referendum, (the first direct country-wide vote in two decades, and only the second in Nepal's history) to determine if the people like the existing partiless system. In the meantime, the government is doing some politicking of its own: at a recent pro-partiless rally, a panchayat minister declared that "The supreme objective of the multi-party system is to capture power whereas that of the partiless panchayat system is to promote national welfare and respect...
...huge President's House at Karachi and wrote the outline for his "basic democracies," which are intended "to begin at the beginning and, after building a strong, democratic base, to construct the structure above." What emerged was a political system based on the ancient institution of the village panchayat (council of elders). Each council, with elected as well as appointed representatives, will represent 10,000 people. Working without salaries, council members will be expected to levy local taxes, maintain roads, operate police forces, register births and deaths, and handle some 30 other jobs, from the promotion of sports...
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