KABUL, June 30 (Xinhua) — The much-awaited Loya Jirga or grand assembly of religious scholars and elders opened in Afghanistan’s capital Kabul on Thursday, the Afghan caretaker government’s chief spokesman Zabihullah Mujahid said.
Mujahid told the state-run Mili Television that the Jirga allows people of Afghanistan and even representatives of Iran and Pakistan-based Afghan refugees to attend it. Some 70 person