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Marshal [not Marshall] Mohammed Qasim Fahim Khan is an ethnic Tajik who succeeded Ahmed Shah Mahsood as the Military Commander of the United Front (Northern Alliance) when Masoud was assassinated in 2001.
Today Fahim and his Northern Alliance faction form the backbone of Karzai's government, set up after the United States toppled the Taliban regime in 2001.
Fahim khan biography of martin
Fahim at first was Karzai's vice president, and survived an attempt on his life in the eastern city of Jalalabad during a spring visit in 2002.
Qasim Fahim was one of three members of the Northern Alliance's Shura-e Nazar faction from Panjsher Province who obtained a powerful cabinet post through the Bonn accords of late 2001.
The others -- Yunis Qanuni and Abdullah Abdullah -- also used their de facto control of Kabul at the time of the Bonn meeting to negotiate for ministry posts. The triumvirate of Fahim as defense minister, Qanuni as interior minister, and Abdullah as the foreign minister was -- in the beginning