This was during the US ‘surge’, when President Barack Obama was increasing US troops to over 100,000 in an effort to turn the tide of the war. The Pakistani state, presumably, its intelligence service, the ISI, detained him in February 2010. There is talk that he has been freed in order to help in ‘the peace process’ and, even after eight years in incarceration, AAN Co-Director Kate Clark says, he may have much to offer.ĭepending on how much news Mullah Baradar has had of the outside world in the last eight years, the many changes between 20 may or may not come as a surprise.

News of Baradar’s release has been reported before, but this time is looking certain. At the time of his arrest, he was the effective number two in the movement and the de facto operational chief of the insurgency. Baradar was a founding member of the Taleban and a noted battlefield commander. He was arrested in 2010 and held ever since, apparently incommunicado and without charge or trial. The Taleban have confirmed to various media that Pakistan has released the most senior member of their movement in detention, Mullah Abdul Ghani, better known as Mullah Baradar (brother).

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