KABUL, June 20: Yunus Qanooni, a prominent figure in Afghanistan’s powerful Northern Alliance, has refused the post of education minister offered to him by transitional president Hamid Karzai, sources close to Qanooni said on Thursday.

Qanooni, who was interior minister in Karzai’s previous six-month interim administration, was upset and decided to stay at home for the day.

“The announcement was made without his consultation in a very hasty and indecent way,” one official close to Qanooni said.—AFP