Loya Jirga

Afghan National Assembly Backs U.S. Security Pact

AP | AMIR SHAH and RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 01.19.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai received a resounding endorsement Saturday from a traditional national assembly to negotiate a secur...

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Afghanistan Holds Controversial Grand Council Meeting

AP | By RAHIM FAIEZ | Posted 01.16.2012

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KABUL, Afghanistan -- Insurgents fired two rockets Thursday toward a site where more than 2,000 Afghan elders are attending a national assembly to dis...

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Bad Show

Nick Mills | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nick Mills

What are we to make of the latest episodes in the far-too-long-running soap opera that is the government of Afghanistan? And why can't we, as the ch...

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Let's not forget that warlords were brought into the Afghan Government by the Bush Administration in 2001

Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Fitzgerald and Elizabeth Gould

According to a March 16 Reuters article by Peter Graff titled Afghanistan confirms blanket pardon for war crimes, www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62F2...

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Vision of a State: Ultra-Federalism in Afghanistan

Mike Signer | Posted 05.25.2011

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Mike Signer

An ultra-federalist culture would constantly seek to discover and bridge gaps between local systems for administering justice and the official machinery of the state courts.

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Call a Jirga Not a Runoff in Afghanistan

Patricia DeGennaro | Posted 05.25.2011

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Patricia DeGennaro

If the U.S. and international community are serious about this intervention and having any kind of political success (and less war) in Afghanistan, it should call a Loya Jirga, or a "grand assembly".

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Can the UN Save Afghanistan?

Stephen Schlesinger | Posted 05.25.2011

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Stephen Schlesinger

Given the UN's extraordinary and continuing role in Afghanistan, it would seem appropriate at this time that it might consider guiding President Obama toward a resolution of the dilemma he now faces.

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A Hidden Denial in the Afghan Election

Paul Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011

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Paul Fitzgerald

U.S. missteps in Afghanistan stretch back to the Bush administration's decision to court the warlords.

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Withdraw from Afghanistan with a Public, Negotiated Timetable

Robert Naiman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Robert Naiman

A timetable for withdrawal should be a core provision of an agreement negotiated by the United States with the Afghan government.

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