Mohammed Fahim Politician

Mohammad Qasim Fahim (Pashto/Persian:محمد فهیم, also known as "Marshal Fahim"; 1957 – 9 March 2014) was a politician in Afghanistan who served as Vice President from June 2002 until December 2004 and from November 2009 until his death. Between September 2001 and December 2004, he also served as Defense Minister under the Afghan Transitional Administration.As military commander of the Northern Alliance, Fahim captured the Afghan capital Kabul in the fall of 2001 from the Taliban government. 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 was a member of Afghanistan's Tajik ethnic group. He was affiliated with the Jamiat Islami (Shura-e Nazar) party of Afghanistan.

Personal facts

Birth date	January 01, 1957
Birth place	Afghanistan , Panjshir Province , Omarz
Date of death	March 09, 2014
Place of death	Afghanistan , Kabul

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Office holder

military operations	Civil war in Afghanistan (1996–2001) War in Afghanistan (2001–present) Soviet war in Afghanistan
military branch	Afghan National Army
military command	Northern Alliance State Security Agency
military rank	Field marshal
president	Burhanuddin Rabbani Hamid Karzai
service end	2002
service start	1978
successor	Abdul Rahim Wardak Yunus Qanuni