KABUL, March 31 (Xinhuanet) -- An Afghan provincial governor has promised to return properties to Taliban who volunteered to work with the government in the peace process, in an effort to bring back the moderate Taliban into the Afghan social life, Afghan Hindukosh News Agency (HNA) reported Thursday.

    Gul Agha Shirzai, governor of the southern Kandahar province, known as the heartland of former Taliban regime, gave his words tothose Taliban who choose to lay down their weapons and join the on-going rebuilding agenda, even back on the political arena through the coming legislature body to be elected on Sept. 18 this year.

    Mullah Amanullah, a senior former Taliban commander, was among those who have regained their properties after they shifted from resistance to involvement in line with government's reconciliationpolicy.

    President Hamid Karzai offered amnesty last year for non-criminal Taliban, trying to persuade Taliban militia to return home and resume normal life. Meanwhile, Karzai has also repeatedlytold the press he welcome anyone who shares his idea of rebuildingthe war-shattered country to join the process, indicating no exception for former Tabiban.

    The governor made the comment amid the ongoing reconciliation efforts and peace talks between government and Taliban, a gesture aimed to boost the process prior to the Parliamentary poll. Some 150 Taliban were recognized as criminals, the rest can be accounted for, according to officials.

    The US-led coalition, another active player in the process, whohas deployed some 18,000 troops to hunt Taliban and al-Qaeda leaders, on different occasions encouraged moderate Taliban to join Afghanistan's reconstruction when the window was open.

    However, the hard-line Taliban leadership condemned the strategy as conspiracy to split and weaken the group. At the end of the worst winter in a decade, Taliban operatives again became active shortly after US military announced Taliban insurgency was sharply curtailed last year.

    More than 10, including four US soldiers, were killed in a series of attacks targeted on the US and Afghan military over lasttwo weeks. Enditem