Based on the flag provided by the CIA World Factbook. Fixed outer edges, size of stripes, hues based on World Flag Database. Note that the arms still arent quite right. File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old... This article is part of the series The politics of Afghanistan are complex and confusing. Almost two years after the former Taliban regime was overthrown in a U.S.-led invasion, Afghanistan remains in many ways a coherent state in name only. President Hamid Karzai is said to govern the capital and not much else in Afghanistan...
Politics of Afghanistan
The Constitution of Afghanistan became the official law of Afghanistan when the 2003 Loya jirga approved it by the consensus on January 4, 2004. It evolved out of the Afghan Constitution Commission mandated by the Bonn Agreement. The constitution provides for an elected President and National Assembly. Although Presidential elections...
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The politics of Afghanistan are complex and confusing. Almost two years after the former Taliban regime was overthrown in a U.S.-led invasion, Afghanistan remains in many ways a coherent state in name only. President Hamid Karzai is said to govern the capital and not much else in Afghanistan...
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The President of Afghanistan is Afghanistans Head of State. The current President of Afghanistan is Hamid Karzai, as of December 2004. He is the first democratically elected holder of that post. Afghanistan has only intermittently been a republic - between 1973-1992 and from 2001 onwards - at other times being...
President Vice President The Cabinet of Ministers of Afghanistan is made of the heads of all the government ministries. The president selects the members of cabinet with the approval of the National Assembly of the country. These are the current members of the Cabinet. Defense Minister Mohammed Fahim Foreign Minister Dr. Abdullah Interior...
Cabinet of Ministers
Chief Justice of Afghanistan is the head of the Afghan Supreme Court. The chief justice now is Sheikh Hadi Shinwari ...
Chief Justice The Afghan Supreme Court (Stera Mahkama) is the court of last resort in Afghanistan. It was created by the Constitution of Afghanistan, which was approved on January 4, 2004. Its creation was called for by the Bonn Agreement, which read in part: The judicial power of Afghanistan shall be...
Supreme Court
Elections in Afghanistan gives information on election and election results in Afghanistan. An election is a process in which a vote is held to elect candidates to an office. It is the mechanism by which a democracy fills elective offices in the legislature, and sometimes the executive and judiciary, and...
Elections
A political party is a political organization subscribing to a certain ideology or formed around very special issues with the aim to participate in power, usually by participating in elections. See political party for a more comprehensive discussion. Afghanistan has a multi-party system in development, with numerous parties in...
Political Parties
The House of Elders, also natively known as the Meshrano Jirga is the upper house of the bicameral national assembly of Afghanistan (Pashtu/Dari-Persian: Afğānistān افغانستان) is a country in Central Asia. It is bordered by Iran in the west, Pakistan in the south and east, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Tajikistan in the north, and China in the...
Afghanistan. It consists of an unspecified number of local dignitaries and experts appointed by provincial councils, district councils, and the president. This house forms more of an advisory role rather than a maker of law. Still, the house has some veto power.
A jirga (occasionally jirgah) is a tribal assembly of elders which takes decisions by consensus, particularly among the Pashtun ethnic group, but also in other ethnic groups near them; they are most common in Afghanistan and among the Pashtun in the tribal areas in Pakistan near its border with Afghanistan.
The jirga was also used as a court in cases of criminal conduct, but this usage is being replaced by formal courts some settled areas of Pakistan and Afghanistan, elswhere it is still used as courts in tribal regions.
MeshranoJirga — "elders' jirga", the upper house of the Afghan legislature
The executive council of the Wolesi Jirga (House of the People) is elected at the opening of the legislative term while the vice presidents, secretary and deputy secretary of the MeshranoJirga (House of the Elders) are elected for one year at the beginning of each annual session.
The Wolesi Jirga (House of the People) is competent to appoint, on proposal from one third of its members, an enquiry commission to investigate and study the conduct of the government and the actions of the administration.
Afterwards, the budget proposal, together with the comments of the MeshranoJirga (House of the Elders) and of the committee concerned, are presented to the house for consideration and decision.
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