Abdul Baradar

Abdul Baradar is a senior official, possibly the #2 operational commander, of the Quetta shura branch of the Taliban, with allegiance to Mullah Omar. He was captured, in Karachi, Pakistan, by what appears to have been an unprecedented cooperation between Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence and the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency. Some sources, however, suggest variously that the capture was a lucky accident, or part of even more complex Pakistan-US dynamics.