The Pakistani-Afghan jirga commission members will hold their first joint meeting in Islamabad on Monday, the state-run Associated Press of Pakistan ( APP) reported.

To constitute a grand jirga commission will highlight the issues to be discussed in the meeting, while other issues include cooperation on war against terrorism, said the report.

Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf and his Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai agreed on holding a joint jirga commission meeting during their talks hosted by U.S. President George W. Bush in White House in September 2006.

It was decided that the two-commission will work out modalities for the formulation of grand jirga and will give its proposals to the government.

Accordingly, the five-member Pakistani jirga will be headed by Interior Minister Aftab Ahmed Khan Sherpao, while the nine-member Afghan jirga will be led by known Jihadi leader Pir Sayed Ahmad Gilani.

This is part of the joint political efforts of both Pakistani and Afghan governments for stopping illegal cross-border movement and securing peace on both sides of the Pakistani-Afghan border.

Source: Xinhua