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Loya jirga
A loya jirga (Pashto: لويه جرګه, "grand assembly") is a special type of jirga that is mainly organized for choosing a new head of state in case of sudden death, adopting a new constitution, or to settle national or regional issue such as war. It predates modern-day written or fixed-laws and is mostly favored by the Pashtun people but to a lesser extent by other nearby groups that have been influenced by Pashtuns (historically known as Afghans).
In Afghanistan, loya jirgas have been reportedly organized since at least the early 18th century when the Hotaki and Durrani dynasties rose to power.
History
The ancient Aryan tribes, who are hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-Iranian, came down in intermittent waves from Central Asia and Afghanistan. They practiced a sort of jirga-system with two types of councils – simite and sabhā. The simite (the summit) comprised elders and tribal chiefs. The king also joined sessions of the simite. Sabhā was a sort of rural council. In India it is referred to as Samiti and Sabha. The Indian parliament however is divided into Rajya Sabha (Senate) and Lok Sabha (House of Representatives) after the Westminster model. The Panchayat Samiti is instead used for rural councils.
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2003 loya jirga
A 502-delegate loya jirga convened in Kabul, Afghanistan, on December 14, 2003, to consider the proposed Afghan Constitution. Originally planned to last ten days, the assembly did not endorse the charter until January 4, 2004. As has been generally the case with these assemblies, the endorsement came by way of consensus rather than a vote. Afghanistan's last constitution was drafted for the Democratic Republic of Afghanistan in November 1987. Because of strife within the assembly, the 2003 Loya jirga was dubbed, by some Afghans, the "loya jagra" ("big fight").
Drafting the Constitution
The Bonn Agreement of December 2001 required Afghanistan to draft and adopt a new constitution within 2 years. In October 2002, Interim President Hamid Karzai appointed a nine-member Constitutional Drafting Commission, chaired by then Vice-President Nematullah Shahrani. Over the next six months, this body drafted a new constitution, based largely on the 1964 Afghan constitution. The initial draft, written primarily by Abdul Salam Azimi (who would become Chief Justice of Afghanistan's Supreme Court in 2006) was not the subject of in-depth political consultation. In April 2003, Interim President Karzai passed a decree appointing a new 35-member Constitutional Commission and laying out a public consultation process. This commission travelled widely throughout the country and reworked the draft, which was not released to the public until November 2003, only weeks before the Constitutional Convention (Loya Jirga) was scheduled to begin. This process was supported by several international institutions that provided funding, mostly through the UN, and expertise.
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2002 loya jirga
An emergency "loya jirga" (Pashto for "grand assembly") was held in Kabul, Afghanistan between 11 and 19 June 2002 to elect a transitional administration. The loya jirga was called for by the Bonn Agreement. The agreement (designed by Afghan leaders) was drawn up in December 2001 in Germany. Conducted under United Nations auspices, the talks at Bonn sought a solution to the problem of government in Afghanistan after the US ousted the Taliban government.
Preparations
Then-UN Secretary-General, Kofi Annan, announced the composition of the Commission in charge of the loya jirga on 21 January 2002; it was to be chaired by Ismail Qasimyar, a legal and constitutional expert. One of his two deputies was Mahboba Hoqomal, a female lecturer in political science. The commission decided that the Loya Jirga would be open for 1450, of which 1051 would be chosen by an indirect elections. Each district elected 20 people, who then held a secret vote to select one person to represent the whole district. Each of the country's 362 districts had at least one seat, with further seats allotted for every 22,000 people. The commission would reserve another 100 seats for refugees, 25 for nomads, 53 seats for members of the interim administration and the commission and 160 seats for women. It was the first time in the history of Afghanistan that women attended a loya jirga. In May, concern was being expressed that the armed factions in several provinces were influencing the selection of the members of the Loya Jirga and the Commission had received numerous complaints of intimidation and also of violence.
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🇦🇫 Afghanistan holds Loya Jirga to discuss Taliban peace talks | Al Jazeera English
The Afghan government has convened a council of more than 3,000 Afghan leaders to discuss a future with the Taliban as political partners. But the Taliban is deeply suspicious of both organisations and neither they nor the opposition are there. Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis reports from Kabul. - Subscribe to our channel: http://aje.io/AJSubscribe - Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/AJEnglish - Find us on Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/aljazeera - Check our website: https://www.aljazeera.com/ #AlJazeeraEnglish #Afghanistan #Taliban
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Afghan President Agrees To Release Taliban Prisoners On Advice Of Loya Jirga
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, addressing a grand assembly of elders known as the Loya Jirga in Kabul on August 9, said that he will approve the release of 400 jailed Taliban militants. Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/afghan-president-agrees-to-release-taliban-prisoners-on-advice-of-loya-jirga/30774381.html
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Loya Jirga meets on release of 400 Taliban
(8 Aug 2020) For a second day, a traditional council met in Kabul on Saturday to decide whether to release a final 400 Taliban prisoners, the last hurdle to negotiations between Afghanistan’s political leadership and the Taliban. The Kabul-Taliban negotiations are seen as a critical step toward lasting peace in Afghanistan and a roadmap to what the country might look like after decades of war, with the Taliban joining the political mainstream. They would follow a peace deal the insurgents signed with the United States earlier this year and would decide what constitutional changes would be made in a post-war Afghanistan, and how the rights of women and minorities would be protected. On Saturday, Abdullah Abdullah, the council's chairman and head of the Afghan High Council for National R...
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Karzai appoints cabinet and is inuagurated by Loya Jirga
(19 Jun 2002) 1. Karzai getting out of car 2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival 3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard 4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent 5. Wide shot interior loya jirga 6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers 7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan: "Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet." 8. People raising their hands 9. Side view of Karzai at podium 10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage 11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)" 12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony 13. UP...
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Preparations for meeting of Loya Jirga in Kabul
(8 Jun 2002) Kabul - 8 June 2002 1. Afghans in loya jirga tent attending a ceremony to mark handing over of site to loya jirga commission 2. Children carrying large jigsaw piece in shape of one of Afghanistan's provinces, handing it to a member of the commission (two children from each province carried jigsaw shapes that make up Afghanistan jigsaw) 3. Cutaway musicians playing 4. People in ceremonial dress fitting jigsaw piece into Afghanistan jigsaw 5. Wide of ceremony 6. Wide of children in ceremonial dress standing in front of jigsaw, holding hands singing 7. Delegates standing around outside in part of the loya jirga conference compound 8. Various of delegates 9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Wali Mohammed Saidi, Loya jirga delegate "For Afghanistan's future we want to be able to bring...
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Meeting of Afghanistan Loya Jirga
(14 Dec 2003) 1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive 2. Various delegates 3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem 4. Various children singing 5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah: "Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibility that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience." 6. Various delegates 7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai: "Dear country fellows, the draft of the constitution, is very rich, with all the aspects of our history, our religion and our culture being covered in this draft. Also we considered in ...
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Afghanistan Ulema Gathering at Loya Jirga hall | گردهمایی علمای کشور
Thanks for watching Ariana News. Please don’t forget to subscribe to our channel for more International and Afghanistan News, Talk Shows, Interviews, Debates & Breaking News NOW. Ariana News Subscription Link: https://www.youtube.com/ariananewslive?sub_confirmation=1 Ariana News Social Media Channels: #Website: https://www.ariananews.af #YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/ariananewslive?sub_confirmation=1 #Twitter: https://twitter.com/ArianaNews_ #Instagram: https://instagram.com/ariananews.official #TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@ariananews.official #LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/ariananewstv About Ariana News: Ariana News is the largest news network in Afghanistan and operates 24/7. Ariana News is the leading independent news in Afghanistan and currently the nation's mos...
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Taliban holds first loya jirga after capturing Kabul | Afghanistan News | Latest Updates | WION
Reports announced that the Taliban won't make announcements on any new government until the last US troops left Afghanistan. However, the Taliban held the first jirga after capturing Kabul. Nearly 800 Muslim scholars attended the event. #Taliban #LoyaJirga #Afghanistan About Channel: WION -The World is One News, examines global issues with in-depth analysis. We provide much more than the news of the day. Our aim to empower people to explore their world. With our Global headquarters in New Delhi, we bring you news on the hour, by the hour. We deliver information that is not biased. We are journalists who are neutral to the core and non-partisan when it comes to the politics of the world. People are tired of biased reportage and we stand for a globalised united world. So for us the Worl...
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Loya Jirga : Afghan "Grand Assembly" | The Hindu Analysis | UPSC
Loya Jirga : Afghan "Grand Assembly" | The Hindu Analysis | UPSC Topics: 1. What is Loya Jigra? 2. Need for Convening Loya Jirga 3. India’s Interests in Afghanistan Annual Subscription of Sansar DCA - https://www.instamojo.com/sansarlochan/sansar-current-affairs-in-hindi-use-code-ars/?ref=store Join Our Telegram Channel for Extra PDF Material https://telegram.me/sansarlochan ***************** FOLLOW ME ON # INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/sansarlochan # FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/sansarlochan.in # TWITTER - https://twitter.com/sansarlochan # EMAIL (Only Business) - [email protected]
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Rare unrest at Loya Jirga as delegate criticises Jihadi leaders
(17 Dec 2003) 1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room 2. Cutaway women delegates 3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah: "They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history." 4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader: "Please be polite, do not attack other people!" 5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi 5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section 6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari): "They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech) 7. Cutaway Afghan govern...
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🇦🇫 Afghanistan holds Loya Jirga to discuss Taliban peace talks | Al Jazeera English
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The Afghan government has convened a council of more than 3,000 Afghan leaders to discuss a future with the Taliban as political partners.
But the Taliban is de...
The Afghan government has convened a council of more than 3,000 Afghan leaders to discuss a future with the Taliban as political partners.
But the Taliban is deeply suspicious of both organisations and neither they nor the opposition are there.
Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis reports from Kabul.
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The Afghan government has convened a council of more than 3,000 Afghan leaders to discuss a future with the Taliban as political partners.
But the Taliban is deeply suspicious of both organisations and neither they nor the opposition are there.
Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis reports from Kabul.
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Afghan President Agrees To Release Taliban Prisoners On Advice Of Loya Jirga
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, addressing a grand assembly of elders known as the Loya Jirga in Kabul on August 9, said that he will approve the release of 400 ...
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, addressing a grand assembly of elders known as the Loya Jirga in Kabul on August 9, said that he will approve the release of 400 jailed Taliban militants.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/afghan-president-agrees-to-release-taliban-prisoners-on-advice-of-loya-jirga/30774381.html
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, addressing a grand assembly of elders known as the Loya Jirga in Kabul on August 9, said that he will approve the release of 400 jailed Taliban militants.
Originally published at - https://www.rferl.org/a/afghan-president-agrees-to-release-taliban-prisoners-on-advice-of-loya-jirga/30774381.html
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Loya Jirga meets on release of 400 Taliban
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(8 Aug 2020) For a second day, a traditional council met in Kabul on Saturday to decide whether to release a final 400 Taliban prisoners, the last hurdle to neg...
(8 Aug 2020) For a second day, a traditional council met in Kabul on Saturday to decide whether to release a final 400 Taliban prisoners, the last hurdle to negotiations between Afghanistan’s political leadership and the Taliban.
The Kabul-Taliban negotiations are seen as a critical step toward lasting peace in Afghanistan and a roadmap to what the country might look like after decades of war, with the Taliban joining the political mainstream.
They would follow a peace deal the insurgents signed with the United States earlier this year and would decide what constitutional changes would be made in a post-war Afghanistan, and how the rights of women and minorities would be protected.
On Saturday, Abdullah Abdullah, the council's chairman and head of the Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation, said that while discussion "happened in a friendly environment", there are still concerns over the release of prisoners.
Meanwhile the Taliban have rejected the meeting of the council of elders, known as Loya Jirga, claiming it had no legal status.
Since the US-Taliban deal in February, the Taliban have not attacked American and NATO troops, but have continued to wage war on Afghan security forces.
The US and NATO have also begun withdrawing some troops in line with the agreement.
The deal calls on the Taliban to guarantee that Afghanistan will not be used as a staging ground for attacks on the United States or its allies.
The withdrawal of US and NATO troops hinges on the Taliban meeting those commitments and not on a positive outcome to negotiations between the Taliban and Kabul's political leadership.
The deal also called on Kabul to free 5,000 Taliban while the insurgents were to free 1,000 government and military personnel.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has so far freed all but 400 of the Taliban prisoners, insisting on a traditional council to decide their release, saying their crimes were too serious for him to decide on alone.
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(8 Aug 2020) For a second day, a traditional council met in Kabul on Saturday to decide whether to release a final 400 Taliban prisoners, the last hurdle to negotiations between Afghanistan’s political leadership and the Taliban.
The Kabul-Taliban negotiations are seen as a critical step toward lasting peace in Afghanistan and a roadmap to what the country might look like after decades of war, with the Taliban joining the political mainstream.
They would follow a peace deal the insurgents signed with the United States earlier this year and would decide what constitutional changes would be made in a post-war Afghanistan, and how the rights of women and minorities would be protected.
On Saturday, Abdullah Abdullah, the council's chairman and head of the Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation, said that while discussion "happened in a friendly environment", there are still concerns over the release of prisoners.
Meanwhile the Taliban have rejected the meeting of the council of elders, known as Loya Jirga, claiming it had no legal status.
Since the US-Taliban deal in February, the Taliban have not attacked American and NATO troops, but have continued to wage war on Afghan security forces.
The US and NATO have also begun withdrawing some troops in line with the agreement.
The deal calls on the Taliban to guarantee that Afghanistan will not be used as a staging ground for attacks on the United States or its allies.
The withdrawal of US and NATO troops hinges on the Taliban meeting those commitments and not on a positive outcome to negotiations between the Taliban and Kabul's political leadership.
The deal also called on Kabul to free 5,000 Taliban while the insurgents were to free 1,000 government and military personnel.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has so far freed all but 400 of the Taliban prisoners, insisting on a traditional council to decide their release, saying their crimes were too serious for him to decide on alone.
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Karzai appoints cabinet and is inuagurated by Loya Jirga
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(19 Jun 2002)
1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya...
(19 Jun 2002)
1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
5. Wide shot interior loya jirga
6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
8. People raising their hands
9. Side view of Karzai at podium
10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage
11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari:
Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)"
12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony
13. UPSOUND (Dari) Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: "I ask God for success. (Karzai repeats after him) On your behalf, I inaugurate him - is that OK? Do you agree?", Hadi shakes Karzai's hand to signify end of inauguration
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Thank you very much. I thank God and pray for success from God to serve you well - thank you very much."
15. Delegates applauding
16. Karzai awarding medal to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
17. Wide shot of ceremony
18. Karzai awarding medal to US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
19. Cutaway of delegates
20. Karzai awarding medal to General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander
22. Karzai leaving
23. Wide shot tent interior
STORYLINE:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Wednesday after appointing a cabinet for an 18-month transitional administration.
Joined in a simple ceremony by Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari, Karzai vowed to protect the freedom of Afghanistan and uphold the laws of government.
Service medals were later awarded to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander.
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, the Afghan leader earlier reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held office in the interim cabinet, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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(19 Jun 2002)
1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
5. Wide shot interior loya jirga
6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
8. People raising their hands
9. Side view of Karzai at podium
10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage
11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari:
Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)"
12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony
13. UPSOUND (Dari) Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: "I ask God for success. (Karzai repeats after him) On your behalf, I inaugurate him - is that OK? Do you agree?", Hadi shakes Karzai's hand to signify end of inauguration
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Thank you very much. I thank God and pray for success from God to serve you well - thank you very much."
15. Delegates applauding
16. Karzai awarding medal to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
17. Wide shot of ceremony
18. Karzai awarding medal to US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
19. Cutaway of delegates
20. Karzai awarding medal to General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander
22. Karzai leaving
23. Wide shot tent interior
STORYLINE:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Wednesday after appointing a cabinet for an 18-month transitional administration.
Joined in a simple ceremony by Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari, Karzai vowed to protect the freedom of Afghanistan and uphold the laws of government.
Service medals were later awarded to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander.
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, the Afghan leader earlier reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held office in the interim cabinet, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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- published: 23 Jul 2015
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Preparations for meeting of Loya Jirga in Kabul
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(8 Jun 2002)
Kabul - 8 June 2002
1. Afghans in loya jirga tent attending a ceremony to mark handing over of site to loya jirga commission
2. Children carryi...
(8 Jun 2002)
Kabul - 8 June 2002
1. Afghans in loya jirga tent attending a ceremony to mark handing over of site to loya jirga commission
2. Children carrying large jigsaw piece in shape of one of Afghanistan's provinces, handing it to a member of the commission (two children from each province carried jigsaw shapes that make up Afghanistan jigsaw)
3. Cutaway musicians playing
4. People in ceremonial dress fitting jigsaw piece into Afghanistan jigsaw
5. Wide of ceremony
6. Wide of children in ceremonial dress standing in front of jigsaw, holding hands singing
7. Delegates standing around outside in part of the loya jirga conference compound
8. Various of delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Wali Mohammed Saidi, Loya jirga delegate
"For Afghanistan's future we want to be able to bring rights to the people and to pay close attention to democracy."
10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Nadia Salih, Loya jirga delegate
"We want the future to be free of militarism, we want to see the disarming of people. Every mother wants this and so do I."
11. Two female delegates
12. Wide of women sitting outside dormitory
13. Message boards
Kabul - 7 June 2002
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmed Nader Nadery, Loya jirga commission spokesman
"This loya jirga will bring a legitimacy for the future transitional government and it's very important for everyone across the country and it will be the end point for three decades of evil war in this country."
Logar Province - 5 June 2002
15. Various of people queuing outside a tent to vote for loya jirga delegate
16. Various of people inside voting
17. Various of counting votes
18. Various of women sitting in tent
Kabul - 8 June 2002
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Manoel (correct spelling) de Almeida y Silva, United Nations spokesman
"We do not yet have a clear picture of all the delegates, however preliminary indications show us there are people coming from different strata with different political inclinations and many of what are the so-called independents. A very important aspect of this loya jirga is the participation of women. There are some 180 women at least participating in this process which is a significant change from the past, and indeed we hope a very clear indication of the role that women and human rights will play in the future of this country."
FILE - Kabul
20. Various of interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai at the ISAF headquarters, shaking hands with British troops
Kabul - 8 June 2002
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Najibullah Amin, Political scientist, Kabul University
"Because he (Karzai) doesn't have a history of war, fighting and bloodshed among other leaders, and so it improves the situation for being a leader in future."
