PESHAWAR, Nov 22: The Jihadi shoora, commanders and tribal elders from Nangarhar, Laghman, Kunar and Nooristan provinces on Wednesday said it had become imperative to form shooras for the smooth running of provincial affairs after the fall of the Taliban.

In a statement, they recalled that there had been an eastern shoora in charge to oversee the affairs of the eastern provinces, but it lost its utility when the Mujahideen were driven out of power by the Taliban.

A new shoora, they said, would be set up after the formation of governments in the four provinces which would choose a new leader and adopt a new policy.

At the moment, they clarified, there existed no eastern shoora and those using its name had no constitutional authority.

The strong-worded statement has come in the wake of bickering in Nangarhar where a former governor, Haji Qadeer, an ally of the Northern Alliance, declared himself governor by using the platform of the defunct eastern shoora.

Meanwhile, Nooristan Jihadi shoora, in a separate statement, said that consultations were going on to install a new representative government in Nooristan after the fall of the Taliban.