Asim Posted September 10, 2013 Posted September 10, 2013 Fate of Mullah Baradar, reputed ex-member of Quetta Shura, seen as critical to efforts to revive stalled peace process. Pakistan plans to free Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, former Afghan Taliban second-in-command, this month to help advance peace efforts in neighbouring Afghanistan, according to Pakistan's foreign policy chief. The US and Afghanistan have long pressed Pakistan to free Baradar and other senior Taliban figures who could be used to attract moderate Taliban leaders to the negotiating table and transform the insurgency into a political movement. "In principle, we have agreed to release him. The timing is being discussed. It should be very soon ... I think within this month," Sartaj Aziz, Pakistani Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's adviser on foreign affairs, told Reuters news agency. Aizaz Ahmad Chaudhry, Pakistani foreign ministry spokesman, confirmed to AFP news agency that the decision had been taken to release Baradar "at an appropriate time". Afghanistan welcomed the move. "The issue of Mullah Baradar is very important to us because his release will help the Afghan peace process," Aimal Faizi, spokesman for Afghan President Hamid Karzai, said. Taliban reaction Karzai has spent years calling for Baradar's release because he believes the Taliban commander is more open to dialogue than many of his comrades. Zabihullah Mujahid, a Taliban spokesman, said: "We hope that his imprisonment is over". Baradar's fate is at the heart of Afghanistan's efforts to revive the stalled peace process as most NATO combat troops prepare to pull out of Afghanistan by the end of 2014 and anxiety grows over the country's security. He was arrested in January 2010 in Pakistan's southern port city of Karachi reportedly in a secret raid by CIA and Pakistani agents, an operation that was described as a huge blow to the group. Although little is known about Baradar's more recent activity, Interpol has said that Baradar had been a member of the Taliban's so-called Quetta Shura leadership since May 2007. At the time of his arrest, Baradar was reported to have been second or third-in-command of the Quetta Shura. Bin Laden associate The New York Times newspaper, which broke the story of Baradar's arrest, said he was a close associate of Osama bin Laden, al-Qaeda's late leader, before the September 11, 2001, attacks. After the Taliban government was toppled by the US-led invasion in 2001, hundreds of Taliban fighters were believed to have fled over the border to Pakistan. Until his arrest, Baradar was a close friend of the group's reclusive leader, Mullah Mohammad Omar who gave him the name "Baradar" or "brother". He was also the main day-to-day commander responsible for leading the Taliban campaign against the US and NATO troops, plotting suicide bombings and other attacks. Baradar's arrest saw Pakistan accused of sabotaging initiatives to bring peace in Afghanistan. In early 2010, the Afghan government and the former UN envoy to Afghanistan said his detention had adversely affected efforts to talk to the fighters. Possible go-between Many Afghans hope Baradar could act as a go-between with Taliban leaders including Omar but some have doubts over how much clout he still has in the Taliban circles, and indeed how keen he would be to promote peace. Aziz, the Pakistani PM's adviser, said that Baradar would not be handed over to Afghanistan directly as some in Kabul had hoped, and would instead be released straight into Pakistan. Aziz's remarks followed last month's trip by Karzai to Pakistan, where he sought the handover of some Afghan fighters as part of the stalled peace process. Pakistan freed a group of Taliban members on Saturday but once again risked angering the Karzai government by not handing them over directly. Aziz said it was important to make sure the released Taliban prisoners had a chance to establish contact with their leadership on the ground to persuade them to be part of peace talks - an idea he said Karzai had agreed to. http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia/2013/09/2013910142712612564.html
coffee_rules Posted September 12, 2013 Posted September 12, 2013 Perhaps this answers your question about American efforts to involve Pakistan in mediating with Taliban for peace in Afghanistan.
gs Posted September 12, 2013 Posted September 12, 2013 perhaps he was part of the "good" Taliban :giggle:
Macj Posted September 21, 2013 Posted September 21, 2013 Great now he'll whip some poor girl and go right back to prison, not after a 6 month manhunt.
gs Posted September 22, 2013 Posted September 22, 2013 Great now he'll whip some poor girl and go right back to prison' date=' not after a 6 month manhunt.[/quote'] maashallanh we is pwning the infidels now
Asim Posted September 22, 2013 Author Posted September 22, 2013 Finally govt started to adopt Imran Khan lines which he had been asking since 10 years...
Asim Posted September 22, 2013 Author Posted September 22, 2013 & the elements (including "externals") don't want to see peace & stability in Pakistan, will do their best (may be a series of new attacks etc) in coming days to sabotage these talks and efforts towards peace restoration...
ravishingravi Posted September 22, 2013 Posted September 22, 2013 Finally govt started to adopt Imran Khan lines which he had been asking since 10 years... Yay ! First sign of peace. 60 people killed in Church bombing today in Peshawar. Imran will naturally not comment on this.
