Baradar Capture: Was There a Rift with Mullah Omar? - TIME

"[W]hile U.S.-Pakistan relations are better now, they are still fraught. As U.S. special envoy Richard Holbrooke, a veteran of the Balkans and other bruising diplomatic acts, remarked wearily on Feb. 18, during his seventh swing through Islamabad, 'This is the most complicated relation with an ally that I've ever experienced. I don't want to mislead you; it's still fragile.'"TIME