Journalist Ahmed Rashid wrote: “On February 8, 2010, the ISI [Pakistan’s Inter-Services Intelligence] infuriated [Afghan President Hamid] Karzai by arresting [Taliban co-founder] Mullah Baradar in Karachi [Pakistan], along with a dozen senior Taliban figures who were loyal to him. It was a joint ISI-CIA operation, but senior Pakistani military officials told me later that the real reason for his arrest was not to please the Americans, but rather the ISI’s conviction that Baradar had held secret talks with the Americans and had received a $5 million bribe from the CIA without informing the ISI. In fact, Baradar had only been talking to Karzai’s brothers and would never have double-crossed [Taliban leader] Mullah Omar by talking to the Americans.”
– Ahmed Rashid, Pakistan on the Brink, Pages 130-131