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Paktika jirga decides against blood feud marriages

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SHARANA (Pajhwok): Tribal elders in the Zarghun Shar district of southeastern Paktika province on Monday decided to ban giving into marriage girls to settle blood feuds, a practice called ’Bad’.

The decision was announced at a jirga of elders, said Gul Khan, a tribal elder, who attended the jirga.

Khan told Pajhwok Afghan News the jirga had decided that no one in the district would use women to settle disputes.

He said they inherited the . . .

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