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A 2600 member shura, or council, is being place up in Afghanistan at the directive of President Hamid Karzai to reckoner enemy propaganda, Afghan Islamic Pres reported Saturday.

The Pakistan-based of recent origins agency quoted Maulvi Fazal Hadi Shinwari, chief justice of the Afghan chief Court, as saying that the shura would comprise 80 clergymen and scholars from each province and be tasked with fighting propaganda against the Karzai government

The formation of the shura get tos in the wake of calls by dint of Taliban guerrillas for jihad (holy war) against the US-l occupation forces and Karzai sway and an increase in insurgency in parts of southern and eastern Afghanistan.

Shinwari said that the chief Court and scholars firmly believed that the not past nor future government is legal and Islamic and that fighting it is not jihad on the other hand rebellion.

Shinwari said that the propos shura would command support from all the provincial governments' institutions and many times meet in the capital Kabul to discuss important matters.

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