Shah Wali Khan, Chairman of the Peace Council (HPC) in the province of Helmand, the southern region, was killed along with two police bodyguards when the explosion hit the vehicle, reports AFP.
HPC is a government agency formed in 2010 to open negotiations with the Taliban, but the guerrilla group refused to negotiate with the envoys of President Hamid Karzai'S U.S.-backed.
Helmand provincial government said in a statement, Khan was traveling in the Gereshk area as part of the handover of security responsibility from the NATO-led troops to Afghanistan security forces.
The Taliban "to take advantage of opportunities to benefit our official envoys had done it" and detonated a bomb assembled under the vehicle, the statement said.
In the past the Taliban attacked the leaders of the HPC. In 2011, a suicide bomb attack killed the Council Chairman, Burhanuddin Rabbani.
Upcoming peace talks faced many obstacles, including chaos about who will represent the Taliban and Karzai's demands that his envoy should be a core part of the negotiations.
Search for a political solution is the priority when violence flared up in the South and East and combat international troops prepare withdraw from Afghanistan.
Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and his Western nations have agreed that all foreign combat forces will return to their country by the end of 2014, but the West pledged to support continued after this time in the form of funds and training for Afghanistan's security forces.
NATO aims to train soldiers and police by the end of Afghanistan by the end of 2014 to ensure stability in the country, but challenges still ahead of us in the process of transition.
Desertion, poor assignments and low morale among major problems that complicate the commanders of NATO and Afghanistan.
In October 2011, the Taliban promised to fight until all foreign forces leave Afghanistan.
The Taliban, who ruled Afghanistan from 1996, waged a rebellion since ousted from power in the country by U.S.-led invasion in 2001 because of the Al Qaida leader refused to hand over Osama bin Laden, who is accused of responsibility for the attack in the United States which killed around 3,000 people on September 11, 2001.
About 130,000 members of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) led by NATO that come from dozens of countries sent to Afghanistan to help the Kabul Government battle the insurgency of the Taliban and its allies.
Taliban guerrillas rely heavily on the use of roadside bombs and suicide attacks against Afghanistan's Government and foreign troops stationed in the country.
Bomb assemblies known as IED (improvised explosives) resulted in 70-80 percent of the casualties to foreign troops in Afghanistan, according to the military. (M014)
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