Mohammad Fahim

Mohammad Fahim
محمد فهیم
Fahim in 2004
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 9 September 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, Afghanistan
Died	9 March 2014 (aged 56 or 57) Kabul, Afghanistan
Children	12 (Adib Fahim)
Military service
Allegiance	Afghanistan
Branch/service	Afghanistan National Army
Years of service	1978–2002
Rank	Marshal
Commands	Northern Alliance State Security Agency
Battles/wars	Soviet–Afghan War War in Afghanistan (1996–2001) War against the Taliban Fall of Kabul (2001)

Mohammad Qasim Fahim (Dari: محمد فهیم, popularly known as "Marshal Fahim"; 1957 – 9 March 2014) was an Afghan military commander and politician who served as Vice President of Afghanistan from June 2002 until December 2004 and from November 2009 until his death.^[1] He was considered a powerful and influential figure during the Karzai Administration.^[2]

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.^[2]