Mullah Baradar in 2020 in Doha, Qatar, to sign the Doha Agreement
Abdul Ghani Baradar[a] (born 29 September 1963 or c. 1968; known by the honorific mullah) is an Afghan politician and religious leader who is the acting first deputy prime minister, alongside Abdul Salam Hanafi, of the Taliban led government of Afghanistan. A co-founder of the Taliban along with Mullah Omar, he was Omar's top deputy from 2002 to 2010, and since 2019 he has been the Taliban's fourth-in-command, as the third of LeaderHibatullah Akhundzada's three deputies.
He held senior positions in the Taliban during their first rule from 1996 to 2001. After the Taliban government fell to the US-led invasion in 2001, he rose to lead the organization's Quetta Shura in Pakistan, becoming the de facto leader of the Taliban. He was imprisoned by Pakistan in 2010, possibly because he had been discussing a peace deal with the Afghan government secretly, without the involvement of Pakistan. He was released in 2018 at the request of the United States and was subsequently appointed a deputy leader of the Taliban and head of their political office in Qatar. Following the Taliban victory in August 2021, he returned to Afghanistan and received his current government post.
He is a Zirak[17]DurraniPashtun of the Sadozai tribe, a sub-tribe of the Popalzai.[18] According to Dutch journalist Bette Dam, he and Muhammed Omar became friends when they were teenagers.[19] According to Newsweek, Omar and Baradar may be brothers-in-law via marriage to two sisters.[20]Muhammed Omar the first leader of the Taliban, nicknamed him 'Baradar', which means 'brother',[19] or Mullah Brother.[21]
Career
Soviet war
He fought during the 1980s in the Soviet–Afghan War in Kandahar (mainly in the Panjwayi area), serving as Omar's deputy in a group of Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet-backed Afghan government.[19][22] Omar gave him the nom de guerre 'Baradar', which means 'brother',[19] because of their close friendship.[21] He later operated a madrassa in Maiwand, Kandahar Province, alongside Omar.[23][17]
Early Taliban career
In 1994, he was one of four men, including Omar, who founded the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.[24] During Taliban rule (1996–2001), Baradar held a variety of posts. He was reportedly governor of Herat and Nimruz provinces,[25][26] and/or the Corps Commander for western Afghanistan.[20] An unclassified U.S. State Department document lists him as the former Deputy Chief of Army Staff and Commander of Central Army Corps, Kabul,[27] while the United Nations Security Council Consolidated List states that he was the Deputy Minister of Defense.[14]
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.
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]
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]
^Zengerle, Patricia (17 February 2010). "White House hails capture of Taliban leader". Reuters. Archived from the original on 16 November 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2017. 'a big success for our mutual efforts in the region,' spokesman Robert Gibbs said, breaking the White House's silence on the capture of Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
^Eric Rosenbach (21 February 2010). "Pakistan Smart to Hit Taliban". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2020. The capture of Baradar and the Afghan Taliban governors is only the most recent and highly visible signal of the possible shift.
^"Pakistan's Complicated Motives". Editorial. The Boston Globe. 22 February 2010. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 21 February 2020. An agreement between the Taliban and the Karzai government could deprive Pakistan of influence in next-door Afghanistan.
^Roggio, Bill (24 January 2019). "Mullah Beradar appointed head of Taliban's 'political office' in Qatar". Long War Journal. Archived from the original on 27 January 2019. Retrieved 29 January 2019. 'In accordance with the decree issued by the Leader of Islamic Emirate, the esteemed Mullah Abdul Ghani Beradar has been appointed as the deputy of the Leader in Political Affairs and the chief of the Political Office of the Islamic Emirate,' the Taliban statement said.
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