Source: Daily Times:
KABUL: A major meeting of Afghan elders discussing the country’s long-term relationship with the United States has been hit by a strange superstition surrounding the number 39, officials confirmed on Thursday. Some 2,000 elders at the Loya Jirga, now into a second day, have divided themselves up into 40 committees to debate the presence of US troops in Afghanistan after 2014, when NATO combat forces are meant to leave. But the members of committee 39 refuse to acknowledge the number because of an urban myth which associates it with pimps.
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