ISLAMABAD, April 23: The second round of Pakistan and Afghanistan jirga commissions’ meeting which was previously scheduled for April 8, will now be held on May 3, said Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Sherpao.

He told APP that the meeting was delayed for a month due to certain reasons and would be held in Kabul next month.

Mr Sherpao said the last meeting which was held in Islamabad in March was successful in understanding each other’s point of view and said the meeting would held in forging a joint mechanism for avoiding untoward incidents between the two countries.

The minister said during the maiden meeting between the two jirga commissions convened by Pakistan, both sides reaffirmed their resolve to hold jirga or jirgas as one of the measures to counter terrorism and work for eliminating this menace from the areas affected by it.

He said this was the first direct interaction between the jirga commissions of the two countries.It was decided by the two jirga commissions that they would build further on their initial interaction and hold their next meeting in Kabul between 8th to 11th April, 2007, in which inter alia, dates for holding of jirgas will mutually be decided.—APP