A good post from Wardman Wire from Sunny Peter on the arrest of the Taliban's military No 2 in Pakistan yesterday
Without doubt Mullah Baradar is an important catch. He has been credited with rebuilding the Taliban fighting force into an effective military organ since it was disseminated as a result of the US-led invasion in Afghanistan in the early part of this decade. Commentators are closely evaluating the implications that the arrest will have on US-led war on terror agenda in Afghanistan.
But as he notes
Mullah Baradar’s presence in Karachi was always known, and the arrest itself was without any resistance. This raises a few pertinent questions about the timing and the authenticity of the operation. Pakistan has deliberately sought to keep the US out of operations against the terrorists in its territory, even as it provided a safe haven to Taliban & al Qaeda commanders. It is easy to assume that Mullah Baradar’s arrest is a result of a larger geo-strategic design of the Pakistan’s Intelligence Agency.
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