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...He was an ally of the leading anti-Taliban fighter Ahmed Shah Masood, who was killed two days before the September 2001 attacks on the US and went on to fight alongside US troops to defeat the Taliban....
...Mr Sharma and Makhdoom Amin Fahim, his Pakistani counterpart, on Friday opened a freight handling centre at Wagah, the two countries’ main border crossing....
...Mr Fahim said two of his companies have borrowed $70m from Kabul Bank....
...Marshall Mohammad Fahim, a controversial military commander, is Mr Karzai’s running mate. The second question is whether a new presidency will usher in an era of better government....
...FT: You’ve been described as a confidant of Ahmed Shah Massoud. Now President Karzai has reached back into Afghanistan’s past to strike alliances with General Dostum....
...Although Mr Fahim remains the likeliest prime ministerial candidate, speculation has grown that Mr Zardari might name a Punjabi to run the government, with Yousuf Raza Gillani, Shah Mehmud Qureshi and Ahmed...
...Besides Mr Zardari, Amin Fahim, the most senior PPP leader after Bhutto, and Aitzaz Ahsan, the charismatic lawyer and former interior minister, are expected to be the leading contenders....
...Mr Zardari Sr. said he would not be the PPP’s prime ministerial candidate, suggesting that the party would most likely nominate Makhdoom Amin Fahim, the party’s vice-chairman....
...The president removed Mohammed Fahim and Yunus Qanooni from his cabinet in a reshuffle in 2004....
...Mr Karzai instead picked Ahmed Zia Masood, brother of the assassinated resistance leader Ahmed Shah Masood and ambassador to Russia, as his senior vice-presidential candidate....
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