jirga

Now our voice is being heard, because of the jirga.

At the peace jirga, about 23% of the participants were women.

The people have to accept the decision made by the jirga.

One hour and a half later, the jirga announced it would not take the girl.

The response from the local male jirga was less surprising.

The session of the first female jirga is going on.

After listening to both sides the jirga then comes to a decision.

Among the dead were four Jirga members and one militant, the report said.

He sat on the third of the Jirga's ten committees.

Now - and it's coming about in your plans later this month for the peace jirga.

Another said: "The jirga is good because now finally women have someone to champion their cause."

It was the place of jirga, and main political center during the tribal period.

A list of more than 76 demands was read out at the jirga's conclusion.

When we asked some of the local men their views on the women's jirga, the results were surprising.

And then there are others who tried to blow up the peace jirga.

"My mission would be to expose the true nature of the Jirga from within it"

Fifty people were killed, including members of a traditional tribal jirga.

All had come to secure the area in advance of the peace meeting, or jirga.

And also, as the reconciliation movement is going on, the peace jirga, what role the woman has been given so far?

Since then, a new hardened structure has been built at the jirga site.

Before the jirga husbands could do whatever they wanted to their wives.

He calls for a National Jirga to bring peace quickly.

"He was ready to go to the peace jirga," one senior Afghan official said.

The soldiers are still being held, despite government efforts to free them through a grand assembly, or jirga.

Cases are referred to the jirga by affiliated women throughout the region.