Talk:Abdul Ghani Baradar

A news item involving Abdul Ghani Baradar was featured on Wikipedia's Main Page in the In the news section on 16 February 2010.

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Ethnicity

Since Afghanistan is a multi-ethnic nation and people mix with one another we need to verify his ethnicity before we assume what he was. He was most likely a Pashtun but we need to be sure so a reliable and verfiable source is needed for this. Uruzgan Province is overwelmingly Pashtuns but it's right next to Hazara people area and some Tajik people also live among Pashtuns in the mostly Pashtun areas such as Kandahar, Helmand, Paktia, etc. Some Tajiks and others who adopted Pashtun culture are also among the Taliban.--119.73.6.234 (talk) 23:09, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Agreed. But both Interpol and this book state that he is Popolzai. Unless other reliable sources contradict that, I don't think there's much reason to doubt right now (see Washington Post too). Joshdboz (talk) 23:16, 16 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

According to our article on Popolzai it is a subgroup of Pashtuns. Geo Swan (talk) 00:46, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

"this murdering piece of human scum" lacks objectivity and needs revision

I suggest that "this murdering piece of human scum" lacks objectivity and needs revision. 67.8.162.105 (talk) 23:24, 17 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Barader?

In 2007 at least two sources [1] [2] reported that a Mullah Barader was killed in an airstrike. Is it the same person? username 1 (talk) 21:56, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I'm 99% sure it's the same guy. Per those links, I don't know any other top Taliban commander's "known colloquially as Mullah Brother, was close to Taliban leader Mullah Omar", "member of the Taliban leadership council" (aka Quetta shura), and "considered to be the second major commander of the Taliban after Mullah Dadullah, who was killed during NATO operations in May" (Dadullah was apparently his arch rival, per Newsweek). Like a number of cases in Pakistan, I think this was just a case of mistakenly thinking they'd killed him (see Ilyas Kashmiri, who was supposedly killed but then reappeared). Joshdboz (talk) 22:28, 19 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

I have a strong recollection that there is an honorific from that region, that sounds something like Baradur, that means "soldier". This may be an honorific -- not actually part of his name. Geo Swan (talk) 00:49, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

The Mullah and Baradar/Berader are just that, the latter meaning brother (see Baradari). But the sources clearly describe the same person. It's just the way they transliterate it. Some even use "Berader" now ([3] [4]). Joshdboz (talk) 11:49, 20 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Where is he now?

Has he been extradicted to Afghanistan? Or still in Pakistan? Rmhermen (talk) 16:55, 23 May 2011 (UTC)[reply]

DuckDuckGo snippet lists his name as "Gaylord"

How can we remove that, or does enough time need to pass? Or, is that something reliable sources can confirm? TuffStuffMcG (talk) 09:55, 15 August 2021 (UTC)[reply]