Saleha Farooq Etemadi
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Saleha Farooq Etemadi | |
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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
- ^ Emadi, Hafizullah, Repression, resistance, and women in Afghanistan, Praeger, Westport, Conn., 2002
- ^ 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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