Musharraf 'to join Afghan jirga'

[Eugene]

Source: BBC News

Last Updated: Sunday, 12 August 2007, 07:19 GMT 08:19 UK

Musharraf 'to join Afghan jirga'

Pakistan's President Pervez Musharraf has arrived in Afghanistan
to attend the final session of a "peace jirga", or tribal council,
officials say.

Gen Musharraf is expected to address 700 tribal leaders from both
countries and he is also due to have talks with Afghan President
Hamid Karzai.

Correspondents say there was disappointment when he failed to
appear at Thursday's opening session.

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The BBC's Charles Haviland in Kabul says the jirga is set to issue
a statement calling for the elimination of terrorism.

It will also call on the Afghan government to reach out to the
Taleban whilst also recommending that more is done to promote
economic development in the border region.

-snip-

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6942716.stm

[MADem]

1. I wonder if he was afraid of a coup, or some other reason, and that's why he delayed.

Maybe security at the Jirga wasn't up to par...and that's why he took his time.

[WCGreen]

2. Of course he was all atwiter about Obama's statements...

We know the rest of the world is mesmerized by our political process...


:sarcasm:

[MADem]

3. Well, I wasn't thinking in the context of events here at all. But there

are stories of trouble out that way, between the radical military leaders and other actors who are unhappy with Pervez's progress. And they're serious. He hasn't been able to jail all his enemies.

But like I've said, live by the sword, die by the sword. Live by the coup, die by the coup...

He started it up, after all...

[0007]

5. WTF!! New terms and new ways.....where's the Pope?

http://www.dawn.com/2007/08/12/top10.htm

The United States played a key role in arranging a jirga of Pakistani and Afghan tribal chiefs, which began in Kabul on Thursday. The decision to hold such a jirga was held at an iftar-dinner President George W. Bush hosted for President Musharraf and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai in September last year as part of his efforts to remove differences between the two neighbouring states.

President Musharraf’s decision to stay away from the jirga – announced in Islamabad on Wednesday -– alarmed Washington as US officials feared it could further exasperate already tense relations between two key allies in the fight against terrorism.

[MADem]

6. Yeah, they like using jirga, but they don't have the same fondness for majlis, for some reason! NT

[xchrom]

4. what happened to being skeert of obama?

[bemildred]

7. I think Mushhead got spanked. nt

[0007]

8. bttft

[ohio2007]

9. Musharraf puts his foot down,Taliban take his soldiers hostage

Militants demand swap of captives

TANK, Aug 11: Militants in the South Waziristan Agency have demanded release of 10 of their colleagues, taken prisoner by security forces, in exchange for 15 paramilitary personnel said to have been kidnapped on Thursday, according to a tribal elder.

The elder, who held talks with the militants to persuade them to release 15 personnel of the Frontier Corps (FC), confided to Dawn that they had handed over to the authorities a list of 10 prisoners who were arrested on charges of militancy. However, he did not disclose the names of the prisoners.

snip



http://dawn.com/2007/08/12/top4.htm

seems the Taliban want a say in the Jirga

[saigon68]

10. So he went to see "The Mayor of Kabul"

LOL