Kabul - Recent
22. Various of loya jirga tent being erected
Kabul - 8 June 2002
23. Wide of tent with flags flying
24. Various of security which is extremely tight amid fears the loya jirga will be targetted by al-Qaida
25. Wide from top of building showing line of soldiers filing past tents within compound
STORYLINE:
Afghani delegates have gathered in Kabul ahead of this week's loya jirga, or grand council, to choose a new government.
One-thousand delegates have been chosen by ballot from districts throughout the country, while another 500 have been selected to represent Afghans living abroad.
Starting on Monday, they will decide the government to lead the country up to elections in about 18 months time.
They'll also decide its form and powers and its relationship to local warlords throughout the country.
On Saturday, delegates attended a ceremony to hand over the Kabul loya jirga site to the loya jirga commission.
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(8 Jun 2002)
Kabul - 8 June 2002
1. Afghans in loya jirga tent attending a ceremony to mark handing over of site to loya jirga commission
2. Children carrying large jigsaw piece in shape of one of Afghanistan's provinces, handing it to a member of the commission (two children from each province carried jigsaw shapes that make up Afghanistan jigsaw)
3. Cutaway musicians playing
4. People in ceremonial dress fitting jigsaw piece into Afghanistan jigsaw
5. Wide of ceremony
6. Wide of children in ceremonial dress standing in front of jigsaw, holding hands singing
7. Delegates standing around outside in part of the loya jirga conference compound
8. Various of delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Wali Mohammed Saidi, Loya jirga delegate
"For Afghanistan's future we want to be able to bring rights to the people and to pay close attention to democracy."
10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Nadia Salih, Loya jirga delegate
"We want the future to be free of militarism, we want to see the disarming of people. Every mother wants this and so do I."
11. Two female delegates
12. Wide of women sitting outside dormitory
13. Message boards
Kabul - 7 June 2002
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmed Nader Nadery, Loya jirga commission spokesman
"This loya jirga will bring a legitimacy for the future transitional government and it's very important for everyone across the country and it will be the end point for three decades of evil war in this country."
Logar Province - 5 June 2002
15. Various of people queuing outside a tent to vote for loya jirga delegate
16. Various of people inside voting
17. Various of counting votes
18. Various of women sitting in tent
Kabul - 8 June 2002
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Manoel (correct spelling) de Almeida y Silva, United Nations spokesman
"We do not yet have a clear picture of all the delegates, however preliminary indications show us there are people coming from different strata with different political inclinations and many of what are the so-called independents. A very important aspect of this loya jirga is the participation of women. There are some 180 women at least participating in this process which is a significant change from the past, and indeed we hope a very clear indication of the role that women and human rights will play in the future of this country."
FILE - Kabul
20. Various of interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai at the ISAF headquarters, shaking hands with British troops
Kabul - 8 June 2002
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Najibullah Amin, Political scientist, Kabul University
"Because he (Karzai) doesn't have a history of war, fighting and bloodshed among other leaders, and so it improves the situation for being a leader in future."
Kabul - Recent
22. Various of loya jirga tent being erected
Kabul - 8 June 2002
23. Wide of tent with flags flying
24. Various of security which is extremely tight amid fears the loya jirga will be targetted by al-Qaida
25. Wide from top of building showing line of soldiers filing past tents within compound
STORYLINE:
Afghani delegates have gathered in Kabul ahead of this week's loya jirga, or grand council, to choose a new government.
One-thousand delegates have been chosen by ballot from districts throughout the country, while another 500 have been selected to represent Afghans living abroad.
Starting on Monday, they will decide the government to lead the country up to elections in about 18 months time.
They'll also decide its form and powers and its relationship to local warlords throughout the country.
On Saturday, delegates attended a ceremony to hand over the Kabul loya jirga site to the loya jirga commission.
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5:26
Meeting of Afghanistan Loya Jirga
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(14 Dec 2003)
1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Moha...
(14 Dec 2003)
1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem
4. Various children singing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah:
"Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibility that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience."
6. Various delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai:
"Dear country fellows, the draft of the constitution, is very rich, with all the aspects of our history, our religion and our culture being covered in this draft. Also we considered in this draft all aspects of the international constitutions. The main points of this constitution are as follows."
8. Audience
9. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"Islam is the main base of this constitution, it's the base and inspiration of this constitution, the respect of the spirit of the freedom and holy war martyrs is also mentioned in this constitution, and in this constitution the family is the main base of this society."
10. Audience
11. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"The different committees of the constitution draft had lengthy discussions regarding whether the political system of Afghanistan should be parliamentary or presidential systems. We had one year discussions on it. We were also involved in these discussions Considering the current situation of the country and national benefits, we came to the conclusion that the best political system for the country is Islamic presidential republic system. Our reasons presenting this system are we do not have powerful national political parties in our countries."
12. Wide of Karzai at podium
STORYLINE:
A landmark constitutional convention began in Afghanistan on Sunday with solemn prayers, the hopeful songs of children and a stirring speech by the nation's former king, who echoed the aspirations of his war-weary countrymen with a call for unity and peace.
Some 500 delegates- from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles- were gathered at a huge tent in the battle-scarred capital, Kabul, to hammer out a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council. Among the issues they were expected to spar over were the role of Afghan women, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in a nation accustomed to fighting over it.
"The people are relying on you and you should not forget them," the 88-year-old former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, told the assembly. "I hope you will try your best to maintain peace, stability and the unity of the Afghan people."
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilize the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
The king spoke after a rendition of a traditional Afghan folk song by a group of young children, wearing Nike shirts under richly embroidered traditional vests, that brought several delegates to tears.
Security was extremely tight after warnings from the U.S. military that Taliban militants might try to attack the convention. Afghan soldiers lined the roads leading up to the meeting site, and everyone entering the tent - including the delegates - was patted down for weapons and explosives.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalize a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
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(14 Dec 2003)
1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem
4. Various children singing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah:
"Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibility that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience."
6. Various delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai:
"Dear country fellows, the draft of the constitution, is very rich, with all the aspects of our history, our religion and our culture being covered in this draft. Also we considered in this draft all aspects of the international constitutions. The main points of this constitution are as follows."
8. Audience
9. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"Islam is the main base of this constitution, it's the base and inspiration of this constitution, the respect of the spirit of the freedom and holy war martyrs is also mentioned in this constitution, and in this constitution the family is the main base of this society."
10. Audience
11. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"The different committees of the constitution draft had lengthy discussions regarding whether the political system of Afghanistan should be parliamentary or presidential systems. We had one year discussions on it. We were also involved in these discussions Considering the current situation of the country and national benefits, we came to the conclusion that the best political system for the country is Islamic presidential republic system. Our reasons presenting this system are we do not have powerful national political parties in our countries."
12. Wide of Karzai at podium
STORYLINE:
A landmark constitutional convention began in Afghanistan on Sunday with solemn prayers, the hopeful songs of children and a stirring speech by the nation's former king, who echoed the aspirations of his war-weary countrymen with a call for unity and peace.
Some 500 delegates- from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles- were gathered at a huge tent in the battle-scarred capital, Kabul, to hammer out a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council. Among the issues they were expected to spar over were the role of Afghan women, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in a nation accustomed to fighting over it.
"The people are relying on you and you should not forget them," the 88-year-old former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, told the assembly. "I hope you will try your best to maintain peace, stability and the unity of the Afghan people."
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilize the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
The king spoke after a rendition of a traditional Afghan folk song by a group of young children, wearing Nike shirts under richly embroidered traditional vests, that brought several delegates to tears.
Security was extremely tight after warnings from the U.S. military that Taliban militants might try to attack the convention. Afghan soldiers lined the roads leading up to the meeting site, and everyone entering the tent - including the delegates - was patted down for weapons and explosives.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalize a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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3:43
Afghanistan Ulema Gathering at Loya Jirga hall | گردهمایی علمای کشور
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2:23
Taliban holds first loya jirga after capturing Kabul | Afghanistan News | Latest Updates | WION
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Reports announced that the Taliban won't make announcements on any new government until the last US troops left Afghanistan. However, the Taliban held the first...
Reports announced that the Taliban won't make announcements on any new government until the last US troops left Afghanistan. However, the Taliban held the first jirga after capturing Kabul. Nearly 800 Muslim scholars attended the event.
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8:05
Loya Jirga : Afghan "Grand Assembly" | The Hindu Analysis | UPSC
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Loya Jirga : Afghan "Grand Assembly" | The Hindu Analysis | UPSC
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2:08
Rare unrest at Loya Jirga as delegate criticises Jihadi leaders
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(17 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad l...
(17 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi
5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section
6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari):
"They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech)
7. Cutaway Afghan government members
8. Cutaway Jihad leader trying to calm down audience
9. Cutaway delegates
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Professor Abdul Rasul Sayaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
11. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A row broke up among delegates of the Loya Jirga, (Grand Council) in Kabul Wednesday.
Emotions ran high at Afghanistan's landmark constitutional convention when a woman delegate said Jihad (Holy war) leaders should face national and international trial for their actions in the middle nineties when Mujahidin rival sections were fighting for power in and around Kabul, after the fall of the communist government.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from the town of Farah said that "history won't forget what they have done".
The statement caused an outcry among Mujahidin delegates who stood up and surrounded the podium, accusing the delegate of being a communist.
The row ended up eventually after Abdul Rasul Sayaf, a Jihad leader, managed to calm down his supporters.
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed", he said.
The meeting resumed after Sayaf's speech.
It was the first time that the Loya Jirga, or grand council, was interrupted since it started on Sunday. The conference aims to draw up the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
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(17 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi
5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section
6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari):
"They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech)
7. Cutaway Afghan government members
8. Cutaway Jihad leader trying to calm down audience
9. Cutaway delegates
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Professor Abdul Rasul Sayaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
11. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A row broke up among delegates of the Loya Jirga, (Grand Council) in Kabul Wednesday.
Emotions ran high at Afghanistan's landmark constitutional convention when a woman delegate said Jihad (Holy war) leaders should face national and international trial for their actions in the middle nineties when Mujahidin rival sections were fighting for power in and around Kabul, after the fall of the communist government.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from the town of Farah said that "history won't forget what they have done".
The statement caused an outcry among Mujahidin delegates who stood up and surrounded the podium, accusing the delegate of being a communist.
The row ended up eventually after Abdul Rasul Sayaf, a Jihad leader, managed to calm down his supporters.
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed", he said.
The meeting resumed after Sayaf's speech.
It was the first time that the Loya Jirga, or grand council, was interrupted since it started on Sunday. The conference aims to draw up the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
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Rare unrest at Loya Jirga as delegate criticises Jihadi leaders
(17 Dec 2003) 1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room 2. Cutaway women delegates 3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah: "They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history." 4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader: "Please be polite, do not attack other people!" 5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi 5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section 6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari): "They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech) 7. Cutaway Afghan govern...
published: 30 Jul 2015 -
Security at loya jirga
(14 Dec 2003) 1. Wide of area around Loya Jirga tent 2. Pan to Loya Jirga tent 3. Mid shot of Loya Jirga tent 4. Various of security around Loya Jirga tent 5. Wide interior of delegates attending Loya Jirga 6. Afghan President Hamid Karzai entering tent 7. Wide interior of delegates attending Loya Jirga STORYLINE: Security was tight in the Afghan capital, Kabul on Sunday as around 500 delegates gathered in a huge tent to draw up a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council. The US military had warned that Taliban militants might try to attack the Kabul convention. Afghan soldiers lined the roads leading up to the meeting site, and everyone entering the tent - including the delegates - were checked for weapons and explosives. Among the issues di...
published: 21 Jul 2015 -
Afghan elders and Karzai differ over pact timing
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he will not sign a security pact with the US until after elections in 2014, but many in the Loya Jirga assembly disagree.
published: 24 Nov 2013 -
UN is providing protection for outspoken female Loya Jirga member
(18 Dec 2003) December 18, 2003 1. Wide shot news conference 2. SOUNDBITE (English) Reporter question: "... saying that there was a threat of violence and prevention of expression of views in the loya jirga. What is the United Nations comments or concern?" 3. SOUNDBITE (English): Manoel de Almeida e Silva, UN spokesman "Of course, we - I think like everyone - we deplore very much the incident that marred the plenary session of yesterday. As facilitators to this process, we have made all the contacts and helped contacts among all those that such contacts could overcome this incident. In particular, we paid very close attention to security conditions for the young lady who spoke up at the session." December 17, 2003 4. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room 5. Cutaway women del...
published: 23 Jul 2015 -
Meeting of Afghanistan Loya Jirga
(14 Dec 2003) 1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive 2. Various delegates 3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem 4. Various children singing 5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah: "Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibility that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience." 6. Various delegates 7. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai: "Islam is the main base of this constitution, it's the base and inspiration of this constitution, the respect of the spirit of the freedom and holy war martyrs is also mentione...
published: 21 Jul 2015 -
Meeting of Afghanistan Loya Jirga
(14 Dec 2003) CORRECTION FARSI CHANGED TO DARI 1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive 2. Various delegates 3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem 4. Various children singing 5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah: "Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibilty that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience." 6. Various delegates 7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai: "With the name of God who is the most merciful and the most gracious. All the praises are to God and we seek help from him. Today for all of us, for the f...
published: 21 Jul 2015 -
Loya Jirga : Afghan "Grand Assembly" | The Hindu Analysis | UPSC
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Delegates gather for second day to decide constitution
(15 Dec 2003) 1. Wide shot of Loya Jirga 2. Women in audience 3. Pan from right to left of front row delegates (Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum in blue green striped jacket) 4. Man addressing jirga 5. Women listening 6. Little girl singing 7. Wide shot of row of delegates listening 8. Man addressing loya jirga 9. Delegates listening 10. Wide shot of loya jirga 11. Man addressing loya jirga 12. Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah 13. Wide shot of loyal jirga STORYLINE: The loya jirga -- Afghanistan's grand council -- began its second day of talks on Monday aimed at finalizing the country's first post-Taliban constitution. Hundreds of delegates, from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles, gathered in a huge tent in the capital Kabul. Hundreds of soldiers gu...
published: 21 Jul 2015 -
The brave and historical speech of Malalai Joya in the LJ
Dec.17, 2003, Loya Jirga in Kabul When her time came to make her 3-minute statement, she tugged her black headscarf over her hair, stepped up to the microphone, and with emotional electricity made the speech that would alter her life. After she spoke, there was a moment of stunned silence. Then there was an uproar. Male mujahideen, some who literally had guns at their feet, rushed towards her, shouting. She was brought under the protection of UN security forces. In a nation where few dare to say the word "warlord" aloud, Joya had spoken fiercely against a proposal to appoint high clergy members and fundamentalist leaders to guide planning groups. She objected that several of those religious leaders were war criminals who should be tried for their actions—not national heroes to i...
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2:08
Rare unrest at Loya Jirga as delegate criticises Jihadi leaders
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(17 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad l...
(17 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi
5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section
6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari):
"They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech)
7. Cutaway Afghan government members
8. Cutaway Jihad leader trying to calm down audience
9. Cutaway delegates
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Professor Abdul Rasul Sayaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
11. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A row broke up among delegates of the Loya Jirga, (Grand Council) in Kabul Wednesday.
Emotions ran high at Afghanistan's landmark constitutional convention when a woman delegate said Jihad (Holy war) leaders should face national and international trial for their actions in the middle nineties when Mujahidin rival sections were fighting for power in and around Kabul, after the fall of the communist government.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from the town of Farah said that "history won't forget what they have done".
The statement caused an outcry among Mujahidin delegates who stood up and surrounded the podium, accusing the delegate of being a communist.
The row ended up eventually after Abdul Rasul Sayaf, a Jihad leader, managed to calm down his supporters.
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed", he said.
The meeting resumed after Sayaf's speech.
It was the first time that the Loya Jirga, or grand council, was interrupted since it started on Sunday. The conference aims to draw up the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
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(17 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi
5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section
6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari):
"They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech)
7. Cutaway Afghan government members
8. Cutaway Jihad leader trying to calm down audience
9. Cutaway delegates
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Professor Abdul Rasul Sayaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
11. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A row broke up among delegates of the Loya Jirga, (Grand Council) in Kabul Wednesday.
Emotions ran high at Afghanistan's landmark constitutional convention when a woman delegate said Jihad (Holy war) leaders should face national and international trial for their actions in the middle nineties when Mujahidin rival sections were fighting for power in and around Kabul, after the fall of the communist government.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from the town of Farah said that "history won't forget what they have done".
The statement caused an outcry among Mujahidin delegates who stood up and surrounded the podium, accusing the delegate of being a communist.
The row ended up eventually after Abdul Rasul Sayaf, a Jihad leader, managed to calm down his supporters.
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed", he said.
The meeting resumed after Sayaf's speech.
It was the first time that the Loya Jirga, or grand council, was interrupted since it started on Sunday. The conference aims to draw up the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
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- published: 30 Jul 2015
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1:24
Security at loya jirga
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- Duration: 1:24
- Uploaded Date: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 192
(14 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of area around Loya Jirga tent
2. Pan to Loya Jirga tent
3. Mid shot of Loya Jirga tent
4. Various of security around Loya Jirga tent...
(14 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of area around Loya Jirga tent
2. Pan to Loya Jirga tent
3. Mid shot of Loya Jirga tent
4. Various of security around Loya Jirga tent
5. Wide interior of delegates attending Loya Jirga
6. Afghan President Hamid Karzai entering tent
7. Wide interior of delegates attending Loya Jirga
STORYLINE:
Security was tight in the Afghan capital, Kabul on Sunday as around 500 delegates gathered in a huge tent to draw up a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council.
The US military had warned that Taliban militants might try to attack the Kabul convention.
Afghan soldiers lined the roads leading up to the meeting site, and everyone entering the tent - including the delegates - were checked for weapons and explosives.
Among the issues discussed: the draft constitution, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in the country.
President Hamid Karzai also spoke about the continuing threat of terrorism in Afghanistan.
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilise the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalise a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
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(14 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of area around Loya Jirga tent
2. Pan to Loya Jirga tent
3. Mid shot of Loya Jirga tent
4. Various of security around Loya Jirga tent
5. Wide interior of delegates attending Loya Jirga
6. Afghan President Hamid Karzai entering tent
7. Wide interior of delegates attending Loya Jirga
STORYLINE:
Security was tight in the Afghan capital, Kabul on Sunday as around 500 delegates gathered in a huge tent to draw up a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council.
