Afghan President Hamid Karzai announced the holding of a consultative grand council called the Afghanistan's National Consultative Peace Jirga or Peace Jirga in his inauguration speech on 19 November
Interior Minister Mohammad Hanif Atmar passing by Afghan National Police honor guards shortly before he stepped down after the NCPJ
Hamid Karzai is an Afghan politician who served as the seventh president of Afghanistan from 2002 to 2014, including as the first president of the Islamic Republic of Afghanistan from 2004 to 2014. He
Karzai in 2012
Karzai appointed as President of the Afghan Transitional Administration at the June 2002 loya jirga (grand assembly) in Kabul, Afghanistan.
Karzai speaking before the U.S. Congress in June 2004
Karzai's inauguration on 7 December 2004, after winning the presidential election.