Azizullah, who goes by a single name, the deputy provincial intelligence chief, was killed when he was on his way home in the Loy Wala area of Kandahar city on Monday evening, said Abdul Qayoum Katawazi, the provincial chief of intelligence.
He said the attackers, on a motorbike, shot him dead and then escaped the area.
Taliban militants took responsibility for the attack in a statement posted at their website.
Meanwhile, NATO forces said they had killed a Taliban commander, Mullah Ziauddin, in an airstrike in Lashkargah, the capital city of the southern province of Helmand on October 29, the NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) said in a statement.
“Ziauddin is reported to have been linked with other senior Taliban members and to have controlled forces responsible for attacks on ISAF and Afghan Security Forces,” it said.
“He was also believed to be associated with the group responsible for the kidnapping of 160 Afghan engineers and labourers in Helmand province in September,” it added.
The workers, who were mistaken for army soldiers, were kidnapped in the region, but were released by the militants after several days in captivity.
More than 4,000 people - mostly insurgents - have been killed in Afghanistan political conflicts so far this year.
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