The US military had warned that Taliban militants might try to attack the Kabul convention.
Afghan soldiers lined the roads leading up to the meeting site, and everyone entering the tent - including the delegates - were checked for weapons and explosives.
Among the issues discussed: the draft constitution, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in the country.
President Hamid Karzai also spoke about the continuing threat of terrorism in Afghanistan.
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilise the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalise a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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2:47
Afghan elders and Karzai differ over pact timing
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he will not sign a security pact with the US until after elections in 2014, but many in the Loya Jirga assembly disagree....
Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he will not sign a security pact with the US until after elections in 2014, but many in the Loya Jirga assembly disagree.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he will not sign a security pact with the US until after elections in 2014, but many in the Loya Jirga assembly disagree.
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2:16
UN is providing protection for outspoken female Loya Jirga member
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- Duration: 2:16
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(18 Dec 2003)
December 18, 2003
1. Wide shot news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Reporter question:
"... saying that there was a threat of violence and...
(18 Dec 2003)
December 18, 2003
1. Wide shot news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Reporter question:
"... saying that there was a threat of violence and prevention of expression of views in the loya jirga. What is the United Nations comments or concern?"
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Manoel de Almeida e Silva, UN spokesman
"Of course, we - I think like everyone - we deplore very much the incident that marred the plenary session of yesterday. As facilitators to this process, we have made all the contacts and helped contacts among all those that such contacts could overcome this incident. In particular, we paid very close attention to security conditions for the young lady who spoke up at the session."
December 17, 2003
4. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
5. Cutaway women delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Malalai Joya, Delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
7. UPSOUND (Dari) Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
8. Wide of audience, Joya in women's section angrily pointing finger
9. Professor Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Jihad leader, trying to calm down audience
10. Cutaway delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Professor Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
12. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A female delegate at a landmark constitutional council in Afghanistan is under UN protection after her outburst against Afghan warlords raised fears of a violent backlash.
The controversy threatens to overshadow the work of the council, or loya jirga, which has brought together 500 delegates from across Afghanistan to debate and ratify a new constitution that will set the war-plagued country on the road to democratic elections.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from western Farah province, has been moved from the compound housing other representatives and is staying at a guarded UN facility, though she is still attending sessions during the day, according to Nadeera Hayat Barhani, a female delegate from Balkh province.
UN spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva acknowledged that Joya was under UN protection, but would not say where.
Joya sparked controversy on Wednesday when she decried the positions of influence given to faction leaders such as former President Burhanuddin Rabbani and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a deeply conservative Islamist.
The men, who were key participants in Afghanistan's ruinous civil war in the 1990s, have been selected as committee chairmen at the council, or loya jirga.
Another female delegate, Anahika Adamir, said that Joya lost six family members in a rocket attack during the civil war and was being accompanied to and from the loya jirga site by UN personnel.
Joya's comments sparked a shouting match with several hard-liners at the jirga, who denounced her as a communist and demanded she be removed from the session.
On Thursday, Amnesty International criticised the treatment of Joya, saying she had received death threats on the floor of the assembly. They called on the council chairman, an ally of President Hamid Karzai, to ensure her right to speak.
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(18 Dec 2003)
December 18, 2003
1. Wide shot news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Reporter question:
"... saying that there was a threat of violence and prevention of expression of views in the loya jirga. What is the United Nations comments or concern?"
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Manoel de Almeida e Silva, UN spokesman
"Of course, we - I think like everyone - we deplore very much the incident that marred the plenary session of yesterday. As facilitators to this process, we have made all the contacts and helped contacts among all those that such contacts could overcome this incident. In particular, we paid very close attention to security conditions for the young lady who spoke up at the session."
December 17, 2003
4. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
5. Cutaway women delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Malalai Joya, Delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
7. UPSOUND (Dari) Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
8. Wide of audience, Joya in women's section angrily pointing finger
9. Professor Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Jihad leader, trying to calm down audience
10. Cutaway delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Professor Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
12. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A female delegate at a landmark constitutional council in Afghanistan is under UN protection after her outburst against Afghan warlords raised fears of a violent backlash.
The controversy threatens to overshadow the work of the council, or loya jirga, which has brought together 500 delegates from across Afghanistan to debate and ratify a new constitution that will set the war-plagued country on the road to democratic elections.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from western Farah province, has been moved from the compound housing other representatives and is staying at a guarded UN facility, though she is still attending sessions during the day, according to Nadeera Hayat Barhani, a female delegate from Balkh province.
UN spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva acknowledged that Joya was under UN protection, but would not say where.
Joya sparked controversy on Wednesday when she decried the positions of influence given to faction leaders such as former President Burhanuddin Rabbani and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a deeply conservative Islamist.
The men, who were key participants in Afghanistan's ruinous civil war in the 1990s, have been selected as committee chairmen at the council, or loya jirga.
Another female delegate, Anahika Adamir, said that Joya lost six family members in a rocket attack during the civil war and was being accompanied to and from the loya jirga site by UN personnel.
Joya's comments sparked a shouting match with several hard-liners at the jirga, who denounced her as a communist and demanded she be removed from the session.
On Thursday, Amnesty International criticised the treatment of Joya, saying she had received death threats on the floor of the assembly. They called on the council chairman, an ally of President Hamid Karzai, to ensure her right to speak.
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- published: 23 Jul 2015
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5:29
Meeting of Afghanistan Loya Jirga
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- Duration: 5:29
- Uploaded Date: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 462
(14 Dec 2003)
1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Moha...
(14 Dec 2003)
1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem
4. Various children singing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah:
"Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibility that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience."
6. Various delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"Islam is the main base of this constitution, it's the base and inspiration of this constitution, the respect of the spirit of the freedom and holy war martyrs is also mentioned in this constitution, and in this constitution the family is the main base of this society."
8. Audience
9. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"The different committees of the constitution draft had lengthy discussions regarding whether the political system of Afghanistan should be parliamentary or presidential systems. We had one year discussions on it. We were also involved in these discussions Considering the current situation of the country and national benefits, we came to the conclusion that the best political system for the country is Islamic presidential republic system. Our reasons presenting this system are we do not have powerful national political parties in our countries."
10. Wide of Karzai at podium
11. Mid shot of audience
12. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai:
"When the terrorist regime was finished in our country, still with the help of others they infiltrate our borders they continue the destruction inside of Afghanistan. With bombing they kill our innocent people and Imams (religious leaders) of our mosques. The terrorists are against the reconstruction of our country, they're against the improvement of our country's situation and also they don't want our children to go to schools. "
13. Zoom from woman clapping to audience
14. Wide of audience
STORYLINE:
A landmark constitutional convention began in Afghanistan on Sunday with solemn prayers, the hopeful songs of children and a stirring speech by the nation's former king, who echoed the aspirations of his war-weary countrymen with a call for unity and peace.
Some 500 delegates- from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles- were gathered at a huge tent in the battle-scarred capital, Kabul, to hammer out a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council. Among the issues they were expected to spar over were the role of Afghan women, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in a nation accustomed to fighting over it.
"The people are relying on you and you should not forget them," the 88-year-old former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, told the assembly. "I hope you will try your best to maintain peace, stability and the unity of the Afghan people."
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilize the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
The king spoke after a rendition of a traditional Afghan folk song by a group of young children, wearing Nike shirts under richly embroidered traditional vests, that brought several delegates to tears.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalize a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
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(14 Dec 2003)
1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem
4. Various children singing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah:
"Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibility that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience."
6. Various delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"Islam is the main base of this constitution, it's the base and inspiration of this constitution, the respect of the spirit of the freedom and holy war martyrs is also mentioned in this constitution, and in this constitution the family is the main base of this society."
8. Audience
9. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"The different committees of the constitution draft had lengthy discussions regarding whether the political system of Afghanistan should be parliamentary or presidential systems. We had one year discussions on it. We were also involved in these discussions Considering the current situation of the country and national benefits, we came to the conclusion that the best political system for the country is Islamic presidential republic system. Our reasons presenting this system are we do not have powerful national political parties in our countries."
10. Wide of Karzai at podium
11. Mid shot of audience
12. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai:
"When the terrorist regime was finished in our country, still with the help of others they infiltrate our borders they continue the destruction inside of Afghanistan. With bombing they kill our innocent people and Imams (religious leaders) of our mosques. The terrorists are against the reconstruction of our country, they're against the improvement of our country's situation and also they don't want our children to go to schools. "
13. Zoom from woman clapping to audience
14. Wide of audience
STORYLINE:
A landmark constitutional convention began in Afghanistan on Sunday with solemn prayers, the hopeful songs of children and a stirring speech by the nation's former king, who echoed the aspirations of his war-weary countrymen with a call for unity and peace.
Some 500 delegates- from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles- were gathered at a huge tent in the battle-scarred capital, Kabul, to hammer out a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council. Among the issues they were expected to spar over were the role of Afghan women, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in a nation accustomed to fighting over it.
"The people are relying on you and you should not forget them," the 88-year-old former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, told the assembly. "I hope you will try your best to maintain peace, stability and the unity of the Afghan people."
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilize the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
The king spoke after a rendition of a traditional Afghan folk song by a group of young children, wearing Nike shirts under richly embroidered traditional vests, that brought several delegates to tears.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalize a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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3:58
Meeting of Afghanistan Loya Jirga
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- Duration: 3:58
- Uploaded Date: 21 Jul 2015
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(14 Dec 2003) CORRECTION FARSI CHANGED TO DARI
1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegate...
(14 Dec 2003) CORRECTION FARSI CHANGED TO DARI
1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem
4. Various children singing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah:
"Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibilty that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience."
6. Various delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai:
"With the name of God who is the most merciful and the most gracious. All the praises are to God and we seek help from him. Today for all of us, for the father (the former King) of the nation, the representatives of the people, for the respected leaders of the holy war (jihadi), for my colleagues of the cabinet, for the commission of the constitution, and for Mr Ibrahimi (Special U.N Representative for Afghanistan), the outsiders, the nation of Afghanistan it is very pleasant moment of prosperity that we the people of Afghanistan are gathered together."
8. Mid shot western observers
STORYLINE:
A landmark constitutional convention began in Afghanistan on Sunday with solemn prayers, the hopeful songs of children and a stirring speech by the nation's former king, who echoed the aspirations of his war-weary countrymen with a call for unity and peace.
Some 500 delegates- from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles- were gathered at a huge tent in the battle-scarred capital, Kabul, to hammer out a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council. Among the issues they were expected to spar over were the role of Afghan women, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in a nation accustomed to fighting over it.
"The people are relying on you and you should not forget them," the 88-year-old former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, told the assembly. "I hope you will try your best to maintain peace, stability and the unity of the Afghan people."
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilize the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
The king spoke after a reading from the Quran by a blind cleric and a rendition of a traditional Afghan folk song by a group of young children, wearing Nike shirts under richly embroidered traditional vests, that brought several delegates to tears.
Security was extremely tight after warnings from the U.S. military that Taliban militants might try to attack the convention. Afghan soldiers lined the roads leading up to the meeting site, and everyone entering the tent - including the delegates - was patted down for weapons and explosives.
Many delegates wore fine silk robes, some with western suit jackets slung over them. Yellow, burgundy and cream colored turbans jutted out from the crowd, as did the simple woolen caps worn famously by slain former Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Masood.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalize a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
Delegates predicted fiery arguments over calls by the U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai for a strong chief executive, with opponents pushing for a prime minister who would share power. Karzai this week said he would not stand in next year's elections if a strong prime minister's post is created.
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(14 Dec 2003) CORRECTION FARSI CHANGED TO DARI
1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem
4. Various children singing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah:
"Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibilty that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience."
6. Various delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai:
"With the name of God who is the most merciful and the most gracious. All the praises are to God and we seek help from him. Today for all of us, for the father (the former King) of the nation, the representatives of the people, for the respected leaders of the holy war (jihadi), for my colleagues of the cabinet, for the commission of the constitution, and for Mr Ibrahimi (Special U.N Representative for Afghanistan), the outsiders, the nation of Afghanistan it is very pleasant moment of prosperity that we the people of Afghanistan are gathered together."
8. Mid shot western observers
STORYLINE:
A landmark constitutional convention began in Afghanistan on Sunday with solemn prayers, the hopeful songs of children and a stirring speech by the nation's former king, who echoed the aspirations of his war-weary countrymen with a call for unity and peace.
Some 500 delegates- from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles- were gathered at a huge tent in the battle-scarred capital, Kabul, to hammer out a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council. Among the issues they were expected to spar over were the role of Afghan women, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in a nation accustomed to fighting over it.
"The people are relying on you and you should not forget them," the 88-year-old former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, told the assembly. "I hope you will try your best to maintain peace, stability and the unity of the Afghan people."
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilize the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
The king spoke after a reading from the Quran by a blind cleric and a rendition of a traditional Afghan folk song by a group of young children, wearing Nike shirts under richly embroidered traditional vests, that brought several delegates to tears.
Security was extremely tight after warnings from the U.S. military that Taliban militants might try to attack the convention. Afghan soldiers lined the roads leading up to the meeting site, and everyone entering the tent - including the delegates - was patted down for weapons and explosives.
Many delegates wore fine silk robes, some with western suit jackets slung over them. Yellow, burgundy and cream colored turbans jutted out from the crowd, as did the simple woolen caps worn famously by slain former Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Masood.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalize a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
Delegates predicted fiery arguments over calls by the U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai for a strong chief executive, with opponents pushing for a prime minister who would share power. Karzai this week said he would not stand in next year's elections if a strong prime minister's post is created.
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Loya Jirga : Afghan "Grand Assembly" | The Hindu Analysis | UPSC
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2:28
Delegates gather for second day to decide constitution
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- Duration: 2:28
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(15 Dec 2003)
1. Wide shot of Loya Jirga
2. Women in audience
3. Pan from right to left of front row delegates (Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum in blue gr...
(15 Dec 2003)
1. Wide shot of Loya Jirga
2. Women in audience
3. Pan from right to left of front row delegates (Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum in blue green striped jacket)
4. Man addressing jirga
5. Women listening
6. Little girl singing
7. Wide shot of row of delegates listening
8. Man addressing loya jirga
9. Delegates listening
10. Wide shot of loya jirga
11. Man addressing loya jirga
12. Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah
13. Wide shot of loyal jirga
STORYLINE:
The loya jirga -- Afghanistan's grand council -- began its second day of talks on Monday aimed at finalizing the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
Hundreds of delegates, from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles, gathered in a huge tent in the capital Kabul.
Hundreds of soldiers guarded the event after warnings from the US military that militants might try to attack.
The council is deciding vital issues like the makeup of Islamic Afghanistan and the role of the country's women.
President Hamid Karzai pressed on Sunday for a strong presidential system that would stand up to the resurgent Taliban and make the country safe for aid workers and foreign investors.
The 160-article draft constitution foresees no post of prime minister in a highly centralized government and would allow the president to appoint top officials, even in the provinces, where warlords continue to hold power.
Karzai said this week he would not run in the scheduled June elections if a strong prime minister's post is created.
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(15 Dec 2003)
1. Wide shot of Loya Jirga
2. Women in audience
3. Pan from right to left of front row delegates (Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum in blue green striped jacket)
4. Man addressing jirga
5. Women listening
6. Little girl singing
7. Wide shot of row of delegates listening
8. Man addressing loya jirga
9. Delegates listening
10. Wide shot of loya jirga
11. Man addressing loya jirga
12. Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah
13. Wide shot of loyal jirga
STORYLINE:
The loya jirga -- Afghanistan's grand council -- began its second day of talks on Monday aimed at finalizing the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
Hundreds of delegates, from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles, gathered in a huge tent in the capital Kabul.
Hundreds of soldiers guarded the event after warnings from the US military that militants might try to attack.
The council is deciding vital issues like the makeup of Islamic Afghanistan and the role of the country's women.
President Hamid Karzai pressed on Sunday for a strong presidential system that would stand up to the resurgent Taliban and make the country safe for aid workers and foreign investors.
The 160-article draft constitution foresees no post of prime minister in a highly centralized government and would allow the president to appoint top officials, even in the provinces, where warlords continue to hold power.
Karzai said this week he would not run in the scheduled June elections if a strong prime minister's post is created.
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The brave and historical speech of Malalai Joya in the LJ
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Dec.17, 2003, Loya Jirga in Kabul
When her time came to make her 3-minute statement, she tugged her black headscarf over her hair, stepped up to the micropho...
Dec.17, 2003, Loya Jirga in Kabul
When her time came to make her 3-minute statement, she tugged her black headscarf over her hair, stepped up to the microphone, and with emotional electricity made the speech that would alter her life.
After she spoke, there was a moment of stunned silence. Then there was an uproar. Male mujahideen, some who literally had guns at their feet, rushed towards her, shouting. She was brought under the protection of UN security forces.
In a nation where few dare to say the word "warlord" aloud, Joya had spoken fiercely against a proposal to appoint high clergy members and fundamentalist leaders to guide planning groups. She objected that several of those religious leaders were war criminals who should be tried for their actions—not national heroes to influence the new government.
Despite the commands of Assembly Chairman, Joya refused to apologize.
Today, as a result of her legendary actions, Malalai Joya has become popular hero in Afghanistan. She speaks at rallies where thousands of people carry her photo high.
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Dec.17, 2003, Loya Jirga in Kabul
When her time came to make her 3-minute statement, she tugged her black headscarf over her hair, stepped up to the microphone, and with emotional electricity made the speech that would alter her life.
After she spoke, there was a moment of stunned silence. Then there was an uproar. Male mujahideen, some who literally had guns at their feet, rushed towards her, shouting. She was brought under the protection of UN security forces.
In a nation where few dare to say the word "warlord" aloud, Joya had spoken fiercely against a proposal to appoint high clergy members and fundamentalist leaders to guide planning groups. She objected that several of those religious leaders were war criminals who should be tried for their actions—not national heroes to influence the new government.
Despite the commands of Assembly Chairman, Joya refused to apologize.
Today, as a result of her legendary actions, Malalai Joya has become popular hero in Afghanistan. She speaks at rallies where thousands of people carry her photo high.
