Yunus Qanuni

Yunus Qanuni یونس قانونی
Vice President of Afghanistan
In office 31 March 2014 – 29 September 2014
President	Hamid Karzai
Preceded by	Mohammed Fahim
Succeeded by	Abdul Rashid Dostum
Speaker of the House of the People
In office 7 December 2005 – 6 December 2010
Deputy	Mirwais Yasini
Preceded by	Position established
Succeeded by	Abdul Rauf Ibrahimi
Personal details
Born	1957 (age 59–60) Panjshir, Afghanistan
Political party	New Afghanistan Party
Religion	Islam

Yunus Qanuni (Persian: یونس قانونی, born 1957) is an Afghan politician who was Vice President of Afghanistan. An ethnic Tajik from the Panjshir Valley in Afghanistan, Qanuni is the leader of the Afghanistan e Naween (New Afghanistan) political party and former Speaker of the House of the People (the lower house of parliament or Wolesi Jirga).

Following the Soviet Intervention of Afghanistan in 1979, Qanuni joined with the mujahideen force led by Ahmad Shah Massoud based in his native Panjshir Valley. A protégé of Massoud, he was involved in the creation of the Afghan Northern Alliance and served as Interior Minister in Burhanuddin Rabbani's government. After the assassination of Massoud in 2001, a trio consisting of Qanuni, Defence Minister Mohammed Fahim and Foreign Minister Dr Abdullah took defacto control of the Northern Alliance and its financial resources.

As a member of the Northern Alliance, he supported the United States invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, but opposed Pakistani involvement, as Pakistan favored a reformed Taliban government rather than a new government based upon the Afghan Northern Alliance. In 2001, Qanuni served as chief negotiator for the Afghan Northern Alliance delegation to the Bonn conference on Afghanistan in Bonn, Germany.

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