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Wide of Afghan police with Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) driving by 2. Mid of APC driving by 3. Afghan police removing barrier for vehicles to pass 4. Close-up of gun muzzle with Afghan police walking in background 5. Mid of...\u003c/span\u003e\n\u003cspan class='full-description hide'\u003e1. Wide of Afghan police with Armoured Personnel Carriers (APCs) driving by \u003cbr/\u003e2. Mid of APC driving by \u003cbr/\u003e3. Afghan police removing barrier for vehicles to pass \u003cbr/\u003e4. Close-up of gun muzzle with Afghan police walking in background \u003cbr/\u003e5. Mid of traffic policeman blowing whistle and flagging cars \u003cbr/\u003e6. Close-up of traffic policeman \u003cbr/\u003e7. Wide of Afghan police checking passenger vehicle \u003cbr/\u003e8. Afghan police opening vehicle trunk and checking contents\u003cbr/\u003e9. SOUNDBITE (Dari) Haji Zabiullah, Kabul resident: \u003cbr/\u003e\"Searching and security is tight today because of the peace jirga. We ask Allah that this jirga will end peacefully and bring peace in all Afghanistan.\"\u003cbr/\u003e10. Wide of tent where peace jirga will be held \u003cbr/\u003e11. Wide of people walking in jirga venue \u003cbr/\u003e12. Wide of jirga venue \u003cbr/\u003e13. Wide of people walking in jirga venue \u003cbr/\u003e14. Wide of news conference by Afghan presidential spokesperson, Waheed Omer\u003cbr/\u003e15. Cutaway of journalists \u003cbr/\u003e16. SOUNDBITE (English) Waheed Omer, Afghan presidential spokesperson:\u003cbr/\u003e\"All these people come together in a very large group to discuss peace in Afghanistan. I don't think there is a logic in saying that this is going to be useless. Of course this jirga was not supposed to be a jirga between Afghan government and its opposition, so the Afghan government is not participating nor is the opposition participating. This is a jirga where the Afghan people are participating to advise the government as to how the peace process should be followed.\"\u003cbr/\u003e17. Wide of street scene and vendors\u003cbr/\u003e18. Close of women in burkhas\u003cbr/\u003e19. Various street scenes\u003cbr/\u003e20. Former Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah before start of news conference\u003cbr/\u003e21. Cutaway of news conference attendees\u003cbr/\u003e22. SOUNDBITE (English) Abdullah Abdullah, former Afghan presidential candidate: \u003cbr/\u003e\"The problem number one in the eyes of the people is the government and its failure to deal with the issues and challenges including corruption. In this sort of environment to think that by inviting people through the government we can take a step forward towards achieving peace, that sounds unrealistic.\"\u003cbr/\u003e23. Wide of police checkpoint\u003cbr/\u003e24. Police checking car and car driving off\u003cbr/\u003eAfghan insurgent groups on Tuesday dismissed this week's national conference on how to lure fighters off the battlefield, saying the three-day meeting would merely draw government loyalists to rubber-stamp a programme that cannot succeed.\u003cbr/\u003eAbout 1,600 Afghans will convene on Wednesday in Kabul to discuss how to reconcile with the fighters even as the US rushes in more troops to ramp up the war. \u003cbr/\u003eSecurity has been beefed up across the capital, with thousands of security personnel deployed in key areas near the venue for the talks.\u003cbr/\u003ePresident Hamid Karzai will use the conference to roll out his programme to offer economic incentives to Taliban and other insurgent fighters willing to abandon the nearly nine-year war.\u003cbr/\u003eLawmakers, provincial council members, tribal and religious leaders and representatives of civil society will gather in a giant tent at Kabul Polytechnic University for the talks.\u003cbr/\u003eNotably absent from the \"peace jirga\" - jirga means \"large assembly\" in Pashto - will be official representatives of the Taliban, although some of the delegates may be insurgent sympathisers.\u003cbr/\u003eIn a statement e-mailed to news organisations on the eve of the jirga, the Taliban said the conference did not represent the Afghan people and was aimed at \"securing the interest of foreigners.\"\u003cbr/\u003eAnother major insurgent group, Hizb-i-Islami, called the conference \"a useless exercise\" because \"only handpicked people\" were invited.\u003cbr/\u003eFaced with an onslaught of criticism, the Afghan government has defended the talks saying that it is an important event to secure the opinion of the people.\u003cbr/\u003e\"I don't think there is a logic in saying that this is going to be useless,\" said Afghan presidential spokesperson, Waheed Omer.\u003cbr/\u003e\"This is a jirga where the Afghan people are participating to advise the government as to how the peace process should be followed,\" Omer said.\u003cbr/\u003eSceptics have also criticised the talks for not being inclusive enough.\u003cbr/\u003eOnly 20 percent of the delegates will be women, who suffered under Taliban rule and would have much to lose in a settlement that gives the insurgents a prominent political role in Afghan society.\u003cbr/\u003e\"The problem number one in the eyes of the people is the government and its failure to deal with the issues and challenges including corruption,\" said former presidential candidate, Dr. Abdullah Abdullah.\u003cbr/\u003e\"In this sort of environment to think that by inviting people through the government we can take a step forward towards achieving peace, that sounds unrealistic.\"\u003cbr/\u003eDespite the cool reception, Karzai is hoping the jirga will bolster him politically by endorsing his strategy of offering incentives to individual Taliban fighters and reaching out to the insurgent leadership, despite scepticism 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