Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was not among the Taliban men who strode, unopposed, into the presidential palace in Kabul on August 15th. But he is credited with getting them there
capital, on August 15th. But he is credited with getting them there. Having just returned to the country for the first time in over a decade, he is expected to be anointed as the leader of the hastily resurrected Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. Who is he?A daily email with the best of our journalismBorn into an influential Pushtun tribe in southern Afghanistan in 1968, in his youth Mullah Baradar fought withguerrillas against Soviet troops, and the Afghan government they left behind.
After the war he helped Mullah Muhammad Omar, his former commander , found the Taliban , a posse of hard-line seminarians united to sweep away heathen local warlords, who then swiftly conquered much of the country in 1996.. Under his rule Mullah Baradar rose to the rank of deputy defence minister. After the American invasion in 2001 Mullah Baradar drove his commander on the back of a motorcycle to hide in the hills.
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