Panjwai District Governor Haji Faizluddin Agha (left), greets district elders before a local shura, March 6, in Panjwai District, Kandahar province, Afghanistan. "It is risky for any government official to visit the villages like this," he explained to the elders. "If the Taliban want to bomb this shura, if they want to send a suicide attacker here, all they will be doing is killing innocent people."