Afghan leaders who met at the December 2001
Bonn Conference
After Operation Enduring Freedom in which the Taliban government was toppled in Afghanistan, in December 2001, the German city of Bonn hosted a conference – widely known as the Bonn Conference – of Afghan leaders at Hotel Petersberg, to cho ...
which picked
Hamid Karzai to lead the
Afghan Transitional Authority
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*Something of or related to Afghanistan, a country in Southern-Central Asia
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also agreed that a Constitutional Loya Jirga should be convened to draft a new constitution.
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The
Emergency Loya Jirga of 2002 set up an
Afghan Constitutional Commission, of 35 members, which sat from October 2002 until March 2003, prior to submitting their draft to President Karzai.
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That draft was made public in November 2003.
502 delegates were selected, via regional caucuses, to participate in the Constitutional Loya Jirga to debate, amend the draft.
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In her thesis at the Naval Postgraduate School Zoe Sherman described the composition of the Constitutional Loya Jirga of 2002 as being unlike any previous Loya Jirga.
Ten committees were formed, each assigned to review specific articles.[
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The Constitutional Loya Jirga sat from December 13, 2003, to January 4, 2004.[
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Committee One: 45 articles, chaired by Ustad Rabani
Committee Two: 27 articles, chaired by Ustad Sayaf
Committee Three: 21 articles, chaired by Ahmad Nabi Muhammadi
Committee Four: 38 articles, chaired by Mohammad Tahir
Committee Five: 35 articles, chaired by Ayatullah Muhsini
Committee Six: 22 articles, chaired by Maulowi Gul Muhammad
Committee Seven: 40 articles, chaired by Dr. Mashahed
Committee Eight: 46 articles, chaired by Ustad Farid
Committee Nine: 36 articles, chaired by Hashmat Ghani Ahmadzai
Committee Ten: 29 articles, chaired by Maulowi Syd Muhammad Hanif
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