Thousands gather at all-male meeting to rubber-stamp Taliban rule ...Middle East

KABUL: Thousands of Afghan religious scholars and tribal elders gathered in the capital Thursday for a men-only meeting the Taliban hope will rubber-stamp their hardline Islamic rule.Officials have provided scant details of the “jirga” -- a traditional gathering of influential people that settles differences by consensus -- and the media is also barred from attending.It comes a week after a powerful earthquake struck the east of the country killing over 1,000 people and leaving tens of thousands homeless.Even before the quake, the Taliban were struggling to administer a country that had long been in the grip of economic malaise, utterly dependent on foreign aid that dried up with the overthr

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