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...Johari Abdul Ghani, chair of a special task force formed in 2018 to resolve matters linked to the 1MDB scandal, said in a statement that it was “quite surprised at the conduct of Goldman Sachs as parties...
...The Return of the Taliban: Afghanistan after the Americans Left by Hassan Abbas (Yale) After a 20-year war, the Taliban are back in control of Afghanistan....
...Analysts and diplomats point to unresolved factionalism between the old guard of Kandahari leaders, such as deputy prime minister and Taliban co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar, and the Haqqani group, whose...
...When Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar arrived at Afghanistan’s Kandahar airport from Doha on a Qatari Air Force C-17 on Tuesday, he was welcomed by jubilant Islamist militants as a conquering hero...
...Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar deputy prime minister The most familiar international face of the Taliban and one of the movement’s four co-founders, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar held a senior military role in...
...Political chief Abdul Ghani Baradar, who led the group’s negotiations with the US, has been made deputy. Mohammad Yaqoob, Taliban founder Omar’s son, has been appointed acting defence minister....
...Some spent time in jail, including Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Taliban’s deputy leader and co-founder, or were detained in Guantánamo Bay....
...A few hours later, another helicopter arrived with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Afghanistan’s acting first deputy prime minister, who brought cash with him....
...Abdul Ghani Baradar, the Islamist group’s top political leader, returned to Afghanistan on Tuesday after two decades, flying into the southern city of Kandahar from Qatar, where he has lived since the US...
...But they were disappointed that Abdul Ghani Baradar, who led negotiations with the US, was not named prime minister....
...The onslaught left the government of Ashraf Ghani politically and militarily isolated, and facing an imminent Taliban attack....
...“It’s hard to imagine the Ghani government remaining in power [for long],” said Abdul Basit, a retired Pakistani diplomat....
...The US-led invasion in 2001 scattered the Taliban, with founders such as Hassan Akhund and Abdul Ghani Baradar — now prime minister and deputy prime minister respectively — fleeing overseas....
...Ghani fled the country before the Taliban takeover. Taliban leaders, including co-founder Abdul Ghani Baradar, arrived in Kabul over the weekend with the goal of forming a new administration....
...Qatari foreign minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al-Thani, who has been mediating between the rival Afghan parties, met the head of the Taliban’s political bureau, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, on Saturday...
...Ghani swallows his pride Ghani, a former World Bank official and author of a book on fixing failed states, was elected president in 2014....
...Mujahid spoke as a delegation led by Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, Taliban co-founder and political chief, arrived in the southern city of Kandahar, a stronghold of the Islamists, from Qatar on Tuesday evening...
...At a meeting in China in July with Wang Yi, China’s foreign minister, the head of the Afghan Taliban Political Commission, Abdul Ghani Baradar, was quoted as falling in line with China’s demands....
...Abdul Rahim Hashami, a businessman who recently imported a tonne of fertiliser from Pakistan, said “leakages” at customs posts have fallen to almost nothing....
...The degree of the international engagement was demonstrated by an unlikely visit by William Burns, the CIA director, to Kabul to meet Taliban leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar last week to discuss the evacuation...
...Zalmay Khalilzad, US special representative to Afghanistan, sat down with Taliban delegation leader Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar in a red-carpeted hall in Qatar to sign the deal that included American forces...
...The secret meeting with Taliban co-founder Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar took place in the Afghan capital on Monday, a person familiar with the encounter told the Financial Times, asking not to be identified...
...Talks between President Ashraf Ghani’s government and the Islamists have stalled....
...The two Taliban leaders with the greatest level of international exposure and best known to foreign governments, Abdul Ghani Baradar and Sher Mohammad Stanikzai, have also been effectively sidelined....
...Others such as Abdul Rashid Dostum and Atta Mohammad Noor are reportedly in exile. Any Afghan resistance would also struggle to attract international support....
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