| Ahmedzai Wazir tribes on Wednesday announced that they would not participate in the joint Pak-Afghan jirga in Kabul next week to protest against what they called “the US occupation” of that country. Around 700 delegates – 350 each from Pakistan and Afghanistan – will attend the August 9-11 jirga to devise strategies against insurgency in Afghanistan. “The Ahmedzai Wazir tribes announce a boycott of the jirga, and in the presence of the US occupation we cannot negotiate with (Hamid) Karzai,” the major tribe’s jirga decided unanimously in Wana, a tribal elder who attended the meeting told Daily Times by phone. |