In Kabul is the co-founder and second in their hierarchy Taliban, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, in order to start talks with other members of the Islamist movement and politicians to form a new government.
“He will be in Kabul to meet with jihadist representatives and politicians to form an inclusive government,” a Taliban official told AFP.
Mullah Baradar returned on Tuesday, two days after the Taliban returned to power in Afghanistan, from Qatar, where he was head of the movement’s political bureau.
He arrived in Kandahar, in the south Afghanistan. The city was the center of Taliban rule between 1996 and 2001. The movement was born in the province of the same name in the early 1990s.
Abdul Ghani Baradar, born in Uruzgan province in southern Afghanistan and raised in Kandahar, is the co-founder of the Taliban along with Mullah Omar, who died in 2013 but has been hiding his death for two years.
Like a number of Afghans, his life was marked by the Soviet invasion in 1979 and he became a mujahideen, believed to be a comrade-in-arms of Mullah Omar.
In 2001, after the US-led invasion and the fall of the Taliban, he joined a small group of insurgents who intended to reach an agreement recognizing the Kabul government. However, this initiative proved unsuccessful.
When he was arrested in 2010 in Karachi, Pakistan, he was the Taliban’s military chief. In 2018 he was released, after pressure especially from Washington.
As a respected figure among supporters of various Taliban factions, Baradar was later appointed head of their political office in Qatar.
From there, he led negotiations with the Americans that led to the withdrawal of foreign forces from Afghanistan and subsequent fruitless peace talks with the Afghan government.
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