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India-Pakistan
Mullah Baradar awaits fate in Karachi safe house
2013-09-23
[Dawn] Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a former Taliban second-in-command released in Pakistain this weekend, is being kept in a safe house in Bloody Karachi
...formerly the capital of Pakistain, now merely its most important port and financial center. It is among the largest cities in the world, with a population of 18 million, most of whom hate each other and many of whom are armed and dangerous...
 as regional powers debate what role he could play in the Afghan grinding of the peace processor, sources in Pakistain said on Sunday.
Golly. One wonders who his neighbors are.
Afghanistan sees Baradar as a respected figure who could use his influence among the Taliban to help coax moderate commanders to the negotiating table and convince warring parties to stop fighting after more than a decade of war.

The whereabouts of Baradar, one of the founders of the Taliban insurgency, has been the subject of speculation since Pakistain announced he would be released some time on Saturday.

There has been no official confirmation of his location.

"Mullah Baradar was flown to Karachi from Beautiful Downtown Peshawar
...capital of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (formerly known as the North-West Frontier Province), administrative and economic hub for the Federally Administered Tribal Areas of Pakistan. Peshawar is situated near the eastern end of the Khyber Pass, convenient to the Pak-Afghan border. Peshawar has evolved into one of Pakistan's most ethnically and linguistically diverse cities, which means lots of gunfire.
 early on Sunday. He is being kept in a safe location in Karachi," one Pak intelligence source told Rooters.

A government source with knowledge of the situation said separately: "He will not be sent to Afghanistan. He is in a safe house in Karachi. ... Everything will be decided between Pakistain, Afghanistan and the United States."
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