Saleha Farooq Etemadi
Minister of Social Security
In office
1990-1992

Saleha Farooq Etemadi was an Afghan politician. She served as Minister of Social Security in 1990-1992.

In May 1990 she was appointed cabinet minister of Social Security in the government of Mohammad Najibullah.[1]

She was one of two women in the cabinet alongside Masuma Esmati-Wardak, and one of the first women in the Afghan government.[2] After the fall of the Communist regimen, no other woman was to be a member of Government in Afghanistan until Sima Samar in 2001.

References

  1. ↑ Emadi, Hafizullah, Repression, resistance, and women in Afghanistan, Praeger, Westport, Conn., 2002
  2. ↑ The first five was Kubra Noorzai in 1965, Shafiqa Ziaie in 1971, Anahita Ratebzad in 1976, Masuma Esmati-Wardak in 1990 and Saleha Farooq Etemadi in 1990.


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