Abdul Ghani Baradar

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Following the 11 September 2001 attacks, the United States invaded Afghanistan and deposed the Taliban with the help of Afghan forces. Baradar fought against the U.S.-supported Northern Alliance and, according to Newsweek , "hopped on a motorcycle and drove his old friend [Omar] to safety in the mountains" in November 2001 as Taliban defenses were crumbling. [20] One story holds that a U.S.-linked Afghan force seized Baradar and other Taliban figures sometime that month, but Pakistani intelligence secured their release. [28] Another story reported by Bette Dam contends that Baradar rescued Hamid Karzai, his fellow Popalzai tribesman, from grave danger when the latter had entered Afghanistan to build anti-Taliban support. [29]

The new Afghan government was organized in accordance with the December 2001 Bonn Agreement; Hamid Karzai served as interim leader and later President of Afghanistan. Baradar now found himself fighting international forces and the newly formed Afghan government. According to historian and counterinsurgency analyst Carter Malkasian, Baradar's decision to pick up arms again after 2001 might have been largely rooted in the failures of Karzai to include the Taliban in the 2002 loya jirga and to enforce an amnesty that would have allowed him and other Taliban members to live peacefully in a post-Taliban Afghanistan. [30] Many fellow Taliban commanders were killed over the years following the initial invasion, including Baradar's rival Dadullah, who was killed in Helmand Province in 2007. Baradar eventually rose to lead the Quetta Shura and became the de facto leader of the Taliban, directing the insurgency from Pakistan. [20] Western diplomats considered him to be among those in the Shura who were more open to contact with the Afghan government, and more resistant to influence from Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence. [31] Temperament-wise he has been described as acting as "an old-fashioned Pashtun tribal head" and a consensus builder. [20]

Despite his military activities, Baradar was reportedly behind several attempts to begin peace talks, specifically in 2004 and 2009, [20] and widely seen as a potentially key part of a negotiated peace deal. [32] [33]

Imprisonment in Pakistan, 2010–2018

Baradar was arrested by Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) in late January [34] or early February 2010 [35] in Karachi. [36] [37] [38] [39] Pakistan only confirmed the arrest a week later and Pakistani Interior Minister Rehman Malik denied reports that US agents had been involved in the arrest. [40] According to New York Times reporting soon after the arrest, American intelligence agencies had tipped off Pakistani counter-terror officers about a meeting of militants with a possible link to Baradar, but that it was only after several men had been arrested that they realised one was Baradar himself. [34] According to New York Times reporting months later, Pakistani officials were then claiming that they had been targeting Baradar himself, because he had been secretly discussing a peace deal with the Afghan government without the involvement of Pakistan, who had long supported the Taliban. They claimed that the ISI tracked Baradar's cell phone to an area of Karachi, called on the CIA to use a more sophisticated tracking device to find his precise location, and then the Pakistanis moved in to arrest him. The New York Times concluded that events and motives were still unclear. [41] The story was only lightly covered in the Pakistani press when it initially broke, except for the newspaper Dawn , which published detailed information. [42] Abdul Qayyum Zakir became the Taliban military leader after Baradar's arrest.

US representative Zalmay Khalilzad (left) and Baradar (right) sign the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar, on 29 February 2020 Secretary Pompeo Participates in a Signing Ceremony in Doha (49601220548).jpg
US representative Zalmay Khalilzad (left) and Baradar (right) sign the Agreement for Bringing Peace to Afghanistan in Doha, Qatar, on 29 February 2020

Although some analysts saw Baradar's arrest as a significant shift in Pakistan's position, [43] others claimed that Pakistan arrested Baradar to stop his negotiations with the Karzai government, so that Pakistan would get a seat at the table[ citation needed ] – because an agreement between the Taliban and the Karzai government could deprive Pakistan of influence in Afghanistan. [44] Another view contended that Pakistani General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani was using the series of Taliban arrests to help extend his own career beyond his slated November 2010 retirement date, the theory being that this would raise his standing among American policymakers and thus pressure the Pakistani government to retain him. [45] The Afghan government was reportedly holding secret talks with Baradar and his arrest was said to have infuriated President Hamid Karzai. [46]

