On August 13th he removed a warlord, Gul Agha Sherzai, from his post as governor of Kandahar.
Ququl Agha, a 60-year-old Panjway farmer, said a rare day passes without explosions or ambushes in his village.
Iran said the Agha-Soltan might have been shot by "mistake, " the state-run Islamic Republic News Agency reported Wednesday.
Mr. Agha said the group wants the establishment of an Islamic-minded regime, but doesn't want to lead the government.
Only the presence of General Dil Agha, acting in the film as a Northern Alliance commander, defused the situation.
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 was killed by a suicide-bomber in January, but his influence may help explain the relatively restrained reaction in Panjwai itself to the atrocity.
Also Monday, militants attacked a police vehicle just outside Kandahar city, killing two officers and wounding eight others, said provincial police chief Syed Agha Saqib.
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.
While Mr. Agha isn't an official spokesman for the insurgents, U.S. and Taliban officials concur that these measures have been the focus of U.S. contacts with the Taliban.
"During the time of the Russians, there was a market named after Brezhnev, " said Haji Khan Agha, a retired army officer who owns a shop at Bush Market.
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Ghadiri added that the United States may have been behind the killing of Neda Agha-Soltan, the 26-year-old Iranian woman whose fatal videotaped shooting on Saturday made her a symbol of opposition.
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 protesters have exalted the image of a beautiful young woman, Neda Agha Soltan, who was photographed in a demonstration in Tehran as she lay dying after being shot by an unknown assailant.
Thursday would mark the 40th day after the fatal shooting of 26-year-old Neda Agha-Soltan, whose death has come to symbolize Iranian resistance to the government's official election results since it was captured on amateur video.
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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.
The Taliban see the permission to open a Taliban office in Qatar and the exchange of the five detainees for a Westerner held captive by the insurgents as the first two steps required to establish trust between the parties, Mr. Agha said.
For their part, pro-Palestinian lobbyists Robert Malley and Hussein Agha are now arguing that the two-state solution has failed and that the time has come for a one-state solution in which Israel ceases to exist as a Jewish state by accepting the Palestinians as full citizens in one binational state.
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