- published: 02 Jul 2007
- views: 170725
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Loya Jirga debates future of Afghan administration
(15 Jun 2002) 1. Wide shot of interior of loyal jirga meeting 2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Shir Mohammed Khan Bahaduri, delegate to the loyal jirga: "Those of you who say you want to support the king and his position in Afghanistan are not giving him your real support, your real agenda is to disrupt and disturb the loyal jirga meeting." 3. Mohammed Ismel Asimyar, Chairman of loyal jirga motioning the speaker to sit down 4. Shir Mohammed Khan Bahaduri, still arguing 5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Mohammed Ismel Asimyar, Chairman: "Sit down wait for your turn." 6. Unnamed man from the audience gets onto the podium, grabs the microphone endorsing the chairman, and asking the speaker to stop disrupting the meeting 7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Yunus Qanooni, Interior Minister: "Sit down" 8. Hamid Karzai walk...
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Preparations for meeting of Loya Jirga in Kabul
(8 Jun 2002) Kabul - 8 June 2002 1. Afghans in loya jirga tent attending a ceremony to mark handing over of site to loya jirga commission 2. Children carrying large jigsaw piece in shape of one of Afghanistan's provinces, handing it to a member of the commission (two children from each province carried jigsaw shapes that make up Afghanistan jigsaw) 3. Cutaway musicians playing 4. People in ceremonial dress fitting jigsaw piece into Afghanistan jigsaw 5. Wide of ceremony 6. Wide of children in ceremonial dress standing in front of jigsaw, holding hands singing 7. Delegates standing around outside in part of the loya jirga conference compound 8. Various of delegates 9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Wali Mohammed Saidi, Loya jirga delegate "For Afghanistan's future we want to be able to bring...
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Karzai appoints cabinet and is inuagurated by Loya Jirga
(19 Jun 2002) 1. Karzai getting out of car 2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival 3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard 4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent 5. Wide shot interior loya jirga 6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers 7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan: "Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet." 8. People raising their hands 9. Side view of Karzai at podium 10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage 11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)" 12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony 13. UP...
published: 23 Jul 2015 -
WRAP Loya Jirga to summon Karzai to try to break logjam
(22 Jun 2002) 1. Wide shot loya jirga meeting 2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan: "Regarding the formation of the transitional government, we first want to create a cabinet according to the actual need in Afghanistan which will be effective and cost-effective." 3. Cutaways 4. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan: "Afghanistan urgently needs a national army which the people can rely on. Now you can see the Minister of Defence is here, he should give you this confidence. We want an army that the people can trust and the army should have total control of the country, an army which indeed should protect our borders, an army in the service of defence of Afghanistan." 5. Wide shot meeting 6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghani...
published: 21 Jul 2015 -
WRAP Adds vote count and reax to Karzai victory
(13 Jun 2002) POOL 1. Various of votes being counted infront of loya jirga members 2. Box being brought out with votes 3. Wide pan of members watching 4. Various of votes being counted 5. Wide shot of loya jirga members after vote counting 6. Various of officials greeting Hamid Karzai POOL 7. Wide shot of loya jirga meeting 8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Ismail Qasim Yar, head of the Loya Jirga commission: "The votes of Hamid Karzai, 1,295." 9. Various of members getting up to applaud and cheer 10. Wide of Karzai being congratulated 11. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Hamid Karzai, transitional president of Afghanistan: "This a big vote of confidence that you have given me. I am a man, I am a weak man but I am here to serve you, the Afghan people. Our faith, our religion, I will serv...
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WRAP Karzai, US envoy comment on delay, Loya Jirga site
(10 Jun 2002) 1. Exterior tent where the loya jirga is due to take place 2. Tent 3. Delegates arriving 4. Set-up for press conference 5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zalmay Khalilzad, United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan: "They need to get their act together, they have an opportunity. We are here to be helpful, but this is ultimately their responsibility and they have an historic chance to turn a new page. They better grab it, they had one of these about 12 years ago, they missed the boat. Look what happened in Afghanistan, don't do it again." 6. Exterior of King's residence 7. Photo-call with Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai and Mohammad Zaher Shah 8. Cutaway Mohammad Zaher Shah 9. Cutaway Karzai 10. Set-up for press conference 11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Karzai...
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Tight security around King after Loya Jirga row
(10 Jun 2002) 1. Various of ISAF security at entrance to Loya Jirga 2. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Din Mohammed Jurat, Afghan national Police Chief: "(Interim Afghan Leader Hamid) Karzai himself is a Pashtun. He's is the best leader now. Everybody has agreed to vote for him. And he is the only person who can keep all the ethnic groups together. So, Karzai is a Pashtun himself, there is no problem from Pashtuns." 3. Wide of ISAF troops in silhouette by security fence STORYLINE: Security has been stepped up at the Loya Jirga in Kabul after supporters of ex-King Shah found out that the former leader has renounced any role in the new Afghan government. The move was aimed at defusing a crisis which forced a one-day delay in the opening of a grand council to select new leaders for this ...
published: 21 Jul 2015 -
Rare unrest at Loya Jirga as delegate criticises Jihadi leaders
(17 Dec 2003) 1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room 2. Cutaway women delegates 3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah: "They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history." 4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader: "Please be polite, do not attack other people!" 5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi 5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section 6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari): "They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech) 7. Cutaway Afghan govern...
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WRAP Karzai appoints cabinet and is inuagurated by Loya Jirga
(22 Jun 2002) 1. Karzai getting out of car 2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival 3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard 4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent 5. Wide shot interior loya jirga 6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers 7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan: "Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet." 8. People raising their hands 9. Side view of Karzai at podium 10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage 11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)" 12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony 13. ...
published: 21 Jul 2015 -
Loya Jirga to summon Karzai to try to break logjam
(17 Jun 2002) 1. Wide shot loya jirga meeting 2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan: "Regarding the formation of the transitional government, we first want to create a cabinet according to the actual need in Afghanistan which will be effective and cost-effective." 3. Cutaways 4. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan: "Afghanistan urgently needs a national army which the people can rely on. Now you can see the Minister of Defence is here, he should give you this confidence. We want an army that the people can trust and the army should have total control of the country, an army which indeed should protect our borders, an army in the service of defence of Afghanistan." 5. Wide shot meeting 6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghani...
published: 21 Jul 2015
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Loya Jirga debates future of Afghan administration
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- Duration: 2:36
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(15 Jun 2002)
1. Wide shot of interior of loyal jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Shir Mohammed Khan Bahaduri, delegate to the loyal jirga:
"Those of you ...
(15 Jun 2002)
1. Wide shot of interior of loyal jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Shir Mohammed Khan Bahaduri, delegate to the loyal jirga:
"Those of you who say you want to support the king and his position in Afghanistan are not giving him your real support, your real agenda is to disrupt and disturb the loyal jirga meeting."
3. Mohammed Ismel Asimyar, Chairman of loyal jirga motioning the speaker to sit down
4. Shir Mohammed Khan Bahaduri, still arguing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Mohammed Ismel Asimyar, Chairman:
"Sit down wait for your turn."
6. Unnamed man from the audience gets onto the podium, grabs the microphone endorsing the chairman, and asking the speaker to stop disrupting the meeting
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Yunus Qanooni, Interior Minister:
"Sit down"
8. Hamid Karzai walking up to the podium being applauded
9. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Hamid Karzai, President-elect of Afghanistan:
"When the loyal jirga has finished its meeting, we should all meet yet again for more discussions of this nature"
10. Wide shot of everyone applauding.
STORYLINE:
Afghan statesmen lined up behind microphones at the loyal jirga in Kabul on Saturday, for a further day of airing grievances and ideas about their nation's future.
With the selection of Hamid Karzai as president of an 18-month transitional government, the loyal jirga, or grand council, turned its attention to rounding out the rest of the new administration -- including a 111-seat legislature.
But by mid morning on Saturday, two days after Karzai's victory, the subject had not come up. Instead, delegates spoke on a variety of topics. Their message rang resoundingly clear: Listen to us.
"If people want peace, they will have to accept all the decisions of the delegates here. If people want war, then they won't accept any of our decisions," said delegate Halima Khazan from eastern Gardez.
Mohammad Kazem Ahang, a loyal jirga commission member, said Saturday afternoon that the council would finish its business on Monday, a day later than scheduled, after it completes the task of fashioning a new legislature.
The beginning of the grand council last week was delayed a day over questions about the role of the former king.
Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni, who offered to resign earlier this week, scolded delegates on Saturday for straying in their speeches and insulting each other.
Karzai, addressing the delegates, reminded them of the job ahead -- forming the legislative body of regional representatives that will guide the government into the future and represent the people.
He asked them to do so in the next few days, then stay on after the grand council adjourns.
Some delegates have complained the loyal jirga process is being unduly influenced by warlords who have created an atmosphere of intimidation.
The US special envoy to Afghanistan defended America's alliance with local warlords, saying they are necessary in the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Critics say those ties have undermined the current administration and may slow Karzai's ability to extend his authority after the new government emerges.
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(15 Jun 2002)
1. Wide shot of interior of loyal jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Shir Mohammed Khan Bahaduri, delegate to the loyal jirga:
"Those of you who say you want to support the king and his position in Afghanistan are not giving him your real support, your real agenda is to disrupt and disturb the loyal jirga meeting."
3. Mohammed Ismel Asimyar, Chairman of loyal jirga motioning the speaker to sit down
4. Shir Mohammed Khan Bahaduri, still arguing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Mohammed Ismel Asimyar, Chairman:
"Sit down wait for your turn."
6. Unnamed man from the audience gets onto the podium, grabs the microphone endorsing the chairman, and asking the speaker to stop disrupting the meeting
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Yunus Qanooni, Interior Minister:
"Sit down"
8. Hamid Karzai walking up to the podium being applauded
9. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Hamid Karzai, President-elect of Afghanistan:
"When the loyal jirga has finished its meeting, we should all meet yet again for more discussions of this nature"
10. Wide shot of everyone applauding.
STORYLINE:
Afghan statesmen lined up behind microphones at the loyal jirga in Kabul on Saturday, for a further day of airing grievances and ideas about their nation's future.
With the selection of Hamid Karzai as president of an 18-month transitional government, the loyal jirga, or grand council, turned its attention to rounding out the rest of the new administration -- including a 111-seat legislature.
But by mid morning on Saturday, two days after Karzai's victory, the subject had not come up. Instead, delegates spoke on a variety of topics. Their message rang resoundingly clear: Listen to us.
"If people want peace, they will have to accept all the decisions of the delegates here. If people want war, then they won't accept any of our decisions," said delegate Halima Khazan from eastern Gardez.
Mohammad Kazem Ahang, a loyal jirga commission member, said Saturday afternoon that the council would finish its business on Monday, a day later than scheduled, after it completes the task of fashioning a new legislature.
The beginning of the grand council last week was delayed a day over questions about the role of the former king.
Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni, who offered to resign earlier this week, scolded delegates on Saturday for straying in their speeches and insulting each other.
Karzai, addressing the delegates, reminded them of the job ahead -- forming the legislative body of regional representatives that will guide the government into the future and represent the people.
He asked them to do so in the next few days, then stay on after the grand council adjourns.
Some delegates have complained the loyal jirga process is being unduly influenced by warlords who have created an atmosphere of intimidation.
The US special envoy to Afghanistan defended America's alliance with local warlords, saying they are necessary in the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Critics say those ties have undermined the current administration and may slow Karzai's ability to extend his authority after the new government emerges.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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4:12
Preparations for meeting of Loya Jirga in Kabul
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- Duration: 4:12
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(8 Jun 2002)
Kabul - 8 June 2002
1. Afghans in loya jirga tent attending a ceremony to mark handing over of site to loya jirga commission
2. Children carryi...
(8 Jun 2002)
Kabul - 8 June 2002
1. Afghans in loya jirga tent attending a ceremony to mark handing over of site to loya jirga commission
2. Children carrying large jigsaw piece in shape of one of Afghanistan's provinces, handing it to a member of the commission (two children from each province carried jigsaw shapes that make up Afghanistan jigsaw)
3. Cutaway musicians playing
4. People in ceremonial dress fitting jigsaw piece into Afghanistan jigsaw
5. Wide of ceremony
6. Wide of children in ceremonial dress standing in front of jigsaw, holding hands singing
7. Delegates standing around outside in part of the loya jirga conference compound
8. Various of delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Wali Mohammed Saidi, Loya jirga delegate
"For Afghanistan's future we want to be able to bring rights to the people and to pay close attention to democracy."
10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Nadia Salih, Loya jirga delegate
"We want the future to be free of militarism, we want to see the disarming of people. Every mother wants this and so do I."
11. Two female delegates
12. Wide of women sitting outside dormitory
13. Message boards
Kabul - 7 June 2002
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmed Nader Nadery, Loya jirga commission spokesman
"This loya jirga will bring a legitimacy for the future transitional government and it's very important for everyone across the country and it will be the end point for three decades of evil war in this country."
Logar Province - 5 June 2002
15. Various of people queuing outside a tent to vote for loya jirga delegate
16. Various of people inside voting
17. Various of counting votes
18. Various of women sitting in tent
Kabul - 8 June 2002
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Manoel (correct spelling) de Almeida y Silva, United Nations spokesman
"We do not yet have a clear picture of all the delegates, however preliminary indications show us there are people coming from different strata with different political inclinations and many of what are the so-called independents. A very important aspect of this loya jirga is the participation of women. There are some 180 women at least participating in this process which is a significant change from the past, and indeed we hope a very clear indication of the role that women and human rights will play in the future of this country."
FILE - Kabul
20. Various of interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai at the ISAF headquarters, shaking hands with British troops
Kabul - 8 June 2002
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Najibullah Amin, Political scientist, Kabul University
"Because he (Karzai) doesn't have a history of war, fighting and bloodshed among other leaders, and so it improves the situation for being a leader in future."
Kabul - Recent
22. Various of loya jirga tent being erected
Kabul - 8 June 2002
23. Wide of tent with flags flying
24. Various of security which is extremely tight amid fears the loya jirga will be targetted by al-Qaida
25. Wide from top of building showing line of soldiers filing past tents within compound
STORYLINE:
Afghani delegates have gathered in Kabul ahead of this week's loya jirga, or grand council, to choose a new government.
One-thousand delegates have been chosen by ballot from districts throughout the country, while another 500 have been selected to represent Afghans living abroad.
Starting on Monday, they will decide the government to lead the country up to elections in about 18 months time.
They'll also decide its form and powers and its relationship to local warlords throughout the country.
On Saturday, delegates attended a ceremony to hand over the Kabul loya jirga site to the loya jirga commission.
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(8 Jun 2002)
Kabul - 8 June 2002
1. Afghans in loya jirga tent attending a ceremony to mark handing over of site to loya jirga commission
2. Children carrying large jigsaw piece in shape of one of Afghanistan's provinces, handing it to a member of the commission (two children from each province carried jigsaw shapes that make up Afghanistan jigsaw)
3. Cutaway musicians playing
4. People in ceremonial dress fitting jigsaw piece into Afghanistan jigsaw
5. Wide of ceremony
6. Wide of children in ceremonial dress standing in front of jigsaw, holding hands singing
7. Delegates standing around outside in part of the loya jirga conference compound
8. Various of delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Wali Mohammed Saidi, Loya jirga delegate
"For Afghanistan's future we want to be able to bring rights to the people and to pay close attention to democracy."
10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Nadia Salih, Loya jirga delegate
"We want the future to be free of militarism, we want to see the disarming of people. Every mother wants this and so do I."
11. Two female delegates
12. Wide of women sitting outside dormitory
13. Message boards
Kabul - 7 June 2002
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmed Nader Nadery, Loya jirga commission spokesman
"This loya jirga will bring a legitimacy for the future transitional government and it's very important for everyone across the country and it will be the end point for three decades of evil war in this country."
Logar Province - 5 June 2002
15. Various of people queuing outside a tent to vote for loya jirga delegate
16. Various of people inside voting
17. Various of counting votes
18. Various of women sitting in tent
Kabul - 8 June 2002
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Manoel (correct spelling) de Almeida y Silva, United Nations spokesman
"We do not yet have a clear picture of all the delegates, however preliminary indications show us there are people coming from different strata with different political inclinations and many of what are the so-called independents. A very important aspect of this loya jirga is the participation of women. There are some 180 women at least participating in this process which is a significant change from the past, and indeed we hope a very clear indication of the role that women and human rights will play in the future of this country."
FILE - Kabul
20. Various of interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai at the ISAF headquarters, shaking hands with British troops
Kabul - 8 June 2002
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Najibullah Amin, Political scientist, Kabul University
"Because he (Karzai) doesn't have a history of war, fighting and bloodshed among other leaders, and so it improves the situation for being a leader in future."
Kabul - Recent
22. Various of loya jirga tent being erected
Kabul - 8 June 2002
23. Wide of tent with flags flying
24. Various of security which is extremely tight amid fears the loya jirga will be targetted by al-Qaida
25. Wide from top of building showing line of soldiers filing past tents within compound
STORYLINE:
Afghani delegates have gathered in Kabul ahead of this week's loya jirga, or grand council, to choose a new government.
One-thousand delegates have been chosen by ballot from districts throughout the country, while another 500 have been selected to represent Afghans living abroad.
Starting on Monday, they will decide the government to lead the country up to elections in about 18 months time.
They'll also decide its form and powers and its relationship to local warlords throughout the country.
On Saturday, delegates attended a ceremony to hand over the Kabul loya jirga site to the loya jirga commission.
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- published: 30 Jul 2015
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3:10
Karzai appoints cabinet and is inuagurated by Loya Jirga
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- Duration: 3:10
- Uploaded Date: 23 Jul 2015
- views: 84659
(19 Jun 2002)
1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya...
(19 Jun 2002)
1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
5. Wide shot interior loya jirga
6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
8. People raising their hands
9. Side view of Karzai at podium
10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage
11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari:
Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)"
12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony
13. UPSOUND (Dari) Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: "I ask God for success. (Karzai repeats after him) On your behalf, I inaugurate him - is that OK? Do you agree?", Hadi shakes Karzai's hand to signify end of inauguration
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Thank you very much. I thank God and pray for success from God to serve you well - thank you very much."
15. Delegates applauding
16. Karzai awarding medal to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
17. Wide shot of ceremony
18. Karzai awarding medal to US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
19. Cutaway of delegates
20. Karzai awarding medal to General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander
22. Karzai leaving
23. Wide shot tent interior
STORYLINE:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Wednesday after appointing a cabinet for an 18-month transitional administration.
Joined in a simple ceremony by Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari, Karzai vowed to protect the freedom of Afghanistan and uphold the laws of government.
Service medals were later awarded to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander.
