n February last year, Baradar
signed a peace agreement with the US, hailed at the time by the Trump administration as a diplomatic triumph.
That year, he also met Mike Pompeo, Mr Trump's Secretary of State, who – publicly at least – seemed confident that America could now treat its old foe as a working partner of sorts and declared: "We welcome the Taliban's commitments not to host international terror groups including Al-Qaeda."
Four years ago, Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar was languishing in a Pakistani prison after being arrested for masterminding the Taliban's brutal military campaign in Afghanistan.
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