Mr. Ahmadi said there had been no change in Taliban policy toward polio vaccination teams.
The killing of General Mohammad Daud Daud, the police commander for northern Afghanistan, on Saturday by a suicide bomber who infiltrated security wearing a police uniform, highlights a recent change in Taliban tactics, says the BBC's Bilal Sarwary in Kabul.
"Mullah Brother can create change in the Taliban leadership, if he is used in mediation or peace-talking efforts to convince other Taliban to come over, but if he is put in jail as a prisoner, we don't think the peace process will be productive," said Hajji Baridad, a tribal elder from Kandahar.
The threats against the local population in villages like Tarakai show a change in the Taliban's tactics from previous years.
The bombing in Maimana's busy marketplace appeared to signal a change in the Taliban's strategy.
Few things could better symbolize the drastic social changes in Afghanistan since the Taliban era, when soccer was banned, even for small children.
So we can maybe expect the Taliban to return to the table sooner rather than later with possibly some changes in the format of the Taliban office that would be acceptable to all players.
The contacts reflect war weariness among the insurgents, the official said, but also the political changes in Pakistan, where fighting between the government and Pakistani Taliban last year left the Afghan Taliban unsure of its long-term sanctuary in Pakistan.
In Taliban times, she went hungry.
Educated women in the cities who were repressed by the old Taliban government have benefited from the changes in Afghanistan, and many are now working and studying.
