As the High Peace Council gets closer to hosting one of the biggest national gatherings on peace called the Consultative Jirga scheduled for later this month, the Ministry of Finance confirmed that the event will cost Afs369 million – almost $5 million. 
 
At least 2,500 delegates from around the country, 30 percent of them women, will attend the Jirga to determine the right way towards the peace process as well as the red lines for talks with the Taliban, according to the High Peace Council.
 
The Finance Ministry’s spokesman Shamroz Khan Masjidi told TOLOnews that the money will be paid from the Presidential Palace’s "code 91" budget. 
 
The council on Thursday, April 4, announced that the 19-member organizing committee's structure has also been completed which is led by President Ghani’s Special Envoy Umer Daudzai.  
 
In this episode of Mehwar, host Sadaf Amiri discusses the topic with Sayed Ali Kazimi, former MP and Ajmal Hodman, a lawyer.