10 Facts About Loya jirga

From Amanullah until the reign of Mohammed Zahir Shah and Mohammed Daoud Khan the Loya jirga was recognized as a common meeting of regional Pashtun leaders.

The Loya jirga then considers the case and, after it discusses the matter, it comes to a decision about how to handle it, which the mediator then announces.

Loya jirga was gathered by Mirwais Hotak in Shari Safa near Kandahar in 1709.

In September 1928, a jirga was called by King Amanullah at Paghman near Kabul, the third loya jirga of his reign to discuss reforms, during which King Amanullah asked Queen Soraya to remove her veil in order to gain support for his modernizing policies.

The loya jirga was organized by the interim administration of Hamid Karzai, with about 1,600 delegates, some of the delegates were selected during elections which were held in various regions of the country, and other delegates were selected by members of various political, cultural, and religious groups.

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On 14 December 2003, a 502-delegate loya jirga was convened in Kabul to consider the proposed Afghan Constitution.

On June 21,1947, in Bannu, a loya jirga was held consisting of Bacha Khan, his brother Chief Minister Dr Khan Sahib, the Khudai Khidmatgars, members of the Provincial Assembly, Mirzali Khan, and other tribal chiefs, just seven weeks before the Partition of India.

The loya jirga declared the Bannu Resolution, which demanded that the Pashtuns be given a choice to have an independent state of Pashtunistan composing all Pashtun territories of British India, instead of being made to join either India or Pakistan.

The tradition of Loya jirga has been adopted by Muslims in the Kashmir valley of Indian-administered Kashmir.

Basit Mahmood criticizes the bill's provisions allowing the government to appoint "neutrals" to each Loya jirga not being sufficient since the so-called "neutrals", who must approve their verdicts would most likely be consisting of retired judges and religious scholars of conservative nature and that will put principle of neutrality upside down and with a substantially effect on the lives of women across the Pakistan.