Interpol says he is also known as Mullah Baradar Akhund and describes him as the Taliban's deputy minister of defence - his role until the Taliban were toppled in Afghanistan in 2001.
BBC: Profile: Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar
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The Taliban were shocked to discover in February that senior leader and former Defence Minister Mullah Obaidullah Akhund had died of a heart attack in a Pakistani prison in March 2010, and that the ISI had withheld the news.