The All Afghan Council of Elders (Loya Jirga) will be convened in Kabul this Wednesday. This was reported by the Afghan Kabul News TV channel on Monday.
According to him, more than 3 000 representatives from all regions of Afghanistan have been invited to participate. The All Afghan Council of Elders is supposed to work for three days.
Zabihullah Mujahid, a Spokesman for the radical Taliban movement (banned in the Russian Federation) that has come to power in the country, earlier said: "The Council will be held at the request of a number of Afghan theologians". He added that the upcoming All-Afghan meeting "would be attended by theologians and elders from every province and district of the country".
Kabul News also informed that discussion during the elders' meeting might be broadcast on radio, but no television coverage of the Loya Jirga sessions was envisaged.
In early June, Taliban Deputy Spokesman Inamullah Samangani said that "the political commission of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (the name used by the Taliban - TASS note) was working on a plan to convene an Afghan assembly to consult and exchange views on certain issues". The latest Loya Jirga was convened in Afghanistan in August 2020, a year before the radical movement came to power in Kabul.
The Taliban launched a massive operation to take control of Afghanistan after the US announced in the spring of 2021 that it had decided to withdraw its military forced from the country. On 15 August of the same year, the Taliban entered Kabul without fighting. On September 6, the radicals claimed control of all Afghan territory and the next day announced the composition of the provisional government, whose legitimacy has not yet been recognized by any country.
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Based on materials from TASS