Saleha Farooq Etemadi Explained

Saleha Farooq Etemadi
Office1:Minister of Social Security
Term1:1990-1992

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.

Notes and 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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