loya

If I just focus myself or just confine my comments to the theater for which I'm responsible, can you imagine that we would have in an interview with people on the street in February, found one out of 10 who would give us any chance of being where we are today, a process that the Afghans ran themselves called the loya jirga.

CNN Transcript Sep 11, 2002 2002

"We believe that the agreement was already designed by the Americans and only used the name of loya jirga to announce it," it said in a statement.

Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion 2011

Kabul also intends to seek an entente with Government, Tribal and Taliban leaders though calling a loya jirga or tribal council and immediately sought to find a mediator with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.

Foreign Affairs Roundup 2010

Kabul also intends to seek an entente with Government, Tribal and Taliban leaders though calling a loya jirga or tribal council and immediately sought to find a mediator with the Taliban in Saudi Arabia or Pakistan.

Christopher Herbert and Victoria Kataoka: Foreign Affairs Roundup 2010

In 2005, nearly a century after the last czar and nearly sixty years after the last viceroy, Hamid Karzai, who bore the title but not the power of president, had the impossible task of governing Afghanistan through a traditional gathering of tribes known as the loya jirga.

The Great Experiment Strobe Talbott 2008

And later, at what might have been a tame reception at the U.S. embassy, Ambassador Craig Stapleton (ph) convened what one Democrat could only describe as a loya jirga on the lawn, where Quodria and the other women insisted that Afghan prisoners being held at Guantanamo Bay be transferred to Afghan prisons.

CNN Transcript Jun 16, 2006 2006

It may not be called the loya jirgah, and it won't be.

CNN Transcript Apr 7, 2003 2003

It is an interim period during which it is hoped and expected that a new, bigger, broader-based, ethnically broader-based government will be formed that will likely take the shape of a grand council known as a loya jerga.

CNN Transcript Dec 22, 2001 2001

Karzai's remarks opened a four-day traditional meeting called a loya jirga where nearly 2,000 leaders from around the country have converged to discuss relations with the USA and possible reconciliation talks with an insurgency against Karzai's elected government.

USATODAY.com News 2011

The German assessment was that Mr Karzai would start his bid for reform by calling a loya Jirga, or grand council of tribal elders, to give him their blessing.

Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph Alex Spillius 2011