{"id":665713,"date":"2010-02-16T10:34:44","date_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:34:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/washingtonindependent.com\/?p=76654"},"modified":"2010-02-16T10:34:44","modified_gmt":"2010-02-16T15:34:44","slug":"taliban%e2%80%99s-baradar-in-his-own-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/665713","title":{"rendered":"Taliban\u2019s Baradar, in His Own Words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek has intelligently <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/208638\">re-posted the transcript of an interview<\/a> Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar &#8212; the captured Taliban leader &#8212; granted the magazine late last year. A lot of what he says is boilerplate propaganda, but in light of U.S. and Pakistani intelligence reportedly collaborating on his capture, this bit takes on some salience:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><strong>What about reports that Pakistani intelligence is advising you not to enter into peace talks at this time?<br \/>\n<\/strong>The Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan is independent and sovereign in its decisions and agreements. It is not taking any dictation from any group or government.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Do you fear that Pakistan would stop you from using its soil?<br \/>\n<\/strong>They have not given us permission to use their land even now.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Always correct or just prematurely correct?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsweek has intelligently re-posted the transcript of an interview Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar &#8212; the captured Taliban leader &#8212; granted the magazine late last year. A lot of what he says is boilerplate propaganda, but in light of U.S. and Pakistani intelligence reportedly collaborating on his capture, this bit takes on some salience: What about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2762,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-665713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Nbj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2762"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=665713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/665713\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=665713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=665713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=665713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}