The world still has little idea who Afghanistan’s new leaders are and how they will rule the country. But if the Taliban movement has a face, today it is Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar.
owes his freedom to the U.S.
In 2001, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a co-founder of the Taliban, tried to arrange the group’s surrender to the new U.S.-backed Afghan government. It was rejected. He spent most of the past decade under arrest in Pakistan. He returns to power 20 years later after the U.S. lobbied for his release when the Trump administration
. At the helm of the group’s political office in Doha, its de facto embassy, Mullah Baradar led talks with the U.S. that culminated in a deal to end America’s engagement in the 20-year war.and how they will rule the country. If the movement has a face, today it is Mullah Baradar. He is the highest-ranking leader of the movement to appear in public since it took back control of Afghanistan.
In his first appearance on Sunday, the somber, spectacled political leader spoke in low tones and urged for calm, promised services to the nation and called on fighters to be respectful.
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