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, the Afghan leader earlier reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held office in the interim cabinet, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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(19 Jun 2002)
1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
5. Wide shot interior loya jirga
6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
8. People raising their hands
9. Side view of Karzai at podium
10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage
11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari:
Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)"
12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony
13. UPSOUND (Dari) Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: "I ask God for success. (Karzai repeats after him) On your behalf, I inaugurate him - is that OK? Do you agree?", Hadi shakes Karzai's hand to signify end of inauguration
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Thank you very much. I thank God and pray for success from God to serve you well - thank you very much."
15. Delegates applauding
16. Karzai awarding medal to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
17. Wide shot of ceremony
18. Karzai awarding medal to US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
19. Cutaway of delegates
20. Karzai awarding medal to General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander
22. Karzai leaving
23. Wide shot tent interior
STORYLINE:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Wednesday after appointing a cabinet for an 18-month transitional administration.
Joined in a simple ceremony by Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari, Karzai vowed to protect the freedom of Afghanistan and uphold the laws of government.
Service medals were later awarded to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander.
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, the Afghan leader earlier reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held office in the interim cabinet, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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- published: 23 Jul 2015
- views: 84659
3:13
WRAP Loya Jirga to summon Karzai to try to break logjam
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- Duration: 3:13
- Uploaded Date: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 816
(22 Jun 2002)
1. Wide shot loya jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Regarding the formation of the transitional gov...
(22 Jun 2002)
1. Wide shot loya jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Regarding the formation of the transitional government, we first want to create a cabinet according to the actual need in Afghanistan which will be effective and cost-effective."
3. Cutaways
4. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan urgently needs a national army which the people can rely on. Now you can see the Minister of Defence is here, he should give you this confidence. We want an army that the people can trust and the army should have total control of the country, an army which indeed should protect our borders, an army in the service of defence of Afghanistan."
5. Wide shot meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan should move towards a government of the people. The people should share in the decisions of the government and should be aware of what the government's doing. We say transparency, we mean clear and bright, we should make decisions in the open."
7. Cutaway
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"I haven't had time to think about the formation of the cabinet and its members. I've had other things to do, give me time this evening to think about it. Tomorrow we'll meet and sit and talk. We were meant to do it today, but I had other things on, is that OK?"
9. Karzai walks off stage
10. Cutaway
11. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan and Tajik Islamic leader:
"I make a proposal to Mr Karzai regarding the formation of his cabinet. Mr Karzai should consult with the loya jirga on whatever formula he is working on. He should give precise consultation. The cabinet that he proposes should be sanctioned by the loya jirga and the loya jirga should be a hundred percent satisfied."
12. Exterior loya jirga members leaving
STORYLINE:
Moving to resolve one of Afghanistan's most contentious issues, newly elected President Hamid Karzai said on Monday he wanted to select the members of his own Cabinet, pledging it would be one that "meets the needs of the people".
He also called on the loya jirga, the Afghan grand council, to select from within its 1,600-strong membership a committee - one he said should name the commission that will in turn determine the form and membership of the country's legislature.
Karzai's comments came after the loya jirga spent two days unsuccessfully trying to pick a representative body for the nation.
He said the loya jirga's leadership did not realise it would be so difficult and time-consuming to fashion a new legislature and pick its members.
The loya jirga started a day late and was still running a day after its scheduled Sunday culmination.
Karzai, the leader of Afghanistan's interim government, was chosen to lead its 18-month transitional administration last week.
He said the grand council should name people to stay behind after it adjourns and choose a commission to establish the structure of the assembly.
The loya jirga adjourned until Tuesday morning, delaying the ending another day, and it was still unclear exactly when the council would wind up its work.
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(22 Jun 2002)
1. Wide shot loya jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Regarding the formation of the transitional government, we first want to create a cabinet according to the actual need in Afghanistan which will be effective and cost-effective."
3. Cutaways
4. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan urgently needs a national army which the people can rely on. Now you can see the Minister of Defence is here, he should give you this confidence. We want an army that the people can trust and the army should have total control of the country, an army which indeed should protect our borders, an army in the service of defence of Afghanistan."
5. Wide shot meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan should move towards a government of the people. The people should share in the decisions of the government and should be aware of what the government's doing. We say transparency, we mean clear and bright, we should make decisions in the open."
7. Cutaway
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"I haven't had time to think about the formation of the cabinet and its members. I've had other things to do, give me time this evening to think about it. Tomorrow we'll meet and sit and talk. We were meant to do it today, but I had other things on, is that OK?"
9. Karzai walks off stage
10. Cutaway
11. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan and Tajik Islamic leader:
"I make a proposal to Mr Karzai regarding the formation of his cabinet. Mr Karzai should consult with the loya jirga on whatever formula he is working on. He should give precise consultation. The cabinet that he proposes should be sanctioned by the loya jirga and the loya jirga should be a hundred percent satisfied."
12. Exterior loya jirga members leaving
STORYLINE:
Moving to resolve one of Afghanistan's most contentious issues, newly elected President Hamid Karzai said on Monday he wanted to select the members of his own Cabinet, pledging it would be one that "meets the needs of the people".
He also called on the loya jirga, the Afghan grand council, to select from within its 1,600-strong membership a committee - one he said should name the commission that will in turn determine the form and membership of the country's legislature.
Karzai's comments came after the loya jirga spent two days unsuccessfully trying to pick a representative body for the nation.
He said the loya jirga's leadership did not realise it would be so difficult and time-consuming to fashion a new legislature and pick its members.
The loya jirga started a day late and was still running a day after its scheduled Sunday culmination.
Karzai, the leader of Afghanistan's interim government, was chosen to lead its 18-month transitional administration last week.
He said the grand council should name people to stay behind after it adjourns and choose a commission to establish the structure of the assembly.
The loya jirga adjourned until Tuesday morning, delaying the ending another day, and it was still unclear exactly when the council would wind up its work.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 816
3:19
WRAP Adds vote count and reax to Karzai victory
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:19
- Uploaded Date: 30 Jul 2015
- views: 12054
(13 Jun 2002)
POOL
1. Various of votes being counted infront of loya jirga members
2. Box being brought out with votes
3. Wide pan of members watching
...
(13 Jun 2002)
POOL
1. Various of votes being counted infront of loya jirga members
2. Box being brought out with votes
3. Wide pan of members watching
4. Various of votes being counted
5. Wide shot of loya jirga members after vote counting
6. Various of officials greeting Hamid Karzai
POOL
7. Wide shot of loya jirga meeting
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Ismail Qasim Yar, head of the Loya Jirga commission:
"The votes of Hamid Karzai, 1,295."
9. Various of members getting up to applaud and cheer
10. Wide of Karzai being congratulated
11. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Hamid Karzai, transitional president of Afghanistan:
"This a big vote of confidence that you have given me. I am a man, I am a weak man but I am here to serve you, the Afghan people. Our faith, our religion, I will serve our mujahedeen people, and I will serve in the development of our country. Thank you for your confidence."
12. Wide of the gathering
APTN
13. Set up of Zalmay Khalilzad, US Envoy to Afghanistan
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Zalmay Khalilzad, US Envoy to Afghanistan:
"With this new beginning the country's put on a path to solve its problems, stand on its own feet, have the difficult problems that they've had left behind them. So, we're very hopeful and as an American official I'm very pleased with whatever role we've played in helping them get to this stage."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Azim Nasir Zia, Spokesman for former king Zaher Shah:
"I consider this a very good first step - and from now on hopefully with some, with a lot of assistance rather, from our friends and all that, we'll be able to reconstruct the country - most important, reunite and reintegrate Afghanistan."
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Manoel de Almeida e Silva, UN Envoy to Afghanistan:
"The result is a vote today by the Loya Jirga, which is a very respected institution with binding decisions - the vast majority of the votes in favour of the election - or rather, the vast majority elected Chairman Karzai, so that's very welcome."
17. Wide shot of loya jirga
STORYLINE:
Hamid Karzai, the US-backed leader of the interim Afghan administration, was overwhelmingly elected on Thursday as head of the new transitional government to rule the country for the next 18 months.
The 44-year-old chairman of the current interim government won 1,295 votes from delegates to the grand council, or Loya Jirga which has been meeting this week in Kabul.
Three others had been nominated although one was disqualified for lack of support.
Karzai won thunderous applause when the results were announced by the commission chairman, Ismail Qasim Yar.
The voting represented the first steps towards democracy for a country emerging from the ravages of two decades of war and poverty.
Karzai, praised for his reconciliation efforts during six months in power, promised a brighter future if the country's 27 million people can put aside ethnic differences and work together in peace.
US Envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad sees Thursday's events as an opportunity for Afghanistan to experience a fresh start.
Afghanistan's former rulers, the Taliban, and their foreign fighters - including those affiliated with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network - were ousted in a US-led military campaign which followed the September 11 attacks.
The Taliban's departure was greeted with a massive international effort to help rebuild Afghanistan.
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(13 Jun 2002)
POOL
1. Various of votes being counted infront of loya jirga members
2. Box being brought out with votes
3. Wide pan of members watching
4. Various of votes being counted
5. Wide shot of loya jirga members after vote counting
6. Various of officials greeting Hamid Karzai
POOL
7. Wide shot of loya jirga meeting
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Ismail Qasim Yar, head of the Loya Jirga commission:
"The votes of Hamid Karzai, 1,295."
9. Various of members getting up to applaud and cheer
10. Wide of Karzai being congratulated
11. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Hamid Karzai, transitional president of Afghanistan:
"This a big vote of confidence that you have given me. I am a man, I am a weak man but I am here to serve you, the Afghan people. Our faith, our religion, I will serve our mujahedeen people, and I will serve in the development of our country. Thank you for your confidence."
12. Wide of the gathering
APTN
13. Set up of Zalmay Khalilzad, US Envoy to Afghanistan
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Zalmay Khalilzad, US Envoy to Afghanistan:
"With this new beginning the country's put on a path to solve its problems, stand on its own feet, have the difficult problems that they've had left behind them. So, we're very hopeful and as an American official I'm very pleased with whatever role we've played in helping them get to this stage."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Azim Nasir Zia, Spokesman for former king Zaher Shah:
"I consider this a very good first step - and from now on hopefully with some, with a lot of assistance rather, from our friends and all that, we'll be able to reconstruct the country - most important, reunite and reintegrate Afghanistan."
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Manoel de Almeida e Silva, UN Envoy to Afghanistan:
"The result is a vote today by the Loya Jirga, which is a very respected institution with binding decisions - the vast majority of the votes in favour of the election - or rather, the vast majority elected Chairman Karzai, so that's very welcome."
17. Wide shot of loya jirga
STORYLINE:
Hamid Karzai, the US-backed leader of the interim Afghan administration, was overwhelmingly elected on Thursday as head of the new transitional government to rule the country for the next 18 months.
The 44-year-old chairman of the current interim government won 1,295 votes from delegates to the grand council, or Loya Jirga which has been meeting this week in Kabul.
Three others had been nominated although one was disqualified for lack of support.
Karzai won thunderous applause when the results were announced by the commission chairman, Ismail Qasim Yar.
The voting represented the first steps towards democracy for a country emerging from the ravages of two decades of war and poverty.
Karzai, praised for his reconciliation efforts during six months in power, promised a brighter future if the country's 27 million people can put aside ethnic differences and work together in peace.
US Envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad sees Thursday's events as an opportunity for Afghanistan to experience a fresh start.
Afghanistan's former rulers, the Taliban, and their foreign fighters - including those affiliated with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network - were ousted in a US-led military campaign which followed the September 11 attacks.
The Taliban's departure was greeted with a massive international effort to help rebuild Afghanistan.
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- published: 30 Jul 2015
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1:59
WRAP Karzai, US envoy comment on delay, Loya Jirga site
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- Duration: 1:59
- Uploaded Date: 30 Jul 2015
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(10 Jun 2002)
1. Exterior tent where the loya jirga is due to take place
2. Tent
3. Delegates arriving
4. Set-up for press conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (Eng...
(10 Jun 2002)
1. Exterior tent where the loya jirga is due to take place
2. Tent
3. Delegates arriving
4. Set-up for press conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zalmay Khalilzad, United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan:
"They need to get their act together, they have an opportunity. We are here to be helpful, but this is ultimately their responsibility and they have an historic chance to turn a new page. They better grab it, they had one of these about 12 years ago, they missed the boat. Look what happened in Afghanistan, don't do it again."
6. Exterior of King's residence
7. Photo-call with Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai and Mohammad Zaher Shah
8. Cutaway Mohammad Zaher Shah
9. Cutaway Karzai
10. Set-up for press conference
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's interim leader :
"He will have the highest state protocol, as such, I am grateful to him for the kind words he has expressed about me, and for the confidence His Majesty has placed in me to go on and serve as the transition head of the administration that is after the Loya Jirga of course decides about it. As far as His Majesty is concerned I am very grateful for that, I will be as faithful and loyal to him as I have been in the past, thank you."
12. Tents at Loya Jirga centre
STORYLINE:
The opening session of the Loya Jirga, the grand council called to organise a new Afghan government, was postponed for a day on Monday as differences on the future role of the country's former king emerged.
The special U-S envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, said the former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, would say later on Monday that he would not accept the post as head of state. The envoy said Zaher Shah would endorse interim leader Hamid Karzai for head of state.
He also said this was an historic opportunity for Afghanistan which they must not spurn.
The meeting was to have opened on Monday morning, with 1,550 delegates charged with selecting a new government to run the country until elections in 18 months time.
The opening session was reset for three p.m. local on Tuesday.
Leaders of the mainly Tajik northern alliance, who dominate the current interim regime, strongly oppose any role for Zaher Shah in the new government.
However, many of the delegates from the country's major ethnic group, the Pashtuns, want the ex-king to have a formal role in the next government.
The delegates, among them 200 women, must select a head of state, decide the framework of the transitional government and name ministers to key posts. The new government will lead for 18 months pending elections.
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https://wn.com/Wrap_Karzai,_US_Envoy_Comment_On_Delay,_Loya_Jirga_Site
(10 Jun 2002)
1. Exterior tent where the loya jirga is due to take place
2. Tent
3. Delegates arriving
4. Set-up for press conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zalmay Khalilzad, United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan:
"They need to get their act together, they have an opportunity. We are here to be helpful, but this is ultimately their responsibility and they have an historic chance to turn a new page. They better grab it, they had one of these about 12 years ago, they missed the boat. Look what happened in Afghanistan, don't do it again."
6. Exterior of King's residence
7. Photo-call with Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai and Mohammad Zaher Shah
8. Cutaway Mohammad Zaher Shah
9. Cutaway Karzai
10. Set-up for press conference
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's interim leader :
"He will have the highest state protocol, as such, I am grateful to him for the kind words he has expressed about me, and for the confidence His Majesty has placed in me to go on and serve as the transition head of the administration that is after the Loya Jirga of course decides about it. As far as His Majesty is concerned I am very grateful for that, I will be as faithful and loyal to him as I have been in the past, thank you."
12. Tents at Loya Jirga centre
STORYLINE:
The opening session of the Loya Jirga, the grand council called to organise a new Afghan government, was postponed for a day on Monday as differences on the future role of the country's former king emerged.
The special U-S envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, said the former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, would say later on Monday that he would not accept the post as head of state. The envoy said Zaher Shah would endorse interim leader Hamid Karzai for head of state.
He also said this was an historic opportunity for Afghanistan which they must not spurn.
The meeting was to have opened on Monday morning, with 1,550 delegates charged with selecting a new government to run the country until elections in 18 months time.
The opening session was reset for three p.m. local on Tuesday.
Leaders of the mainly Tajik northern alliance, who dominate the current interim regime, strongly oppose any role for Zaher Shah in the new government.
However, many of the delegates from the country's major ethnic group, the Pashtuns, want the ex-king to have a formal role in the next government.
The delegates, among them 200 women, must select a head of state, decide the framework of the transitional government and name ministers to key posts. The new government will lead for 18 months pending elections.
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- published: 30 Jul 2015
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1:05
Tight security around King after Loya Jirga row
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 1:05
- Uploaded Date: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 795
(10 Jun 2002)
1. Various of ISAF security at entrance to Loya Jirga
2. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Din Mohammed Jurat, Afghan national Police Chief:
"(Interim Afgh...
(10 Jun 2002)
1. Various of ISAF security at entrance to Loya Jirga
2. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Din Mohammed Jurat, Afghan national Police Chief:
"(Interim Afghan Leader Hamid) Karzai himself is a Pashtun. He's is the best leader now. Everybody has agreed to vote for him. And he is the only person who can keep all the ethnic groups together. So, Karzai is a Pashtun himself, there is no problem from Pashtuns."
3. Wide of ISAF troops in silhouette by security fence
STORYLINE:
Security has been stepped up at the Loya Jirga in Kabul after supporters of ex-King Shah found out that the former leader has renounced any role in the new Afghan government.
The move was aimed at defusing a crisis which forced a one-day delay in the opening of a grand council to select new leaders for this war-battered nation.
Some delegates expressed shock at the decision, which appeared to be aimed at pacifying the ethnic Tajik clique which took power through a United Nations brokered agreement last year after the US bombing campaign toppled the Taliban.
But ex-king Zaher Shah's announcement caused bitter complaints among some ethnic Pashtun delegates who had wanted the ex-monarch to have a greater role in the running of Afghanistan.
Some threatened to boycott the procedures, which are to begin on Tuesday.
Afghan national Police Chief Din Mohammed Jurat said that rumours that some of Shah's Pashtun supporters would become violent were not true because their ethic group was already well represented by Hamid Karzai.
An ethnic Pashtun, Zaher Shah returned to Afghanistan in April after 29 years in exile in Italy, to try to unite is shattered homeland, deeply divided along ethnic lines after 23 years of relentless war.
However the divisions appear to be widening.
In his statement, Zaher Shah said he fully supported Karzai for transitional president to rule this war-shattered nation for the next 19 months, spearhead the writing of a new constitution and oversee preparations for nationwide polls.
There were rumours of some security problems during the last 24 hours, although the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), led by the British and put in place by a Untied Nations resolution, held an earlier news conference to say there were no security concerns.
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https://wn.com/Tight_Security_Around_King_After_Loya_Jirga_Row
(10 Jun 2002)
1. Various of ISAF security at entrance to Loya Jirga
2. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Din Mohammed Jurat, Afghan national Police Chief:
"(Interim Afghan Leader Hamid) Karzai himself is a Pashtun. He's is the best leader now. Everybody has agreed to vote for him. And he is the only person who can keep all the ethnic groups together. So, Karzai is a Pashtun himself, there is no problem from Pashtuns."
