Younis Qanuni appointed as new chief of HPC

Former chairman of Wolesi Jirga and former vice president, Muhammad Younis Qanuni appointed as the new Chairman of Afghanistan High Peace Council.

A source close to the National Unity Government (NUG) says that the measure was taken in National Security Council chaired by President Ashraf Ghani.

The source refused to present further details.

Mohammad Yunis Qanuni was born in 1957 in the Panjsher Valley. He is from the Panjshir Valley’s town of Rokha.

During the 1992-96 government of President Burhanuddin Rabbani, Qanooni was deputy defense minister, then interior minister.

Following Operation Enduring Freedom in 2001, Qanuni served as chief negotiator for the Northern Alliance delegation to the Bonn conference on Afghanistan after the Taliban fell from power, Qanuni served as the Interior Minister in Afghanistan’s Interim Administration headed by Chairman Hamid Karzai.

When Afghanistan’s Transitional Government was formed in 2002, Hamid Karzai chose Qanuni to be his Education Minister, what he didn’t accept.

Qanooni was reelected as a Wolesi Jirga Member 2010 and then former vice president After Marshal Fahim’s death.

The Afghanistan High Peace Council (HPC) is a body of the Afghanistan Peace and Reintegration Program, appointed by former President Hamid Karzai to negotiate with elements of the Taliban. The HPC was established on 5 September 2010.