Asim Posted September 22, 2013 Author Posted September 22, 2013 Yay ! First sign of peace. 60 people killed in Church bombing today in Peshawar. Imran will naturally not comment on this. & the elements (including "externals") don't want to see peace & stability in Pakistan' date=' will do their best (may be a series of new attacks etc) in coming days to sabotage these talks and efforts towards peace restoration...[/quote']
ravishingravi Posted September 22, 2013 Posted September 22, 2013 So, did I get this right ? You are talking to a body which has probably killed more than 1000 of your citizens in last year or two and continues to do so as you are in so called peace talks and people are supposed to applaud Imran Khan for asking the govt. to do so.
Asim Posted September 22, 2013 Author Posted September 22, 2013 ^ I know our neighbors would love keep watching our Army remain forever involved with those elements on the name of war against terror and those elements keep growing and expanding, external elements keep strengthening them and they keep targeting our mosques, churches, shrines, Army installments, keep killing civilians, kids, women... and the loop shall continue...
ravishingravi Posted September 22, 2013 Posted September 22, 2013 ^ I know our neighbors would love keep watching our Army remain forever involved with those elements on the name of war against terror and those elements keep growing and expanding' date=' external elements keep strengthening them and they keep targeting our mosques, churches, shrines, Army installments, keep killing civilians, kids, women... and the loop shall continue...[/quote'] So by that logic should I assume that Pakistanis want peace talks at cost of lives of innocent citizens. Good for you, I guess. You must be deluded to believe that you can talk with them. As accepted by Imran, these are your strategic assets created by you against neighbors that have gone bad. The problem is your army is not involved enough in this war on terror since Taliban has well and truly infiltrated them. Afterall they created the Taliban.
gs Posted September 22, 2013 Posted September 22, 2013 So by that logic should I assume that Pakistanis want peace talks at cost of lives of innocent citizens. Good for you, I guess. You must be deluded to believe that you can talk with them. As accepted by Imran, these are your strategic assets created by you against neighbors that have gone bad. The problem is your army is not involved enough in this war on terror since Taliban has well and truly infiltrated them. Afterall they created the Taliban. It maybe exceedingly difficult to separate the taleban from the ISI/Pak army/strategic assets -- after all they are all on the Pak payroll and misguided by the same religious fundamentalist ideology.
Asim Posted September 22, 2013 Author Posted September 22, 2013 So by that logic should I assume that Pakistanis want peace talks at cost of lives of innocent citizens. Good for you, I guess. You must be deluded to believe that you can talk with them. As accepted by Imran, these are your strategic assets created by you against neighbors that have gone bad. The problem is your army is not involved enough in this war on terror since Taliban has well and truly infiltrated them. Afterall they created the Taliban. yes you can ASSUME whatever you want to...
Mariyam Posted September 22, 2013 Posted September 22, 2013 Released today... Maikay se sasuraal tak ka safar tai karna is 'released'?
CSK Fan Posted September 22, 2013 Posted September 22, 2013 ^ I know our neighbors would love keep watching our Army remain forever involved with those elements on the name of war against terror and those elements keep growing and expanding' date=' external elements keep strengthening them and they keep targeting our mosques, churches, shrines, Army installments, keep killing civilians, kids, women... and the loop shall continue...[/quote'] So how are peace talks any better? Can you show me one instance where it has worked? PTI offered peace talks yet today they blew up a church Secondly, is your nation and army so weak that you are so sure that you cannot wipe them off and will be forever involved? Dont you chest thump about a mighty army and nukes?
CSK Fan Posted September 22, 2013 Posted September 22, 2013 & the elements (including "externals") don't want to see peace & stability in Pakistan' date=' will do their best (may be a series of new attacks etc) in coming days to sabotage these talks and efforts towards peace restoration...[/quote'] As long you stay in bed with terrorsits, your country will never have peace. You cannot overlook the blood of innocents, whether in your country or in Afghanistan or India. The blood of innocents always have a prize. Has your zameer died to such an extent, has your moral values died so much that you find it completely ok to make peace with murderers of innocents in the name of safety? You come on the street and protest when a video of the Prophet in on youtube yet you show no religious or moral values when you recommend peace with terrorists. You do understand that this is only going to give your country and your religion more of a bad name
Asim Posted September 22, 2013 Author Posted September 22, 2013 ^ & ur reaction when you hear news about US at the end trying to make PEACE-TALKS with Taliban?
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