3. Wide of ISAF troops in silhouette by security fence
STORYLINE:
Security has been stepped up at the Loya Jirga in Kabul after supporters of ex-King Shah found out that the former leader has renounced any role in the new Afghan government.
The move was aimed at defusing a crisis which forced a one-day delay in the opening of a grand council to select new leaders for this war-battered nation.
Some delegates expressed shock at the decision, which appeared to be aimed at pacifying the ethnic Tajik clique which took power through a United Nations brokered agreement last year after the US bombing campaign toppled the Taliban.
But ex-king Zaher Shah's announcement caused bitter complaints among some ethnic Pashtun delegates who had wanted the ex-monarch to have a greater role in the running of Afghanistan.
Some threatened to boycott the procedures, which are to begin on Tuesday.
Afghan national Police Chief Din Mohammed Jurat said that rumours that some of Shah's Pashtun supporters would become violent were not true because their ethic group was already well represented by Hamid Karzai.
An ethnic Pashtun, Zaher Shah returned to Afghanistan in April after 29 years in exile in Italy, to try to unite is shattered homeland, deeply divided along ethnic lines after 23 years of relentless war.
However the divisions appear to be widening.
In his statement, Zaher Shah said he fully supported Karzai for transitional president to rule this war-shattered nation for the next 19 months, spearhead the writing of a new constitution and oversee preparations for nationwide polls.
There were rumours of some security problems during the last 24 hours, although the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), led by the British and put in place by a Untied Nations resolution, held an earlier news conference to say there were no security concerns.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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2:08
Rare unrest at Loya Jirga as delegate criticises Jihadi leaders
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 2:08
- Uploaded Date: 30 Jul 2015
- views: 2204
(17 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad l...
(17 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi
5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section
6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari):
"They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech)
7. Cutaway Afghan government members
8. Cutaway Jihad leader trying to calm down audience
9. Cutaway delegates
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Professor Abdul Rasul Sayaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
11. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A row broke up among delegates of the Loya Jirga, (Grand Council) in Kabul Wednesday.
Emotions ran high at Afghanistan's landmark constitutional convention when a woman delegate said Jihad (Holy war) leaders should face national and international trial for their actions in the middle nineties when Mujahidin rival sections were fighting for power in and around Kabul, after the fall of the communist government.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from the town of Farah said that "history won't forget what they have done".
The statement caused an outcry among Mujahidin delegates who stood up and surrounded the podium, accusing the delegate of being a communist.
The row ended up eventually after Abdul Rasul Sayaf, a Jihad leader, managed to calm down his supporters.
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed", he said.
The meeting resumed after Sayaf's speech.
It was the first time that the Loya Jirga, or grand council, was interrupted since it started on Sunday. The conference aims to draw up the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
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https://wn.com/Rare_Unrest_At_Loya_Jirga_As_Delegate_Criticises_Jihadi_Leaders
(17 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi
5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section
6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari):
"They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech)
7. Cutaway Afghan government members
8. Cutaway Jihad leader trying to calm down audience
9. Cutaway delegates
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Professor Abdul Rasul Sayaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
11. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A row broke up among delegates of the Loya Jirga, (Grand Council) in Kabul Wednesday.
Emotions ran high at Afghanistan's landmark constitutional convention when a woman delegate said Jihad (Holy war) leaders should face national and international trial for their actions in the middle nineties when Mujahidin rival sections were fighting for power in and around Kabul, after the fall of the communist government.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from the town of Farah said that "history won't forget what they have done".
The statement caused an outcry among Mujahidin delegates who stood up and surrounded the podium, accusing the delegate of being a communist.
The row ended up eventually after Abdul Rasul Sayaf, a Jihad leader, managed to calm down his supporters.
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed", he said.
The meeting resumed after Sayaf's speech.
It was the first time that the Loya Jirga, or grand council, was interrupted since it started on Sunday. The conference aims to draw up the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
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- published: 30 Jul 2015
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3:32
WRAP Karzai appoints cabinet and is inuagurated by Loya Jirga
- Order: Reorder
- Duration: 3:32
- Uploaded Date: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 133
(22 Jun 2002)
1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering lo...
(22 Jun 2002)
1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
5. Wide shot interior loya jirga
6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
8. People raising their hands
9. Side view of Karzai at podium
10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage
11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari:
Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)"
12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony
13. UPSOUND (Dari) Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: "I ask God for success. (Karzai repeats after him) On your behalf, I inaugurate him - is that OK? Do you agree?", Hadi shakes Karzai's hand to signify end of inauguration
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Thank you very much. I thank God and pray for success from God to serve you well - thank you very much."
15. Delegates applauding
16. Karzai awarding medal to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
17. Wide shot of ceremony
18. Karzai awarding medal to US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
19. Cutaway of delegates
20. Karzai awarding medal to General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander
22. Karzai leaving
23. Wide shot tent interior
STORYLINE:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Wednesday after appointing a cabinet for an 18-month transitional administration.
Joined in a simple ceremony by Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari, Karzai vowed to protect the freedom of Afghanistan and uphold the laws of government.
Service medals were later awarded to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander.
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, the Afghan leader earlier reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held office in the interim cabinet, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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https://wn.com/Wrap_Karzai_Appoints_Cabinet_And_Is_Inuagurated_By_Loya_Jirga
(22 Jun 2002)
1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
5. Wide shot interior loya jirga
6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
8. People raising their hands
9. Side view of Karzai at podium
10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage
11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari:
Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)"
12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony
13. UPSOUND (Dari) Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: "I ask God for success. (Karzai repeats after him) On your behalf, I inaugurate him - is that OK? Do you agree?", Hadi shakes Karzai's hand to signify end of inauguration
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Thank you very much. I thank God and pray for success from God to serve you well - thank you very much."
15. Delegates applauding
16. Karzai awarding medal to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
17. Wide shot of ceremony
18. Karzai awarding medal to US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
19. Cutaway of delegates
20. Karzai awarding medal to General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander
22. Karzai leaving
23. Wide shot tent interior
STORYLINE:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Wednesday after appointing a cabinet for an 18-month transitional administration.
Joined in a simple ceremony by Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari, Karzai vowed to protect the freedom of Afghanistan and uphold the laws of government.
Service medals were later awarded to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander.
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, the Afghan leader earlier reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held office in the interim cabinet, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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- published: 21 Jul 2015
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3:13
Loya Jirga to summon Karzai to try to break logjam
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- Duration: 3:13
- Uploaded Date: 21 Jul 2015
- views: 37
(17 Jun 2002)
1. Wide shot loya jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Regarding the formation of the transitional gov...
(17 Jun 2002)
1. Wide shot loya jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Regarding the formation of the transitional government, we first want to create a cabinet according to the actual need in Afghanistan which will be effective and cost-effective."
3. Cutaways
4. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan urgently needs a national army which the people can rely on. Now you can see the Minister of Defence is here, he should give you this confidence. We want an army that the people can trust and the army should have total control of the country, an army which indeed should protect our borders, an army in the service of defence of Afghanistan."
5. Wide shot meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan should move towards a government of the people. The people should share in the decisions of the government and should be aware of what the government's doing. We say transparency, we mean clear and bright, we should make decisions in the open."
7. Cutaway
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"I haven't had time to think about the formation of the cabinet and its members. I've had other things to do, give me time this evening to think about it. Tomorrow we'll meet and sit and talk. We were meant to do it today, but I had other things on, is that OK?"
9. Karzai walks off stage
10. Cutaway
11. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan and Tajik Islamic leader:
"I make a proposal to Mr Karzai regarding the formation of his cabinet. Mr Karzai should consult with the loya jirga on whatever formula he is working on. He should give precise consultation. The cabinet that he proposes should be sanctioned by the loya jirga and the loya jirga should be a hundred percent satisfied."
12. Exterior loya jirga members leaving
STORYLINE:
Moving to resolve one of Afghanistan's most contentious issues, newly elected President Hamid Karzai said on Monday he wanted to select the members of his own Cabinet, pledging it would be one that "meets the needs of the people".
He also called on the loya jirga, the Afghan grand council, to select from within its 1,600-strong membership a committee - one he said should name the commission that will in turn determine the form and membership of the country's legislature.
Karzai's comments came after the loya jirga spent two days unsuccessfully trying to pick a representative body for the nation.
He said the loya jirga's leadership did not realise it would be so difficult and time-consuming to fashion a new legislature and pick its members.
The loya jirga started a day late and was still running a day after its scheduled Sunday culmination.
Karzai, the leader of Afghanistan's interim government, was chosen to lead its 18-month transitional administration last week.
He said the grand council should name people to stay behind after it adjourns and choose a commission to establish the structure of the assembly.
The loya jirga adjourned until Tuesday morning, delaying the ending another day, and it was still unclear exactly when the council would wind up its work.
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1. Wide shot loya jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Regarding the formation of the transitional government, we first want to create a cabinet according to the actual need in Afghanistan which will be effective and cost-effective."
3. Cutaways
4. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan urgently needs a national army which the people can rely on. Now you can see the Minister of Defence is here, he should give you this confidence. We want an army that the people can trust and the army should have total control of the country, an army which indeed should protect our borders, an army in the service of defence of Afghanistan."
5. Wide shot meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan should move towards a government of the people. The people should share in the decisions of the government and should be aware of what the government's doing. We say transparency, we mean clear and bright, we should make decisions in the open."
7. Cutaway
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"I haven't had time to think about the formation of the cabinet and its members. I've had other things to do, give me time this evening to think about it. Tomorrow we'll meet and sit and talk. We were meant to do it today, but I had other things on, is that OK?"
9. Karzai walks off stage
10. Cutaway
11. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan and Tajik Islamic leader:
"I make a proposal to Mr Karzai regarding the formation of his cabinet. Mr Karzai should consult with the loya jirga on whatever formula he is working on. He should give precise consultation. The cabinet that he proposes should be sanctioned by the loya jirga and the loya jirga should be a hundred percent satisfied."
12. Exterior loya jirga members leaving
STORYLINE:
Moving to resolve one of Afghanistan's most contentious issues, newly elected President Hamid Karzai said on Monday he wanted to select the members of his own Cabinet, pledging it would be one that "meets the needs of the people".
He also called on the loya jirga, the Afghan grand council, to select from within its 1,600-strong membership a committee - one he said should name the commission that will in turn determine the form and membership of the country's legislature.
Karzai's comments came after the loya jirga spent two days unsuccessfully trying to pick a representative body for the nation.
He said the loya jirga's leadership did not realise it would be so difficult and time-consuming to fashion a new legislature and pick its members.
The loya jirga started a day late and was still running a day after its scheduled Sunday culmination.
Karzai, the leader of Afghanistan's interim government, was chosen to lead its 18-month transitional administration last week.
He said the grand council should name people to stay behind after it adjourns and choose a commission to establish the structure of the assembly.
The loya jirga adjourned until Tuesday morning, delaying the ending another day, and it was still unclear exactly when the council would wind up its work.
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The Afghan government has convened a council of more than 3,000 Afghan leaders to discuss a future with the Taliban as political partners.
But the Taliban is deeply suspicious of both organisations and neither they nor the opposition are there.
Al Jazeera's Charlotte Bellis reports from Kabul.
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Afghan President Agrees To Release Taliban Prisoners On Advice Of Loya Jirga
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Afghan President Ashraf Ghani, addressing a grand assembly of elders known as the Loya Jirga in Kabul on August 9, said that he will approve the release of 400 jailed Taliban militants.
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(8 Aug 2020) For a second day, a traditional council met in Kabul on Saturday to decide whether to release a final 400 Taliban prisoners, the last hurdle to negotiations between Afghanistan’s political leadership and the Taliban.
The Kabul-Taliban negotiations are seen as a critical step toward lasting peace in Afghanistan and a roadmap to what the country might look like after decades of war, with the Taliban joining the political mainstream.
They would follow a peace deal the insurgents signed with the United States earlier this year and would decide what constitutional changes would be made in a post-war Afghanistan, and how the rights of women and minorities would be protected.
On Saturday, Abdullah Abdullah, the council's chairman and head of the Afghan High Council for National Reconciliation, said that while discussion "happened in a friendly environment", there are still concerns over the release of prisoners.
Meanwhile the Taliban have rejected the meeting of the council of elders, known as Loya Jirga, claiming it had no legal status.
Since the US-Taliban deal in February, the Taliban have not attacked American and NATO troops, but have continued to wage war on Afghan security forces.
The US and NATO have also begun withdrawing some troops in line with the agreement.
The deal calls on the Taliban to guarantee that Afghanistan will not be used as a staging ground for attacks on the United States or its allies.
The withdrawal of US and NATO troops hinges on the Taliban meeting those commitments and not on a positive outcome to negotiations between the Taliban and Kabul's political leadership.
The deal also called on Kabul to free 5,000 Taliban while the insurgents were to free 1,000 government and military personnel.
Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has so far freed all but 400 of the Taliban prisoners, insisting on a traditional council to decide their release, saying their crimes were too serious for him to decide on alone.
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1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
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1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
5. Wide shot interior loya jirga
6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
8. People raising their hands
9. Side view of Karzai at podium
10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage
11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari:
Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)"
12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony
13. UPSOUND (Dari) Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: "I ask God for success. (Karzai repeats after him) On your behalf, I inaugurate him - is that OK? Do you agree?", Hadi shakes Karzai's hand to signify end of inauguration
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Thank you very much. I thank God and pray for success from God to serve you well - thank you very much."
15. Delegates applauding
16. Karzai awarding medal to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
17. Wide shot of ceremony
18. Karzai awarding medal to US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
19. Cutaway of delegates
20. Karzai awarding medal to General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander
22. Karzai leaving
23. Wide shot tent interior
STORYLINE:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Wednesday after appointing a cabinet for an 18-month transitional administration.
Joined in a simple ceremony by Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari, Karzai vowed to protect the freedom of Afghanistan and uphold the laws of government.
Service medals were later awarded to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander.
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, the Afghan leader earlier reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held office in the interim cabinet, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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1. Afghans in loya jirga tent attending a ceremony to mark handing over of site to loya jirga commission
2. Children carrying large jigsaw piece in shape of one of Afghanistan's provinces, handing it to a member of the commission (two children from each province carried jigsaw shapes that make up Afghanistan jigsaw)
3. Cutaway musicians playing
4. People in ceremonial dress fitting jigsaw piece into Afghanistan jigsaw
5. Wide of ceremony
6. Wide of children in ceremonial dress standing in front of jigsaw, holding hands singing
7. Delegates standing around outside in part of the loya jirga conference compound
8. Various of delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Wali Mohammed Saidi, Loya jirga delegate
"For Afghanistan's future we want to be able to bring rights to the people and to pay close attention to democracy."
10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Nadia Salih, Loya jirga delegate
"We want the future to be free of militarism, we want to see the disarming of people. Every mother wants this and so do I."
11. Two female delegates
12. Wide of women sitting outside dormitory
13. Message boards
Kabul - 7 June 2002
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmed Nader Nadery, Loya jirga commission spokesman
"This loya jirga will bring a legitimacy for the future transitional government and it's very important for everyone across the country and it will be the end point for three decades of evil war in this country."
Logar Province - 5 June 2002
15. Various of people queuing outside a tent to vote for loya jirga delegate
16. Various of people inside voting
17. Various of counting votes
18. Various of women sitting in tent
Kabul - 8 June 2002
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Manoel (correct spelling) de Almeida y Silva, United Nations spokesman
"We do not yet have a clear picture of all the delegates, however preliminary indications show us there are people coming from different strata with different political inclinations and many of what are the so-called independents. A very important aspect of this loya jirga is the participation of women. There are some 180 women at least participating in this process which is a significant change from the past, and indeed we hope a very clear indication of the role that women and human rights will play in the future of this country."
FILE - Kabul
20. Various of interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai at the ISAF headquarters, shaking hands with British troops
Kabul - 8 June 2002
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Najibullah Amin, Political scientist, Kabul University
"Because he (Karzai) doesn't have a history of war, fighting and bloodshed among other leaders, and so it improves the situation for being a leader in future."
Kabul - Recent
22. Various of loya jirga tent being erected
Kabul - 8 June 2002
23. Wide of tent with flags flying
24. Various of security which is extremely tight amid fears the loya jirga will be targetted by al-Qaida
25. Wide from top of building showing line of soldiers filing past tents within compound
STORYLINE:
Afghani delegates have gathered in Kabul ahead of this week's loya jirga, or grand council, to choose a new government.
One-thousand delegates have been chosen by ballot from districts throughout the country, while another 500 have been selected to represent Afghans living abroad.
Starting on Monday, they will decide the government to lead the country up to elections in about 18 months time.
They'll also decide its form and powers and its relationship to local warlords throughout the country.
On Saturday, delegates attended a ceremony to hand over the Kabul loya jirga site to the loya jirga commission.
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Meeting of Afghanistan Loya Jirga
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1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem
4. Various children singing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah:
"Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibility that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience."
6. Various delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai:
"Dear country fellows, the draft of the constitution, is very rich, with all the aspects of our history, our religion and our culture being covered in this draft. Also we considered in this draft all aspects of the international constitutions. The main points of this constitution are as follows."
8. Audience
9. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"Islam is the main base of this constitution, it's the base and inspiration of this constitution, the respect of the spirit of the freedom and holy war martyrs is also mentioned in this constitution, and in this constitution the family is the main base of this society."
10. Audience
11. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"The different committees of the constitution draft had lengthy discussions regarding whether the political system of Afghanistan should be parliamentary or presidential systems. We had one year discussions on it. We were also involved in these discussions Considering the current situation of the country and national benefits, we came to the conclusion that the best political system for the country is Islamic presidential republic system. Our reasons presenting this system are we do not have powerful national political parties in our countries."
12. Wide of Karzai at podium
STORYLINE:
A landmark constitutional convention began in Afghanistan on Sunday with solemn prayers, the hopeful songs of children and a stirring speech by the nation's former king, who echoed the aspirations of his war-weary countrymen with a call for unity and peace.
Some 500 delegates- from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles- were gathered at a huge tent in the battle-scarred capital, Kabul, to hammer out a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council. Among the issues they were expected to spar over were the role of Afghan women, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in a nation accustomed to fighting over it.
"The people are relying on you and you should not forget them," the 88-year-old former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, told the assembly. "I hope you will try your best to maintain peace, stability and the unity of the Afghan people."
