“July 28 (Xinhua) -- Chinese State Councilor and Foreign Minister Wang Yi on Wednesday met here with Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, political chief of Afghanistan's Taliban”
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2021-07/28/c_1310092289.htm

“Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, a battle-hardened veteran of Afghanistan's war with the Soviet Union, has been tipped to become president of a Taliban led Afghan government”
https://www.express.co.uk/news/worl...t-joe-biden-baradar-jihad-terror-attacks

“Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar ... co-founder of the Taliban ... was captured in Pakistan by a team of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers in February 2010 and was released on 24 October 2018 at the request of the United States.”
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Ghani_Baradar