Saleha Farooq Etemadi | |
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Minister of Social Security | |
In office 1990-1992 | |
President | Mohammad Najibullah |
Premier | Fazal Haq Khaliqyar |
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.