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilize the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
The king spoke after a rendition of a traditional Afghan folk song by a group of young children, wearing Nike shirts under richly embroidered traditional vests, that brought several delegates to tears.
Security was extremely tight after warnings from the U.S. military that Taliban militants might try to attack the convention. Afghan soldiers lined the roads leading up to the meeting site, and everyone entering the tent - including the delegates - was patted down for weapons and explosives.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalize a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
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Taliban holds first loya jirga after capturing Kabul | Afghanistan News | Latest Updates | WION
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Reports announced that the Taliban won't make announcements on any new government until the last US troops left Afghanistan. However, the Taliban held the first jirga after capturing Kabul. Nearly 800 Muslim scholars attended the event.
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1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi
5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section
6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari):
"They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech)
7. Cutaway Afghan government members
8. Cutaway Jihad leader trying to calm down audience
9. Cutaway delegates
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Professor Abdul Rasul Sayaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
11. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A row broke up among delegates of the Loya Jirga, (Grand Council) in Kabul Wednesday.
Emotions ran high at Afghanistan's landmark constitutional convention when a woman delegate said Jihad (Holy war) leaders should face national and international trial for their actions in the middle nineties when Mujahidin rival sections were fighting for power in and around Kabul, after the fall of the communist government.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from the town of Farah said that "history won't forget what they have done".
The statement caused an outcry among Mujahidin delegates who stood up and surrounded the podium, accusing the delegate of being a communist.
The row ended up eventually after Abdul Rasul Sayaf, a Jihad leader, managed to calm down his supporters.
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed", he said.
The meeting resumed after Sayaf's speech.
It was the first time that the Loya Jirga, or grand council, was interrupted since it started on Sunday. The conference aims to draw up the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
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Loya jirga
A loya jirga (Pashto: لويه جرګه, "grand assembly") is a special type of jirga that is mainly organized for choosing a new head of state in case of sudden death, adopting a new constitution, or to settle national or regional issue such as war. It predates modern-day written or fixed-laws and is mostly favored by the Pashtun people but to a lesser extent by other nearby groups that have been influenced by Pashtuns (historically known as Afghans).
In Afghanistan, loya jirgas have been reportedly organized since at least the early 18th century when the Hotaki and Durrani dynasties rose to power.
History
The ancient Aryan tribes, who are hypothesized to have spoken Proto-Indo-Iranian, came down in intermittent waves from Central Asia and Afghanistan. They practiced a sort of jirga-system with two types of councils – simite and sabhā. The simite (the summit) comprised elders and tribal chiefs. The king also joined sessions of the simite. Sabhā was a sort of rural council. In India it is referred to as Samiti and Sabha. The Indian parliament however is divided into Rajya Sabha (Senate) and Lok Sabha (House of Representatives) after the Westminster model. The Panchayat Samiti is instead used for rural councils.
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Rare unrest at Loya Jirga as delegate criticises Jihadi leaders
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1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi
5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section
6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari):
"They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech)
7. Cutaway Afghan government members
8. Cutaway Jihad leader trying to calm down audience
9. Cutaway delegates
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Professor Abdul Rasul Sayaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
11. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A row broke up among delegates of the Loya Jirga, (Grand Council) in Kabul Wednesday.
Emotions ran high at Afghanistan's landmark constitutional convention when a woman delegate said Jihad (Holy war) leaders should face national and international trial for their actions in the middle nineties when Mujahidin rival sections were fighting for power in and around Kabul, after the fall of the communist government.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from the town of Farah said that "history won't forget what they have done".
The statement caused an outcry among Mujahidin delegates who stood up and surrounded the podium, accusing the delegate of being a communist.
The row ended up eventually after Abdul Rasul Sayaf, a Jihad leader, managed to calm down his supporters.
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed", he said.
The meeting resumed after Sayaf's speech.
It was the first time that the Loya Jirga, or grand council, was interrupted since it started on Sunday. The conference aims to draw up the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
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Security at loya jirga
(14 Dec 2003)
1. Wide of area around Loya Jirga tent
2. Pan to Loya Jirga tent
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1. Wide of area around Loya Jirga tent
2. Pan to Loya Jirga tent
3. Mid shot of Loya Jirga tent
4. Various of security around Loya Jirga tent
5. Wide interior of delegates attending Loya Jirga
6. Afghan President Hamid Karzai entering tent
7. Wide interior of delegates attending Loya Jirga
STORYLINE:
Security was tight in the Afghan capital, Kabul on Sunday as around 500 delegates gathered in a huge tent to draw up a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council.
The US military had warned that Taliban militants might try to attack the Kabul convention.
Afghan soldiers lined the roads leading up to the meeting site, and everyone entering the tent - including the delegates - were checked for weapons and explosives.
Among the issues discussed: the draft constitution, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in the country.
President Hamid Karzai also spoke about the continuing threat of terrorism in Afghanistan.
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilise the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalise a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
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Afghan elders and Karzai differ over pact timing
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai has said he will not sign a security pact with the US until after elections in 2014, but many in the Loya Jirga assembly disagree.
2:16
UN is providing protection for outspoken female Loya Jirga member
(18 Dec 2003)
December 18, 2003
1. Wide shot news conference
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December 18, 2003
1. Wide shot news conference
2. SOUNDBITE (English) Reporter question:
"... saying that there was a threat of violence and prevention of expression of views in the loya jirga. What is the United Nations comments or concern?"
3. SOUNDBITE (English): Manoel de Almeida e Silva, UN spokesman
"Of course, we - I think like everyone - we deplore very much the incident that marred the plenary session of yesterday. As facilitators to this process, we have made all the contacts and helped contacts among all those that such contacts could overcome this incident. In particular, we paid very close attention to security conditions for the young lady who spoke up at the session."
December 17, 2003
4. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
5. Cutaway women delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Malalai Joya, Delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
7. UPSOUND (Dari) Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
8. Wide of audience, Joya in women's section angrily pointing finger
9. Professor Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Jihad leader, trying to calm down audience
10. Cutaway delegates
11. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Professor Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
12. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A female delegate at a landmark constitutional council in Afghanistan is under UN protection after her outburst against Afghan warlords raised fears of a violent backlash.
The controversy threatens to overshadow the work of the council, or loya jirga, which has brought together 500 delegates from across Afghanistan to debate and ratify a new constitution that will set the war-plagued country on the road to democratic elections.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from western Farah province, has been moved from the compound housing other representatives and is staying at a guarded UN facility, though she is still attending sessions during the day, according to Nadeera Hayat Barhani, a female delegate from Balkh province.
UN spokesman Manoel de Almeida e Silva acknowledged that Joya was under UN protection, but would not say where.
Joya sparked controversy on Wednesday when she decried the positions of influence given to faction leaders such as former President Burhanuddin Rabbani and Abdul Rasul Sayyaf, a deeply conservative Islamist.
The men, who were key participants in Afghanistan's ruinous civil war in the 1990s, have been selected as committee chairmen at the council, or loya jirga.
Another female delegate, Anahika Adamir, said that Joya lost six family members in a rocket attack during the civil war and was being accompanied to and from the loya jirga site by UN personnel.
Joya's comments sparked a shouting match with several hard-liners at the jirga, who denounced her as a communist and demanded she be removed from the session.
On Thursday, Amnesty International criticised the treatment of Joya, saying she had received death threats on the floor of the assembly. They called on the council chairman, an ally of President Hamid Karzai, to ensure her right to speak.
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Meeting of Afghanistan Loya Jirga
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1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem
4. Various children singing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah:
"Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibility that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience."
6. Various delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"Islam is the main base of this constitution, it's the base and inspiration of this constitution, the respect of the spirit of the freedom and holy war martyrs is also mentioned in this constitution, and in this constitution the family is the main base of this society."
8. Audience
9. SOUNDBITE (Pashto) President Hamid Karzai:
"The different committees of the constitution draft had lengthy discussions regarding whether the political system of Afghanistan should be parliamentary or presidential systems. We had one year discussions on it. We were also involved in these discussions Considering the current situation of the country and national benefits, we came to the conclusion that the best political system for the country is Islamic presidential republic system. Our reasons presenting this system are we do not have powerful national political parties in our countries."
10. Wide of Karzai at podium
11. Mid shot of audience
12. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai:
"When the terrorist regime was finished in our country, still with the help of others they infiltrate our borders they continue the destruction inside of Afghanistan. With bombing they kill our innocent people and Imams (religious leaders) of our mosques. The terrorists are against the reconstruction of our country, they're against the improvement of our country's situation and also they don't want our children to go to schools. "
13. Zoom from woman clapping to audience
14. Wide of audience
STORYLINE:
A landmark constitutional convention began in Afghanistan on Sunday with solemn prayers, the hopeful songs of children and a stirring speech by the nation's former king, who echoed the aspirations of his war-weary countrymen with a call for unity and peace.
Some 500 delegates- from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles- were gathered at a huge tent in the battle-scarred capital, Kabul, to hammer out a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council. Among the issues they were expected to spar over were the role of Afghan women, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in a nation accustomed to fighting over it.
"The people are relying on you and you should not forget them," the 88-year-old former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, told the assembly. "I hope you will try your best to maintain peace, stability and the unity of the Afghan people."
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilize the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
The king spoke after a rendition of a traditional Afghan folk song by a group of young children, wearing Nike shirts under richly embroidered traditional vests, that brought several delegates to tears.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalize a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
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Meeting of Afghanistan Loya Jirga
(14 Dec 2003) CORRECTION FARSI CHANGED TO DARI
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1. Various former Afghan monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai arrive
2. Various delegates
3. Various former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah and President Hamid Karzai standing for national anthem
4. Various children singing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah:
"Respected representatives, people have trusted you and you do not forget them from now it is your duty and responsibilty that without any fear to uphold the rights of the people. You must take the pressure with patience."
6. Various delegates
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) President Hamid Karzai:
"With the name of God who is the most merciful and the most gracious. All the praises are to God and we seek help from him. Today for all of us, for the father (the former King) of the nation, the representatives of the people, for the respected leaders of the holy war (jihadi), for my colleagues of the cabinet, for the commission of the constitution, and for Mr Ibrahimi (Special U.N Representative for Afghanistan), the outsiders, the nation of Afghanistan it is very pleasant moment of prosperity that we the people of Afghanistan are gathered together."
8. Mid shot western observers
STORYLINE:
A landmark constitutional convention began in Afghanistan on Sunday with solemn prayers, the hopeful songs of children and a stirring speech by the nation's former king, who echoed the aspirations of his war-weary countrymen with a call for unity and peace.
Some 500 delegates- from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles- were gathered at a huge tent in the battle-scarred capital, Kabul, to hammer out a new constitution in a traditional loya jirga, or grand council. Among the issues they were expected to spar over were the role of Afghan women, Islam's place in politics and the sharing of power in a nation accustomed to fighting over it.
"The people are relying on you and you should not forget them," the 88-year-old former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, told the assembly. "I hope you will try your best to maintain peace, stability and the unity of the Afghan people."
The loya jirga is a key step in the two-year drive to stabilize the country under an empowered central government, and is supposed to lead to landmark national elections slated for June.
The king spoke after a reading from the Quran by a blind cleric and a rendition of a traditional Afghan folk song by a group of young children, wearing Nike shirts under richly embroidered traditional vests, that brought several delegates to tears.
Security was extremely tight after warnings from the U.S. military that Taliban militants might try to attack the convention. Afghan soldiers lined the roads leading up to the meeting site, and everyone entering the tent - including the delegates - was patted down for weapons and explosives.
Many delegates wore fine silk robes, some with western suit jackets slung over them. Yellow, burgundy and cream colored turbans jutted out from the crowd, as did the simple woolen caps worn famously by slain former Northern Alliance commander Ahmed Shah Masood.
It could take 10 days to several weeks for the loya jirga, meeting at a Kabul college campus, to finalize a 160-article draft drawn up by a constitutional commission.
Delegates predicted fiery arguments over calls by the U.S.-backed President Hamid Karzai for a strong chief executive, with opponents pushing for a prime minister who would share power. Karzai this week said he would not stand in next year's elections if a strong prime minister's post is created.
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Delegates gather for second day to decide constitution
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1. Wide shot of Loya Jirga
2. Women in audience
3. Pan from right to left of front row delegates (Uzbek warlord Abdul Rashid Dostum in blue green striped jacket)
4. Man addressing jirga
5. Women listening
6. Little girl singing
7. Wide shot of row of delegates listening
8. Man addressing loya jirga
9. Delegates listening
10. Wide shot of loya jirga
11. Man addressing loya jirga
12. Foreign Minister Abdullah Abdullah
13. Wide shot of loyal jirga
STORYLINE:
The loya jirga -- Afghanistan's grand council -- began its second day of talks on Monday aimed at finalizing the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
Hundreds of delegates, from village mullahs to Western-educated exiles, gathered in a huge tent in the capital Kabul.
Hundreds of soldiers guarded the event after warnings from the US military that militants might try to attack.
The council is deciding vital issues like the makeup of Islamic Afghanistan and the role of the country's women.
President Hamid Karzai pressed on Sunday for a strong presidential system that would stand up to the resurgent Taliban and make the country safe for aid workers and foreign investors.
The 160-article draft constitution foresees no post of prime minister in a highly centralized government and would allow the president to appoint top officials, even in the provinces, where warlords continue to hold power.
Karzai said this week he would not run in the scheduled June elections if a strong prime minister's post is created.
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The brave and historical speech of Malalai Joya in the LJ
Dec.17, 2003, Loya Jirga in Kabul
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When her time came to make her 3-minute statement, she tugged her black headscarf over her hair, stepped up to the microphone, and with emotional electricity made the speech that would alter her life.
After she spoke, there was a moment of stunned silence. Then there was an uproar. Male mujahideen, some who literally had guns at their feet, rushed towards her, shouting. She was brought under the protection of UN security forces.
In a nation where few dare to say the word "warlord" aloud, Joya had spoken fiercely against a proposal to appoint high clergy members and fundamentalist leaders to guide planning groups. She objected that several of those religious leaders were war criminals who should be tried for their actions—not national heroes to influence the new government.
Despite the commands of Assembly Chairman, Joya refused to apologize.
Today, as a result of her legendary actions, Malalai Joya has become popular hero in Afghanistan. She speaks at rallies where thousands of people carry her photo high.
2:36
Loya Jirga debates future of Afghan administration
(15 Jun 2002)
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1. Wide shot of interior of loyal jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Shir Mohammed Khan Bahaduri, delegate to the loyal jirga:
"Those of you who say you want to support the king and his position in Afghanistan are not giving him your real support, your real agenda is to disrupt and disturb the loyal jirga meeting."
3. Mohammed Ismel Asimyar, Chairman of loyal jirga motioning the speaker to sit down
4. Shir Mohammed Khan Bahaduri, still arguing
5. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Mohammed Ismel Asimyar, Chairman:
"Sit down wait for your turn."
6. Unnamed man from the audience gets onto the podium, grabs the microphone endorsing the chairman, and asking the speaker to stop disrupting the meeting
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Yunus Qanooni, Interior Minister:
"Sit down"
8. Hamid Karzai walking up to the podium being applauded
9. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Hamid Karzai, President-elect of Afghanistan:
"When the loyal jirga has finished its meeting, we should all meet yet again for more discussions of this nature"
10. Wide shot of everyone applauding.
STORYLINE:
Afghan statesmen lined up behind microphones at the loyal jirga in Kabul on Saturday, for a further day of airing grievances and ideas about their nation's future.
With the selection of Hamid Karzai as president of an 18-month transitional government, the loyal jirga, or grand council, turned its attention to rounding out the rest of the new administration -- including a 111-seat legislature.
But by mid morning on Saturday, two days after Karzai's victory, the subject had not come up. Instead, delegates spoke on a variety of topics. Their message rang resoundingly clear: Listen to us.
"If people want peace, they will have to accept all the decisions of the delegates here. If people want war, then they won't accept any of our decisions," said delegate Halima Khazan from eastern Gardez.
Mohammad Kazem Ahang, a loyal jirga commission member, said Saturday afternoon that the council would finish its business on Monday, a day later than scheduled, after it completes the task of fashioning a new legislature.
The beginning of the grand council last week was delayed a day over questions about the role of the former king.
Interior Minister Yunus Qanooni, who offered to resign earlier this week, scolded delegates on Saturday for straying in their speeches and insulting each other.
Karzai, addressing the delegates, reminded them of the job ahead -- forming the legislative body of regional representatives that will guide the government into the future and represent the people.
He asked them to do so in the next few days, then stay on after the grand council adjourns.
Some delegates have complained the loyal jirga process is being unduly influenced by warlords who have created an atmosphere of intimidation.
The US special envoy to Afghanistan defended America's alliance with local warlords, saying they are necessary in the fight against al-Qaida and the Taliban.
Critics say those ties have undermined the current administration and may slow Karzai's ability to extend his authority after the new government emerges.
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Preparations for meeting of Loya Jirga in Kabul
(8 Jun 2002)
Kabul - 8 June 2002
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1. Afghans in loya jirga tent attending a ceremony to mark handing over of site to loya jirga commission
2. Children carrying large jigsaw piece in shape of one of Afghanistan's provinces, handing it to a member of the commission (two children from each province carried jigsaw shapes that make up Afghanistan jigsaw)
3. Cutaway musicians playing
4. People in ceremonial dress fitting jigsaw piece into Afghanistan jigsaw
5. Wide of ceremony
6. Wide of children in ceremonial dress standing in front of jigsaw, holding hands singing
7. Delegates standing around outside in part of the loya jirga conference compound
8. Various of delegates
9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Wali Mohammed Saidi, Loya jirga delegate
"For Afghanistan's future we want to be able to bring rights to the people and to pay close attention to democracy."
10. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Nadia Salih, Loya jirga delegate
"We want the future to be free of militarism, we want to see the disarming of people. Every mother wants this and so do I."
11. Two female delegates
12. Wide of women sitting outside dormitory
13. Message boards
Kabul - 7 June 2002
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Ahmed Nader Nadery, Loya jirga commission spokesman
"This loya jirga will bring a legitimacy for the future transitional government and it's very important for everyone across the country and it will be the end point for three decades of evil war in this country."
