Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar
| Abdul Ghani Baradar | |
|---|---|
| Nickname(s) | Mullah Baradar |
| Born | 1968 (age 48–49) Weetmak, Deh Rahwod District, Oruzgan Province, Afghanistan |
| Allegiance |
 Taliban
|
| Rank | Commander |
| Battles/wars |
Soviet war in Afghanistan |
Soviet war in Afghanistan
Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001)
War on Terrorism:
Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar (Persian: عبدالغنی برادر; born c. 1968), also called Mullah Baradar Akhund or Mullah Brother, is a co-founder of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. He was the deputy of Mullah Mohammed Omar. Baradar was captured in Pakistan by a team of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) in February 2010 and was released on 21 September 2013.
Baradar was born in 1968 in the Weetmak village of Deh Rahwod District in Oruzgan Province of Afghanistan. He is a Durrani Pashtun of the Popalzai tribe. He fought during the 1980s Soviet war in Afghanistan in Kandahar (mainly in the Panjwayi area) and served in the Afghan mujahideen against the Soviet-backed Afghan government. He later operated a madrassa in Maiwand, Kandahar Province alongside his former commander, Mohammad Omar (the two may be brothers-in-law via marriage to two sisters). In 1994 he helped Omar found the Taliban in southern Afghanistan.
During Taliban rule (1996–2001), Baradar held a variety of posts. He was reportedly governor of Herat and Nimruz provinces, and/or the Corps Commander for western Afghanistan. An unclassified U.S. State Department document lists him as the former Deputy Chief of Army Staff and Commander of Central Army Corps, Kabul while Interpol states that he was the Taliban's Deputy Minister of Defense.
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