Meaning of the community councils are often found in situations involving disputes between two persons; Jirga may be part of the dispute in these cases are. Parties to the dispute usually start with finding a mediator, someone who chooses such a high religious leader, a local notable, or a specialized mediation (known as a Khan or Malik). Mediator to hear from both sides, and then formed a Jirga elders of the community, be careful to supporters of both parties to take. Jirga then to examine the file, and after discussing the matter comes to decisions about how the problem, the mediator who shall thereupon be treated. Jirga conclusion in this case be accepted. Jirga a village in Panjshir Province in Afghanistan.
Jirga is also used as a criminal court, but this use was replaced by the formal courts in some areas settled in Pakistan and Afghanistan, elsewhere it is still used as a court in the tribal areas.
This jirga held the prestige of the courts in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Although the political representative, appointed by the national government, maintaining public order by the Frontier Crimes Regulation (FCR), the real power lies in the Jirga. Political agents of law and order in the tribal areas with the help of jirgas to maintain. The Jirga can be awarding the death penalty, stoning in cases of adultery, or expulsion from the community.
The Sindh High Court ban applies jirgas in April 2004, because the sentences are sometimes inhuman given to the people, especially women and men who are HIV spreand to the public. But the ban is blatantly ignored and did nothing about it until now.
In recent military operations in al-Qaeda and the Taliban in the tribal agencies bordering Afghanistan to the troubled southern Pakistani jirgas play an important role of moderator between the government and militants.