Logar Province - 5 June 2002
15. Various of people queuing outside a tent to vote for loya jirga delegate
16. Various of people inside voting
17. Various of counting votes
18. Various of women sitting in tent
Kabul - 8 June 2002
19. SOUNDBITE (English) Manoel (correct spelling) de Almeida y Silva, United Nations spokesman
"We do not yet have a clear picture of all the delegates, however preliminary indications show us there are people coming from different strata with different political inclinations and many of what are the so-called independents. A very important aspect of this loya jirga is the participation of women. There are some 180 women at least participating in this process which is a significant change from the past, and indeed we hope a very clear indication of the role that women and human rights will play in the future of this country."
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20. Various of interim Prime Minister Hamid Karzai at the ISAF headquarters, shaking hands with British troops
Kabul - 8 June 2002
21. SOUNDBITE (English) Professor Najibullah Amin, Political scientist, Kabul University
"Because he (Karzai) doesn't have a history of war, fighting and bloodshed among other leaders, and so it improves the situation for being a leader in future."
Kabul - Recent
22. Various of loya jirga tent being erected
Kabul - 8 June 2002
23. Wide of tent with flags flying
24. Various of security which is extremely tight amid fears the loya jirga will be targetted by al-Qaida
25. Wide from top of building showing line of soldiers filing past tents within compound
STORYLINE:
Afghani delegates have gathered in Kabul ahead of this week's loya jirga, or grand council, to choose a new government.
One-thousand delegates have been chosen by ballot from districts throughout the country, while another 500 have been selected to represent Afghans living abroad.
Starting on Monday, they will decide the government to lead the country up to elections in about 18 months time.
They'll also decide its form and powers and its relationship to local warlords throughout the country.
On Saturday, delegates attended a ceremony to hand over the Kabul loya jirga site to the loya jirga commission.
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Karzai appoints cabinet and is inuagurated by Loya Jirga
(19 Jun 2002)
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1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
5. Wide shot interior loya jirga
6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
8. People raising their hands
9. Side view of Karzai at podium
10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage
11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari:
Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)"
12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony
13. UPSOUND (Dari) Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: "I ask God for success. (Karzai repeats after him) On your behalf, I inaugurate him - is that OK? Do you agree?", Hadi shakes Karzai's hand to signify end of inauguration
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Thank you very much. I thank God and pray for success from God to serve you well - thank you very much."
15. Delegates applauding
16. Karzai awarding medal to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
17. Wide shot of ceremony
18. Karzai awarding medal to US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
19. Cutaway of delegates
20. Karzai awarding medal to General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander
22. Karzai leaving
23. Wide shot tent interior
STORYLINE:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Wednesday after appointing a cabinet for an 18-month transitional administration.
Joined in a simple ceremony by Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari, Karzai vowed to protect the freedom of Afghanistan and uphold the laws of government.
Service medals were later awarded to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander.
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, the Afghan leader earlier reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held office in the interim cabinet, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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1. Wide shot loya jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Regarding the formation of the transitional government, we first want to create a cabinet according to the actual need in Afghanistan which will be effective and cost-effective."
3. Cutaways
4. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan urgently needs a national army which the people can rely on. Now you can see the Minister of Defence is here, he should give you this confidence. We want an army that the people can trust and the army should have total control of the country, an army which indeed should protect our borders, an army in the service of defence of Afghanistan."
5. Wide shot meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan should move towards a government of the people. The people should share in the decisions of the government and should be aware of what the government's doing. We say transparency, we mean clear and bright, we should make decisions in the open."
7. Cutaway
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"I haven't had time to think about the formation of the cabinet and its members. I've had other things to do, give me time this evening to think about it. Tomorrow we'll meet and sit and talk. We were meant to do it today, but I had other things on, is that OK?"
9. Karzai walks off stage
10. Cutaway
11. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan and Tajik Islamic leader:
"I make a proposal to Mr Karzai regarding the formation of his cabinet. Mr Karzai should consult with the loya jirga on whatever formula he is working on. He should give precise consultation. The cabinet that he proposes should be sanctioned by the loya jirga and the loya jirga should be a hundred percent satisfied."
12. Exterior loya jirga members leaving
STORYLINE:
Moving to resolve one of Afghanistan's most contentious issues, newly elected President Hamid Karzai said on Monday he wanted to select the members of his own Cabinet, pledging it would be one that "meets the needs of the people".
He also called on the loya jirga, the Afghan grand council, to select from within its 1,600-strong membership a committee - one he said should name the commission that will in turn determine the form and membership of the country's legislature.
Karzai's comments came after the loya jirga spent two days unsuccessfully trying to pick a representative body for the nation.
He said the loya jirga's leadership did not realise it would be so difficult and time-consuming to fashion a new legislature and pick its members.
The loya jirga started a day late and was still running a day after its scheduled Sunday culmination.
Karzai, the leader of Afghanistan's interim government, was chosen to lead its 18-month transitional administration last week.
He said the grand council should name people to stay behind after it adjourns and choose a commission to establish the structure of the assembly.
The loya jirga adjourned until Tuesday morning, delaying the ending another day, and it was still unclear exactly when the council would wind up its work.
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3. Wide pan of members watching
4. Various of votes being counted
5. Wide shot of loya jirga members after vote counting
6. Various of officials greeting Hamid Karzai
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7. Wide shot of loya jirga meeting
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Ismail Qasim Yar, head of the Loya Jirga commission:
"The votes of Hamid Karzai, 1,295."
9. Various of members getting up to applaud and cheer
10. Wide of Karzai being congratulated
11. SOUNDBITE (Pashtun) Hamid Karzai, transitional president of Afghanistan:
"This a big vote of confidence that you have given me. I am a man, I am a weak man but I am here to serve you, the Afghan people. Our faith, our religion, I will serve our mujahedeen people, and I will serve in the development of our country. Thank you for your confidence."
12. Wide of the gathering
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13. Set up of Zalmay Khalilzad, US Envoy to Afghanistan
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Zalmay Khalilzad, US Envoy to Afghanistan:
"With this new beginning the country's put on a path to solve its problems, stand on its own feet, have the difficult problems that they've had left behind them. So, we're very hopeful and as an American official I'm very pleased with whatever role we've played in helping them get to this stage."
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Azim Nasir Zia, Spokesman for former king Zaher Shah:
"I consider this a very good first step - and from now on hopefully with some, with a lot of assistance rather, from our friends and all that, we'll be able to reconstruct the country - most important, reunite and reintegrate Afghanistan."
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Manoel de Almeida e Silva, UN Envoy to Afghanistan:
"The result is a vote today by the Loya Jirga, which is a very respected institution with binding decisions - the vast majority of the votes in favour of the election - or rather, the vast majority elected Chairman Karzai, so that's very welcome."
17. Wide shot of loya jirga
STORYLINE:
Hamid Karzai, the US-backed leader of the interim Afghan administration, was overwhelmingly elected on Thursday as head of the new transitional government to rule the country for the next 18 months.
The 44-year-old chairman of the current interim government won 1,295 votes from delegates to the grand council, or Loya Jirga which has been meeting this week in Kabul.
Three others had been nominated although one was disqualified for lack of support.
Karzai won thunderous applause when the results were announced by the commission chairman, Ismail Qasim Yar.
The voting represented the first steps towards democracy for a country emerging from the ravages of two decades of war and poverty.
Karzai, praised for his reconciliation efforts during six months in power, promised a brighter future if the country's 27 million people can put aside ethnic differences and work together in peace.
US Envoy to Afghanistan Zalmay Khalilzad sees Thursday's events as an opportunity for Afghanistan to experience a fresh start.
Afghanistan's former rulers, the Taliban, and their foreign fighters - including those affiliated with Osama bin Laden's al-Qaida network - were ousted in a US-led military campaign which followed the September 11 attacks.
The Taliban's departure was greeted with a massive international effort to help rebuild Afghanistan.
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1. Exterior tent where the loya jirga is due to take place
2. Tent
3. Delegates arriving
4. Set-up for press conference
5. SOUNDBITE: (English) Zalmay Khalilzad, United States Special Envoy to Afghanistan:
"They need to get their act together, they have an opportunity. We are here to be helpful, but this is ultimately their responsibility and they have an historic chance to turn a new page. They better grab it, they had one of these about 12 years ago, they missed the boat. Look what happened in Afghanistan, don't do it again."
6. Exterior of King's residence
7. Photo-call with Afghanistan's interim leader, Hamid Karzai and Mohammad Zaher Shah
8. Cutaway Mohammad Zaher Shah
9. Cutaway Karzai
10. Set-up for press conference
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Hamid Karzai, Afghanistan's interim leader :
"He will have the highest state protocol, as such, I am grateful to him for the kind words he has expressed about me, and for the confidence His Majesty has placed in me to go on and serve as the transition head of the administration that is after the Loya Jirga of course decides about it. As far as His Majesty is concerned I am very grateful for that, I will be as faithful and loyal to him as I have been in the past, thank you."
12. Tents at Loya Jirga centre
STORYLINE:
The opening session of the Loya Jirga, the grand council called to organise a new Afghan government, was postponed for a day on Monday as differences on the future role of the country's former king emerged.
The special U-S envoy to Afghanistan, Zalmay Khalilzad, said the former monarch, Mohammad Zaher Shah, would say later on Monday that he would not accept the post as head of state. The envoy said Zaher Shah would endorse interim leader Hamid Karzai for head of state.
He also said this was an historic opportunity for Afghanistan which they must not spurn.
The meeting was to have opened on Monday morning, with 1,550 delegates charged with selecting a new government to run the country until elections in 18 months time.
The opening session was reset for three p.m. local on Tuesday.
Leaders of the mainly Tajik northern alliance, who dominate the current interim regime, strongly oppose any role for Zaher Shah in the new government.
However, many of the delegates from the country's major ethnic group, the Pashtuns, want the ex-king to have a formal role in the next government.
The delegates, among them 200 women, must select a head of state, decide the framework of the transitional government and name ministers to key posts. The new government will lead for 18 months pending elections.
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1. Various of ISAF security at entrance to Loya Jirga
2. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Din Mohammed Jurat, Afghan national Police Chief:
"(Interim Afghan Leader Hamid) Karzai himself is a Pashtun. He's is the best leader now. Everybody has agreed to vote for him. And he is the only person who can keep all the ethnic groups together. So, Karzai is a Pashtun himself, there is no problem from Pashtuns."
3. Wide of ISAF troops in silhouette by security fence
STORYLINE:
Security has been stepped up at the Loya Jirga in Kabul after supporters of ex-King Shah found out that the former leader has renounced any role in the new Afghan government.
The move was aimed at defusing a crisis which forced a one-day delay in the opening of a grand council to select new leaders for this war-battered nation.
Some delegates expressed shock at the decision, which appeared to be aimed at pacifying the ethnic Tajik clique which took power through a United Nations brokered agreement last year after the US bombing campaign toppled the Taliban.
But ex-king Zaher Shah's announcement caused bitter complaints among some ethnic Pashtun delegates who had wanted the ex-monarch to have a greater role in the running of Afghanistan.
Some threatened to boycott the procedures, which are to begin on Tuesday.
Afghan national Police Chief Din Mohammed Jurat said that rumours that some of Shah's Pashtun supporters would become violent were not true because their ethic group was already well represented by Hamid Karzai.
An ethnic Pashtun, Zaher Shah returned to Afghanistan in April after 29 years in exile in Italy, to try to unite is shattered homeland, deeply divided along ethnic lines after 23 years of relentless war.
However the divisions appear to be widening.
In his statement, Zaher Shah said he fully supported Karzai for transitional president to rule this war-shattered nation for the next 19 months, spearhead the writing of a new constitution and oversee preparations for nationwide polls.
There were rumours of some security problems during the last 24 hours, although the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF), led by the British and put in place by a Untied Nations resolution, held an earlier news conference to say there were no security concerns.
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(17 Dec 2003)
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1. Wide of Loya Jirga conference room
2. Cutaway women delegates
3. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Malalai Joya, delegate from Farah:
"They (the Jihad leaders) should face a national and international trial. And if our people forget them, history will not forget them. What they have done is recorded in our country's history."
4. UPSOUND: (Dari), voice of Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi, Conference leader:
"Please be polite, do not attack other people!"
5. Close-up of Conference leader Professor Sebghatullah Mojadedi
5. Wide of audience, Joya in the women section branding her fist to the men section
6. Wide of Mujahidin men shouting and waving around podium, UPSOUND (Dari):
"They're communists! They're communists!" (referring to Joya's speech)
7. Cutaway Afghan government members
8. Cutaway Jihad leader trying to calm down audience
9. Cutaway delegates
10. SOUNDBITE: (Dari), Professor Abdul Rasul Sayaf, Jihad leader:
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga (grand council) and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed."
11. Wide of conference room
STORYLINE:
A row broke up among delegates of the Loya Jirga, (Grand Council) in Kabul Wednesday.
Emotions ran high at Afghanistan's landmark constitutional convention when a woman delegate said Jihad (Holy war) leaders should face national and international trial for their actions in the middle nineties when Mujahidin rival sections were fighting for power in and around Kabul, after the fall of the communist government.
Malalai Joya, a delegate from the town of Farah said that "history won't forget what they have done".
The statement caused an outcry among Mujahidin delegates who stood up and surrounded the podium, accusing the delegate of being a communist.
The row ended up eventually after Abdul Rasul Sayaf, a Jihad leader, managed to calm down his supporters.
"I am sure that some people want to undermine this Loya Jirga and want us to fail. But if the Jirga fails, it mean that all Afghan people have failed", he said.
The meeting resumed after Sayaf's speech.
It was the first time that the Loya Jirga, or grand council, was interrupted since it started on Sunday. The conference aims to draw up the country's first post-Taliban constitution.
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1. Karzai getting out of car
2. Troops assembled for Karzai's arrival
3. Various of ceremony, Karzai inspecting guard
4. Karzai entering loya jirga tent
5. Wide shot interior loya jirga
6. UPSOUND (Dari) Karzai announcing name of one of cabinet ministers
7. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Raise you hands and shout your support for this cabinet."
8. People raising their hands
9. Side view of Karzai at podium
10. Wide shot of interior, officials on stage
11. UPSOUND (Dari) Hamid Karzai and Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari:
Hadi: "I'll follow the laws of Holy Islam (Karzai repeats after him) I'll protect the freedom of the country and the laws of the government (Karzai repeats after him)"
12. Wide shot of inauguration ceremony
13. UPSOUND (Dari) Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari: "I ask God for success. (Karzai repeats after him) On your behalf, I inaugurate him - is that OK? Do you agree?", Hadi shakes Karzai's hand to signify end of inauguration
14. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Thank you very much. I thank God and pray for success from God to serve you well - thank you very much."
15. Delegates applauding
16. Karzai awarding medal to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi
17. Wide shot of ceremony
18. Karzai awarding medal to US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad
19. Cutaway of delegates
20. Karzai awarding medal to General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander
22. Karzai leaving
23. Wide shot tent interior
STORYLINE:
Afghan President Hamid Karzai was inaugurated on Wednesday after appointing a cabinet for an 18-month transitional administration.
Joined in a simple ceremony by Chief Justice Fazil Hadi Oshinwari, Karzai vowed to protect the freedom of Afghanistan and uphold the laws of government.
Service medals were later awarded to UN Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi, US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad and General John McColl, outgoing ISAF commander.
Resolving the dicey issue of his executive Cabinet, the Afghan leader earlier reappointed the interim government's defence and foreign ministers and named an ethnic Pashtun governor from eastern Afghanistan as interior minister.
Karzai also appointed his top adviser, Ashraf Ghani, as finance minister.
The appointments address a key concern of many delegates to the loya jirga, or grand council.
The top three Cabinet posts were dominated by ethnic Tajiks from the Panjshir Valley who had been part of the northern alliance of opposition groups that fought the Taliban militia.
Key appointments included defence minister Mohammed Fahim, the prickly Panjshiri who controls many of the northern alliance forces still in Kabul.
Fahim was also named a deputy president.
Also reappointed as foreign minister was Dr. Abdullah, Fahim's fellow Tajik, who had been the northern alliance's main public face during the final weeks of its campaign to retake Kabul.
The other Panjshiri who had held office in the interim cabinet, Yunus Qanooni, was named education minister.
A Pashtun, Taj Mohammed Wardak, was named interior minister.
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1. Wide shot loya jirga meeting
2. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Regarding the formation of the transitional government, we first want to create a cabinet according to the actual need in Afghanistan which will be effective and cost-effective."
3. Cutaways
4. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan urgently needs a national army which the people can rely on. Now you can see the Minister of Defence is here, he should give you this confidence. We want an army that the people can trust and the army should have total control of the country, an army which indeed should protect our borders, an army in the service of defence of Afghanistan."
5. Wide shot meeting
6. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"Afghanistan should move towards a government of the people. The people should share in the decisions of the government and should be aware of what the government's doing. We say transparency, we mean clear and bright, we should make decisions in the open."
7. Cutaway
8. SOUNDBITE (Pashtu) Hamid Karzai, President of Afghanistan:
"I haven't had time to think about the formation of the cabinet and its members. I've had other things to do, give me time this evening to think about it. Tomorrow we'll meet and sit and talk. We were meant to do it today, but I had other things on, is that OK?"
9. Karzai walks off stage
10. Cutaway
11. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Professor Burhanuddin Rabbani, former president of Afghanistan and Tajik Islamic leader:
"I make a proposal to Mr Karzai regarding the formation of his cabinet. Mr Karzai should consult with the loya jirga on whatever formula he is working on. He should give precise consultation. The cabinet that he proposes should be sanctioned by the loya jirga and the loya jirga should be a hundred percent satisfied."
12. Exterior loya jirga members leaving
STORYLINE:
Moving to resolve one of Afghanistan's most contentious issues, newly elected President Hamid Karzai said on Monday he wanted to select the members of his own Cabinet, pledging it would be one that "meets the needs of the people".
He also called on the loya jirga, the Afghan grand council, to select from within its 1,600-strong membership a committee - one he said should name the commission that will in turn determine the form and membership of the country's legislature.
Karzai's comments came after the loya jirga spent two days unsuccessfully trying to pick a representative body for the nation.
He said the loya jirga's leadership did not realise it would be so difficult and time-consuming to fashion a new legislature and pick its members.
The loya jirga started a day late and was still running a day after its scheduled Sunday culmination.
Karzai, the leader of Afghanistan's interim government, was chosen to lead its 18-month transitional administration last week.
He said the grand council should name people to stay behind after it adjourns and choose a commission to establish the structure of the assembly.
The loya jirga adjourned until Tuesday morning, delaying the ending another day, and it was still unclear exactly when the council would wind up its work.
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