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Mohammed Fahim

Field Marshal
Mohammed Fahim
محمد فهیم
Mohammad Fahim in 2004 cropped.jpg
Mohammed Fahim in 2004
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
19 September 2001 – 1 December 2004
President Burhanuddin Rabbani
Hamid Karzai
Preceded by Ahmad Shah Massoud
Succeeded by Abdurrahim Wardak
Personal details
Born 1957
Omarz, Panjshir, Afghanistan
Died (aged 56 or 57)
Kabul, Afghanistan
Spouse(s) Nahid Fahim (1979–2014)
Children 12
Religion Sunni Islam
Military service
Nickname(s) Marshal Fahim
Allegiance Afghanistan
Service/branch Afghanistan National Army
Years of service 1978–2002
Rank US-O11 insignia.svg Field Marshal
Commands Northern Alliance
State Security Agency
Battles/wars Russian war in Afghanistan
War in Afghanistan (1996–2001)
War against the Taliban

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.

Fahim was born in Omarz, a small village in the Panjshir Province of Afghanistan. He was the son of Abdul Matin from the Panjshir Valley. He is reported to have finished his studies in Islamic Sharia law at an Arabic institute in Kabul in 1977. Some sources have allegedly claimed that Fahim served as a member of the former Afghan intelligence service, KHAD, during the 1980s, although most reports indicate that he has been fighting the Communist rulers since the late 70s. He is said to have fled Afghanistan after the Communist coup of 1978, he became a refugee in Peshawar. He returned to Panjshir and began to work under Commander Ahmad Shah Masood.


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