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Muhammad Fahim
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Afghan politician (1957-2014)
Key facts
- President
- Hamid Karzai
- Preceded by
- Ahmad Zia Massoud
- Succeeded by
- Yunus Qanuni
- Born
- 1957, Omarz, Panjshir , Kingdom of Afghanistan
- Died
- 9 March 2014 (aged 56 or 57), Kabul , Islamic Republic of Afghanistan
- Citizenship
- Afghanistan
- Allegiance
- Jamiat-e Eslami
- Branch
- Afghanistan National Army
- Service years
- 1978–2002
- Rank
- Marshal
- Commands
- Northern Alliance , State Security Agency
- Conflicts
- Soviet–Afghan War Afghan Civil War War against the Taliban Fall of Kabul (2001)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Muhammad
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Afghanistan
- Place of death
- Kabul
- Occupation
- military personnel
- Political party
- Jamiat-e Islami
- Conflict
- Soviet-Afghan War
- Military branch
- Afghan National Army
- Military rank
- general
- Image
- Mohammed Qasim Fahim.jpg
- Number of children
- 12
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- date of death
- 2014-03-09
- Commons category
- Mohammed Qasim Fahim
- date of birth
- 1957-01-01
- cause of death
- myocardial infarction
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
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.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Muhammad Fahim” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.