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First reported 15 hours ago - Updated 4 hours ago - 1 reports

4th round of talks on Afghan-US security pact to begin soon

Kabul (BNA) Afghanistan’s foreign affairs ministry has announced that the 4th and final round of talks over Kabul-Washington security treaty would begin soon and the people of Afghanistan would be taken into confidence in a Jirga before signing the agreement. ... [Published Bakhtar News Agency - 15 hours ago]

Entities: Afghanistan, Security, Kabul, jirga, Military/Armed Forces

First reported 22 hours ago - Updated 22 hours ago - 1 reports

Restricted mobility: ‘Reopen Pak-Afghan border’

GHALLANAI:Chief of a peace committee, Malik Sultan Mohmand of the Baizai tribe, on Tuesday demanded the reopening of the Pak-Afghan border for local tribesmen.Addressing a jirga in Ghallanai, Mohmand Agency, Sultan said Khwazai and Baizai tribes living ... [Published The Express Tribune - 22 hours ago]

Entities: jirga, Tribe, Peshawar

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Wolesi Jirga summons Zakhilwal once again

Abdul Zuhoor QayomiKABUL: Wolesi Jirga or Lower House of the parliament on Monday decided to re-summon the Finance Minister Hazrat Omer Zakhilwal.The decision was taken when the finance minister denied appearing before the house and present documents ... [Published Afghanistan Times - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: jirga, Abdul Zahir, Allegation

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Killing of polio workers slammed

MARDAN: Amn Jirga on Monday organised a protest walk to condemn the terror incidents in Balochistan and the killing of anti-polio workers in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. Led by Amn Jirga Chairman Syed Kamal Shah, the protesters started the walk from the College ... [Published The News International - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Polio, jirga, Workers

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

Mehsud IDPs: Tribesmen threaten protests if ration not resumed

DERA ISMAIL KHAN: A jirga was convened on Monday to discuss the internally displaced Mehsud tribesmen’s demand for provision of ration till June 20.The jirga, comprising elders of the tribe, met Member National Assembly Maulana Jamalud Din Mehsud and ... [Published The Express Tribune - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: South Waziristan, jirga, Protest, Dera Ismail Khan (Pakistan), Disaster Management

First reported Jun 18 2013 - Updated Jun 18 2013 - 1 reports

WJ Once again Summons Zakhilwal

KABUL - A majority of Wolesi Jirga or lower house members on Monday voted to once again summon Finance Minister Hazrat Omar Zakhilwal after he did not appear before the house to explain his allegations against six MPs.Previously when the house summoned ... [Published Daily Outlook - Jun 18 2013]

Entities: Omar ZAKHILWAL, jirga, Allegation, Mohammad Azim, Zahir Qadir

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

Hamid Karzai

Afghan women lose political power as fears grow for the future

By Miriam Arghandiwal and Abdul Aziz IbrahimiKABUL, June 17 (Reuters) - A legal requirement that women make up at least a quarter of all provincial elected officials was quietly removed by conservative male parliamentarians, officials said, the latest ... [Published TrustLaw - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Hamid Karzai, Taliban, Afghanistan, Hamid Shalizi, Noor Mohammad Noor

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

TTP commander killed in Peerabad

A local commander of the banned Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan was shot dead on Sunday in a drive-by shooting in Peerabad, police said.Sher Alam Mehsud, 40, the TTP deputy commander of Kunwari Colony, was sitting outside his house when two assailants on a ... [Published The News International - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: jirga, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, Wali Ur Rehman, Drive-By Shooting, Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan

First reported Jun 17 2013 - Updated Jun 17 2013 - 1 reports

TTP man among 10 shot dead in Karachi

KARACHI - At least ten people, including a commander of Tehreek-e-Taliban Pakistan, were shot dead in separate acts of violence in Karachi on Sunday.A TTP operative was gunned down outside his house in Kunwari Colony. Sher Alam aka Shera was vice commander ... [Published The Nation Pakistan - Jun 17 2013]

Entities: Karachi, Police, Abbasi Shaheed Hospital, jirga, Autopsy

First reported Jun 15 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 3 reports

Karzai wants UK to explain drone strikes

KABUL: An increasingly assertive President Hamid Karzai on Thursday asked Britain to explain its drone campaign in Afghanistan.At a meeting with the visiting British defence secretary at the Presidential Palace in Kabul, Karzai questioned which agreement ... [Published Afghanistan Times - Jun 15 2013]

Entities: Kabul, Hamid Karzai, Drone, Afghanistan

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 15 2013 - 2 reports

Karzai against drone attacks, supports Nawaz Sharif's stand

KABUL: Afghan President Hamid Karzai says he is against drones and agrees with Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s stand against drone strikes.The Afghan president was speaking to the host of Geo News’ program Jirga in Kabul, where Karzai stated that the issue ... [Published The News International - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: Hamid Karzai, Drone, Muhammad Nawaz Sharif

First reported Jun 14 2013 - Updated Jun 14 2013 - 1 reports

Jirgas slap fines on warring tribes

SUKKUR, June 13: Two jirgas held in villages near Tangwani town in Kandhkot-Kashmore district on Thursday settled disputes between warring tribes by imposing heavy penalties on those found guilty by jirga organisers.A jirga was held in Saleh Banglani ... [Published DAWN Group - Jun 14 2013]

Entities: jirga, Dur Mohammad, Tribe

Quotes

"Some groups in Kabul are working and talking about national consensus before next presidential elections to keep the country from plunging into a new political chaos" Ahadi said

Ahadi named to run for president [Published Afghanistan Times - Jun 18 2013]

"It's undemocratic to grant a seat to a woman even though a man had more votes, simply because the law favours her" said Qazi Nasir Ahmad Hanafi, head of the legislative commission. (Editing by Hamid Shalizi, Dylan Welch and Ron Popeski)

Afghan women lose political power as fears grow for the future [Published TrustLaw - Jun 17 2013]

"Within few days, the fourth round of talks about the Afghan-US Security Agreement will take place in Kabul. It seems that this time the agreement will be finalized and we will discuss it with the people of Afghanistan at a Jirga" Janan Mosazai said

Afghan-US Security Agreement Talks to Begin in Few Days: MoFA [Published Daily Outlook - Jun 16 2013]

The government’s efforts to identify and assist the poorest families in difficult winter times were equally commendable, Saum said, adding: "We are happy to continue supporting Afghanistan’s efforts to manage its social safety net programmes more efficiently, so that poor people can better withstand economic and weather-related hardships and benefit from economic growth.” (PAN)"

World Bank OKs $12.5m grant for Afghan pension schemes [Published Afghanistan Times - Jun 15 2013]

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