The remotely controlled bomb was detonated in Kunduz city and targeted a former mujahedeen commander who was also a member of the high peace council, Sayed Sarwar Husseini, Kunduz provincial police spokesman told AFP.
"This morning a remotely controlled bomb placed on a bicycle detonated in Sar Chawk area of Kunduz city, killing two including Shir Mohammad Arab a former jihadi commander and wounding 16 others," he said.
The wounded civilians were taken to a local hospital and were in a stable condition, he said.
Nobody has claimed responsibility for the attack.
The peace council was set up by Afghan President Hamid Karzai to engage with the Taliban. Its head, Burhanuddin Rabbani was assassinated by a turban bomber at his Kabul home in September.
Arab had had some success in his talks with local Taliban leaders, the provincial police spokesman said.
In November, a member of the high peace council in neighbouring Baghlan province survived a suicide attack on his house.
The incident Saturday comes a day after a Taliban suicide bomber struck a mosque in eastern Afghanistan, assassinating a district police chief and killing at least five other people.
On Tuesday coordinated attacks on Shiite Muslims in the capital Kabul and the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif killed at least 59 people in an unprecedented assault on the holy day of Ashura.
Meanwhile, three people were killed in the province of Kandahar Saturday, when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb.
"Three civilians were killed and one wounded when their pick up truck was hit by a roadside bomb in Khakrez district of Kandahar this morning," Kandahar police chief General Abdul Raziq said.
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