Sentence examples for a jirga from inspiring English sources

After a muted start, the atmosphere of the gathering, called a jirga, was determinedly positive by the end.

The women's center has also sought his help with two clients who wanted to resolve disputes through a jirga.

The traditional consultative meeting of some 2,500 Afghans, known as a jirga, will be held in Kabul.

A jirga is the traditional forum for discussing and resolving disputes, part parliament, part court of law.

A jirga, or tribal council, which had gone to meet militants at an undisclosed location near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border on Thursday, returned with little to show.

Mr. Karzai and General Musharraf are expected to meet this week at a jirga, an assembly of leaders from their nations.

Mr. Karzai laid down no such conditions, and the traditions governing such a meeting, known as a jirga, give him wide latitude about whom to invite.

KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai's peace council, called a jirga, came under fire from inside and out on its first day Wednesday.

Mr. Karzai's office announced the resignations in a brief statement that listed the security lapses at the peace council, known as a jirga, as the cause.

In a few months, a loya jirga, a traditional assembly of various Afghan groups, is to meet and choose a more permanent government.

That was for discussion this week in Kabul, at a loya jirga, a grand council of 2,000 leading Afghans.