{"id":6176,"date":"2021-09-16T08:26:30","date_gmt":"2021-09-16T08:26:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/?p=6176"},"modified":"2021-09-16T08:26:30","modified_gmt":"2021-09-16T08:26:30","slug":"baradar-among-times-100-influential-people-in-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/2021\/09\/baradar-among-times-100-influential-people-in-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Baradar among Times\u2019 100 influential people in 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is revered among the\u00a0Taliban\u00a0as a founding member of the movement in 1994, a charismatic military leader and a deeply pious figure, noted Times in its list of 100 influential people of 2021.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When the Taliban swept to victory in August in\u00a0Afghanistan, it was on the terms\u00a0Baradar negotiated. He was said to be making all the major decisions, including the amnesty offered to members of the former regime, the lack of bloodshed when the Taliban entered Kabul and the regime\u2019s contacts and visits with neighboring states, especially China and Pakistan.<\/p>\n<p>Now he stands as the fulcrum for the future of Afghanistan. In the interim Taliban government, he was made a Deputy Prime Minister, the top role given to another leader more acceptable to the younger, more hard-line generation of Taliban commanders, reported Times.<\/p>\n<p>A quiet, secretive man who rarely gives public statements or interviews, Baradar nonetheless represents a more\u00a0moderate current\u00a0within the Taliban, the one that will be thrust into the limelight to win Western support and desperately needed financial aid. The question is whether the man who coaxed the Americans out of Afghanistan can sway his own movement.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ENDS<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MONITORING (SW) &#8211; Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar is revered among the\u00a0Taliban\u00a0as a founding member of the movement in 1994, a charismatic military leader and a deeply pious figure, noted Times in its list of 100 influential people of 2021.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6177,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,17,18,5,8,4,6,7],"tags":[12,13,649,660],"class_list":["post-6176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-soceity","category-security_","category-peace","category-politics_","category-governance","category-news_","category-afghanistan","category-headline","tag-afghanistan","tag-taliban","tag-baradar","tag-times"],"views":689,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6177"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swn.af\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}