The Dec. 6, 2001 Bonn Agreement among the four main political-ethnic factions in Afghanistan called for the creation of a special loya jirga to decide on the composition of an 18-month transitional government for Afghanistan. The transitional government is to be a bridge between the current six-month interim administration of 30 men and women headed by Hamid Karzai and a permanent government to be freely elected by the Afghan people in 2003.

On Feb. 7, the 20 members of the special independent commission for the convening of the emergency loya jirga were named. There are 17 men and three women, including one of the vice-chairs. Five members have law backgrounds, three have direct religious affiliations, five have nongovernmental humanitarian organizational ties, and two have professional military backgrounds.

The Office of the Special Representative of the U.N. Secretary-General for Afghanistan provided the following list.

 

Name	Function	Profession/Background
Qasimyar, Ismael, Mr.	Chairman	Lawyer, expert in constitutional law
Hoquamal, Mahbooba, Mrs.	Vice Chair	Proffesor of Law & Political Science at the University of Kabul and at the Afghan University in Peshawar
Abdul Aziz, Al-Haj, Mr.	Vice Chair	Proffesor; Dean of the Sahria Faculty of Kabul University
Ahang, Mohammed Kazim, Mr.	Head of the Relations Committee	Head of the Faculty of Journalism at the University of Kabul; worked with NGOs
Ameer Mohammed Essa, Mr.	Commission Member	Teacher, 25 years of experience in education
Borgai, Mohammed Taher, Mr.	Head of the Drafting Committee	Ph.D. Germany in Law and science; lecturer Kabul University; former head of law-making Dep't, Min. of Justice, worked with HR NGOs
Jabbarkhel, Hajji Zaher Khan, Mr.	Commission Member	Previously director of Nasir Bagh refugee camp, near Peshawar
Hamidi, Mohammed Farid, Mr.	Commission Member	Lecturer in Law and Political Science
Karkin, Nur Mohammed, Mr.	Commission Member	Former civil servant in Northern Afghanistan and intellectual
Mudaber, Dr. Sadiq	Commission Member	Former Deputy Minister of Labor and Social Affairs
Mujahed, Prof. Sayed Amin	Commission Member	Professor of History at the University of Kabul; member of the Academy of Science
Nematy, Humaira, Mrs.	Commission Member	Professor of Law at Balkh University (Mazar-e Sharif)
Nidai, Prof. Mohammed Mahfooz	Head of the Criteria Committee	Professor of Geology and Mining at Kabul University; Deputy Head of the Academy of Science
Parlika, Soraya, Ms.	Commission Member	Women's rights activist and Former Head of the Afghan Red Crescent
Rahimy, Abdul Salam, Mr.	Commission Member	Director of the NGO Coordination of Humanitarian Aid (CHA)
Sayed Massoud, Ustad, Mr.	Commission Member	Master in Economics
Sebghatullah Sanjar, Col.	Commission Member	Young former military officer
Seljuki, Rashid, Mr.	Commission Member	Religious figure in Herat; worked with Islamic Cultural Shura during the Jihad; responsible for the Afghan mosque in Virginia, USA
Tawana, Dr. Sayed Musa	Commission Member	Known as one of the founders of the Islamist movement in Afghanistan; former Prof. of Theology at Kabul University
Wolwaliji, Assadullah, Mr.	Commission Member	Graduate from Military University; historian, intellectual and writer

By Col. Daniel Smith CDI Chief of Research dsmith@cdi.org

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