Afghan President Hamid Karzai (C) and Vice Presidents Mohammad Qasim Fahim (L) and Karim Khalili attend the funeral ceremony of slain former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, at the presidential palace in Kabul, September 23, 2011. REUTERS/S.Sabawoon/Pool
KABUL (Reuters) - The powerful Afghan vice president died of natural causes on Sunday, a government spokesman said, only weeks before Afghanistan goes to the polls to elect a new president.
Marshal Mohammad Qasim Fahim, vice president since 2009, had been a top commander in the Northern Alliance, a group of anti-Taliban militia leaders, during the civil war.
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