Despite repeated claims that Pakistan would deliver Baradar to Afghanistan if formally asked to do so, [47] and that his extradition was underway, [48] he was expressly excluded from a group of nine Taliban prisoners that Pakistan released in November 2012. [49] [50] They eventually released him in mid-October 2018. [31] [51] [52] [53] Washington special envoy Zalmay Khalilzad said that he had asked Pakistan to release him, as Khalilzad believed Baradar could help in the Afghan peace process. [54]

Post-release leadership

With a delegation meeting US representative Zalmay Khalilzad (2nd left) and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Abdul Ghani Baradar (4th left), Abdul Hakim Haqqani (5th left); Suhail Shaheen (far right). September 2020. Secretary Pompeo Meets With the Taliban Delegation (50333305012).jpg
With a delegation meeting US representative Zalmay Khalilzad (2nd left) and Secretary of State Mike Pompeo; Abdul Ghani Baradar (4th left), Abdul Hakim Haqqani (5th left); Suhail Shaheen (far right). September 2020.

Baradar was appointed a deputy to the supreme leader of the Taliban and the chief of the Taliban's political office in Doha, Qatar, in January 2019, about three months after Pakistan released him. [55] [56] He was the most senior of three deputies to the leader, the other two being Sirajuddin Haqqani and Mullah Yaqoob. [1] [57] Although he served under supreme leader Hibatullah Akhundzada, according to The Economist , and The Diplomat , Baradar was regarded as the Taliban's de facto leader. [17] [58] US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo called him "a very sophisticated player" in a meeting with the then President of Afghanistan, Ashraf Ghani. [59]

In February 2020, Baradar signed the Doha Agreement on the withdrawal of US forces from Afghanistan on behalf of the Taliban. [60]

On 17 August 2021, Baradar returned to Afghanistan for the first time since the fall of the first Taliban government in 2001. [61] It was rumoured that he would become the president of Afghanistan following the overthrow of the government of Ashraf Ghani by the Taliban in August 2021. [62] [63] On 23 August 2021, CIA Director William J. Burns held a secret meeting with Baradar in Kabul to discuss the 31 August deadline for a U.S. military withdrawal from Afghanistan. [64] [65]

On 14 September 2021, it was reported that Baradar had not been seen in public for several days, and that there were rumours he had been injured or killed in infighting over power in the new Afghan government. [66] The following day a video interview with Baradar was released, in which he denied the rumours. [67] During the 2nd 2024 United States presidential debates, former U.S. president Donald Trump mentioned Baradar's role in negotiations which led to the end of the War. [68]

Notes

  1. ↑ Pashto/Dari: عبدالغني برادر, Pashto pronunciation: [ˈabdʊlɣaˈnibarɑˈdar] , Dari pronunciation: [ˈabdʊlɣaˈniːbeɾɒːˈdæɾ]

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    Mullah
    Abdul Ghani Baradar
    عبدالغنی برادر
    Abdul Ghani Baradar.jpg
    Baradar in 2020
    First Deputy Prime Minister for Economic Affairs of Afghanistan [1] [2]
    Acting
    Assumed office
    7 September 2021
    Political offices
    Preceded by First Deputy Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
    2002–2010
    with Obaidullah Akhund (second deputy, 2002–2007)
    Akhtar Mansour (second deputy, 2007–2010)
    Served under: Mullah Omar     		Succeeded by
    Preceded by Head of the Political Office of the
    Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
    2019–2021    		Succeeded by
    New seat Third Deputy Leader of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan
    2019–present
    with Sirajuddin Haqqani (first deputy, 2016–present)
    Mullah Yaqoob (second deputy, 2016–present)
    Served under: Hibatullah Akhundzada     		Incumbent
    Third deputy head of state of Afghanistan
    2021–present
    Vacant
    Title last held by
    Hasan Akhund (2001)    		 Acting First Deputy Prime Minister of Afghanistan
    for Economic Affairs
    2021–present
    with Abdul Salam Hanafi (acting, second)
    Abdul Kabir (acting, third)
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