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...
Constitution
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
House of the People The House of Elders, also natively known as the Meshrano Jirga is the upper house of the bicameral national assembly of 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...
House of Elders
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 the People, also known natively as the The Wolesi Jirga is the A lower house is one of two chambers of a bicameral legislature, the other chamber being the upper house. In comparison with the upper house, the lower house is usually: More powerful. Democratically elected (and based on fair apportionment). Larger in membership. Elected for a shorter term of years. The...
lower house of the In government, bicameralism is the practice of having two legislative or parliamentary chambers. Thus, a bicameral parliament or bicameral legislature is a parliament or legislature which consists of two Chambers or Houses. Bicameralism is an essential and defining feature of a classical republic. Theory Although the ideas on which bicameralism...
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.
Wolesi Jirga, though it is the lower house, is actually the house that bears the greater burden of law making in the country. It consists of 250 delegates directly elected through a system of Proportional Representation (PR) describes various multi-winner electoral systems which try to ensure that the proportional support gained by different groups is accurately reflected in the election result. Proportional representation is also used to describe this (intended) effect. In practice this usually involves ensuring that political parties in parliament or...
proportional representation. Members are elected by district and serve for five years. At least 64 delegates (two from each province) must be women; they are appointed by the president who also nominates two representatives of the physically disabled, and two Kuchis are an ethnic group of nomads in Afghanistan. They represent an estimated six million of Afghanistans 25 million people. The group is singled out by the United Nations Assistance Mission in Afghanistan as one of the largest vulnerable populations in the country. Hashmat Ghani Ahmadzai is their ethnic...
Kuchi nomads. It has the primary responsibility for making and ratifying laws and approving the actions of the president.
The National Assembly, as envisaged in the Constitution, consists of two houses: the WolesiJirga (the House of the People) and the Meshrano Jirga (the House of Elders).
Each province was given proportionate representation in the WolesiJirga according to its population.
Each member of the WolesiJirga will enjoy a five year term expiring on the twenty-first of June of the fifth year (June 21, 2010).
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.
The jirga holds the prestige of a court in the tribal areas of Pakistan.
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