BBC News - Afghan vice-president Mohammad Qasim Fahim dies:
"Marshal Fahim was a leader of the Tajik ethnic minority and a former warlord.
He was part of the alliance that ousted the Taliban in 2001 and served first as defence minister, before becoming vice-president in 2009.
President Hamid Karzai's office told the Associated Press news agency that Marshal Fahim died from an illness."
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