Mohammad Qasim Fahim
Mohammad Qasim Fahim | |
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| محمد قسیم فهیم | |
Fahim in 2001 | |
| First Vice President of Afghanistan | |
| In office 19 November 2009 – 9 March 2014 | |
| President | Hamid Karzai |
| Preceded by | Ahmad Zia Massoud |
| Succeeded by | Yunus Qanuni |
| Minister of Defence | |
| In office 13 November 2001 – 23 December 2004 | |
| President | Burhanuddin Rabbani Hamid Karzai |
| Preceded by | Ahmad Shah Massoud |
| Succeeded by | Abdurrahim Wardak |
| Directors of KHAD | |
| In office April 1992 – April 1996 | |
| President | Sibghatullah Mojaddedi Burhanuddin Rabbani |
| Preceded by | Osman Sultani |
| Succeeded by | Position abolished |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 1957 Omarz, Panjshir, Kingdom of Afghanistan |
| Died | (aged 56 or 57) Kabul, Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |
| Children | 12 |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance | Islamic Republic of Afghanistan |
| Branch | Afghanistan National Army |
| Service years | 1978–2002 |
| Rank | Marshal |
| Commands | Northern Alliance State Security Agency |
| Conflicts | |
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Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim (Dari: مارشال محمد قسیم فهیم; c. 1957 – 9 March 2014) was an Afghan military commander and politician and the 2nd Marshal of Afghanistan who served as Vice President of Afghanistan from June 2002 until December 2004 and from November 2009 until his death. He was considered a powerful and influential figure during the Karzai Administration.
Affiliated with Ahmad Shah Massoud's Jamiat Islami (Shura-e Nazar) party, Fahim captured the Afghan capital Kabul in the fall of 2001 from the Taliban government as a military commander of the Northern Alliance. Between December 2001 and December 2004, he served as Defense Minister under the Afghan Transitional Administration. In 2004, President Hamid Karzai provided Fahim the honorary title Marshal and a year later, he became member of the House of Elders. He later became a recipient of the Ahmad Shah Baba Medal. Fahim died due to natural causes in 2014; the president declared three days of national mourning in honor of him.