On August 13th he removed a warlord, Gul Agha Sherzai, from his post as governor of Kandahar.
Mr. Agha said the group wants the establishment of an Islamic-minded regime, but doesn't want to lead the government.
This demand still stands, though Mr. Agha said the Taliban saw it, at this stage of the talks, as illegitimate.
Setting up a Qatar office and the prisoner exchange are the first two steps required to establish trust, Mr. Agha said.
After that, under Fazluddin Agha, a formidable local governor, security improved, and foreign money has been poured into opening schools and clinics.
Gul Agha Sherazi's men have been linked to the reported fall of Kandahar Airport, but Karzai has denied that they were involved in fighting.
Mr. Agha said his cousin, Tayeb Agha, the main Taliban negotiator, has held talks with the U.S. in Germany and in a Gulf emirate other than Qatar.
Agha Jan Motasim, a former finance minister and another leading Taliban member who advocated peace talks, was gunned down in Karachi but survived and sought asylum in Turkey with his family.
Agha Gul Dost, an official with Afghanistan's ministry of public health, said Afghan immunization programs faced extreme challenges, both from continuing violence and insecurity as well as from the country's forbidding terrain.
The president of the Shia Conference, Syed Dawood Agha, told the BBC that his community would not bury its dead till the army had given an assurance it would take administrative control of the city.
Mr. Agha, who spent four years behind bars for organizing the kidnapping of United Nations officials in 2004, provided in a Wall Street Journal interview a rare glimpse of the Taliban's goals in the negotiating process.
Forces loyal to the governor of Kandahar, Gul Agha Sherzai, were tipped off that a band of neo-Talibs had slipped across the border, perhaps hoping to embarrass the Afghan interior minister, who was visiting Spin Boldak that day.
The American Muslim Alliance is one of a few national political Muslim groups and the first to meet since the Sept. 11 attacks that "forced Muslims to come out into the public square, " said Agha Saeed, the group's national chairman.
The students also want British authorities to return a suspect allegedly wanted in the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, a 26-year-old woman who became an icon after she was killed during the post election riots in Iran this summer, Fars reported.
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