Editing Mohammad Qasim Fahim (section)

{{short description|Afghan politician (1957-2014)}}
{{Other people||Mohammad Qasim (disambiguation){{!}}Mohammad Qasim}}
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| name                = Mohammad Qasim Fahim
| native_name         = محمد قسیم فهیم
| image               = Fahim 2001 (cropped).jpg
| image_size          = 175px
| caption             = Fahim in 2001
| order               = [[Vice President of Afghanistan|First Vice President of Afghanistan]]
| term_start          = 19 November 2009
| term_end            = 9 March 2014
| president           = [[Hamid Karzai]]
| predecessor         = [[Ahmad Zia Massoud]]
| successor           = [[Yunus Qanuni]]
| order1              = [[Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan)|Minister of Defence]]
| term_start1         = 13 November 2001
| term_end1           = 23 December 2004
| president1          = [[Burhanuddin Rabbani]]<br />[[Hamid Karzai]]
| predecessor1        = [[Ahmad Shah Massoud]]
| successor1          = [[Abdurrahim Wardak]]
| order2              = [[KHAD|Directors of KHAD]]
| term_start2         = April 1992
| term_end2           = April 1996
| president2          = [[Sibghatullah Mojaddedi]]<br />[[Burhanuddin Rabbani]]
| predecessor2        = Osman Sultani
| successor2          = Position abolished
| birth_date          = 1957
| birth_place         = [[Omarz]], [[Panjshir Province|Panjshir]], [[Kingdom of Afghanistan]]
| death_date          = {{death date and given age|df=yes|2014|3|09|56 or 57}}
| death_place         = [[Kabul]], [[Islamic Republic of Afghanistan]]
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| children            = 12
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| footnotes           = <!--Military service-->
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| allegiance          = {{flag|Islamic Republic of Afghanistan}}
| branch              = [[Afghan National Army|Afghanistan National Army]]
| branch_label        = Branch
| serviceyears        = 1978–2002
| serviceyears_label  = Service&nbsp;years
| rank                = Marshal [[File:Afgn-Army-Marshal(Field Marshal).svg|15px]]
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| commands            = [[Northern Alliance]]<br />[[KHAD|State Security Agency]]
| battles             = {{tree list}}
*[[Soviet–Afghan War]]
*[[Afghan Civil War (1996–2001)|Afghan Civil War]]
*[[War in Afghanistan (2001–present)|War against the Taliban]]
**[[Fall of Kabul (2001)]]
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'''Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim''' ({{langx|prs| مارشال محمد قسیم فهیم}}; {{Circa|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.<ref>[http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8032185.stm Karzai registers for re-election], BBC News (4 May 2009)</ref> He was considered a powerful and influential figure during the [[Karzai Administration]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |date=2014-03-09 |title=Afghanistan's powerful Vice President Fahim dies |language=en |work=Reuters |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-afghanistan-vp-dies-idUSBREA2806D20140309 |access-date=2023-02-05}}</ref>

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 [[Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan (1996–2001)|Taliban government]] as a military commander of the [[Northern Alliance]]. Between December 2001 and December 2004, he served as [[Ministry of Defense (Afghanistan)|Defense Minister]] under the [[Afghan Transitional Administration]]. In 2004, [[List of Presidents of Afghanistan|President]] [[Hamid Karzai]] provided Fahim the honorary title [[Marshal]] and a year later, he became member of the [[Meshrano Jirga|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.<ref name=":0" />