Who is Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar?

Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar will lead a new Afghan government set to be announced soon.

The new government’s most immediate priority would be to avert the collapse of an economy grappling with drought and the ravages of a 20-year conflict that killed around 240,000 Afghans before US forces completed a tumultuous pullout on August 30. Let’s find out more about the man who’ll be at helm of Taliban government.

Born in Uruzgan province in 1968, he fought in the Afghan Mujahideen against the Soviets in the 1980s. In 1989, after the Russians withdrew, civil war broke out between warring parties in Afghanistan.

It was then that Baradar set up a madrassa in Kandahar with Omar, his former commander and brother-in-law. The duo founded the Taliban.

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