{"id":19786,"date":"2018-10-25T11:25:58","date_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:25:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19786"},"modified":"2018-10-25T11:25:58","modified_gmt":"2018-10-25T11:25:58","slug":"afghan-taliban-founder-mullah-baradar-released-by-pakistan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=19786","title":{"rendered":"Afghan Taliban founder Mullah Baradar &#8216;released&#8217; by Pakistan"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"93.6844850065\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Pakistan has released the Afghan Taliban leader from prison, a spokesman for the Taliban said on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, also known as Mullah Baradar, is a cofounder of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. He was arrested by Pakistani authorities in the southern port city of Karachi in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/pakistan.html\">Pakistan<\/a> has released Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, and he joined his family on Tuesday, Zabihullah Mujahid, a spokesman for the Afghan Taliban, told Anadolu Agency.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">On Tuesday, local English daily The News reported that Pakistani authorities released Baradar on the solicitation of the government of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/qatar.html\">Qatar<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>Qatar&#8217;s Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed Bin Abdulrahman Al Thani visited Islamabad last Friday and held meetings with Pakistani Prime Minister Imran Khan and Foreign Minister Shah Mehmood Qureshi.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">Two unnamed Pakistani intelligence officials also confirmed that Mullah Baradar was freed &#8220;after high-level negotation,&#8221; AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>The development came after Taliban confirmed that they had held talks with US Representative for Afghanistan Reconciliation Zalmay Khalilzad in Doha, the capital of Qatar.<\/p>\n<p>Taliban set up a political office in Doha in 2013 <a class=\"InternalLink\" href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/news\/2017\/08\/afghan-taliban-qatar-plays-major-role-peace-talks-170801082357391.html\">at the request of the US<\/a>\u00a0to facilitate peace talks.<\/p>\n<p>Baradar is one of four men, including Mullah Omar who founded the Taliban movement in 1994. He served in several key positions when the Taliban ruled Afghanistan from 1996-2001.<\/p>\n<p>He fled to Pakistan after the US-led invasion toppled the Taliban government and was later arrested during an operation near Karachi city.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pakistan has released the Afghan Taliban leader from prison, a spokesman for the Taliban said on Thursday. Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, also known as Mullah Baradar, is a cofounder of the Taliban movement in Afghanistan. He was arrested by Pakistani authorities in the southern port city of Karachi in 2010. Pakistan has released Mullah Abdul&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":19787,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19786"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19786\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/19787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}