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Chris -- 2018-04-11
‘Loya jirga’ is a Pashto phrase for a grand assembly or council wherein matters of state are decided. The association with law and lawyers is natural. Rare.
I think they should stage a vast lawyer jirga, loosely modelled on the one that has just been put on in Afghanistan …
www.buzzle.com/editorials/6-22-2002-20859.asp
“Women comprised 12 percent of the emergency lawyer-jirga.†The lawyer-jirga is the lawmaking body in Afghanistan.
www.worldnewspaperpublishing.com/news/F … =TTW&ID…
I believe the “lawyer jirga” (sp?) conducted established a rough set of rules as to the way the country was to be run …
www.defencetalk.com/forums/archive/inde … -8942.html
Today’s blast came as elections \ taking place for five southern provinces to choose delegates for the lawyer jirga or ground assembly …
bbs.putclub.com/index.php?showtopic=33361
They’re going to have their constitutional lawyer jerga starting this month. But they need more security also. And that’s where NATO comes in. ...
www.votesmart.org/speech_detail.php?sc_id=99348&keyword
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Beautiful! It didn’t take long to bend that one into a recognizable shape.
News filtering out of Afghanistan indicates that the Jirgas may be just too loyal. 100’s of legit hits.
King Karzai Hamid Karzai has survived his inauguration for a second term as Afghanitan’s president, and has spoken like a King: he has promised to end graft, appoint a clean cabinet, kick private security companies out of his nation within two years and a drawdown of foreign troops within five. He’s also promised a loyal jirga to help reconcile the various factions within his fractured country.
Here are the roundtrippers, each with more than 20 legit hits. “Lawyal” people follow the laws of friendship?
Forum comment My exboyfriend was the same way. He was extremely selfish, a user and not lawyal. I find that men who don’t want cell phones have the same characteristics as my ex and are usually involved in some thing low down and dirty
Customer book review But his new Love a Actress of his mark,threatens his lawyalty to the Mob.
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