Saleha Farooq Etemadi

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.

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