Lieutenant General Suhaila Siddiq | |
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| Minister of Public Health of Afghanistan | |
| In office December 2001 – 2004 | |
| President | Hamid Karzai |
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| Born | 11 March 1938 Kabul, Afghanistan |
| Died | 4 December 2020 (aged 71) |
Suhaila Siddiq (11 March 1949[1] – 4 December 2020), often referred to as 'General Suhaila', was an Afghan politician. She served as the Minister of Public Health from December 2001 to 2004. Prior to that, she worked as the Surgeon General in the military of Afghanistan. As a government minister, she was given the title Honorable before her name. Siddiq was one of the few female government leaders in Afghanistan, and is the only woman in the history of Afghanistan to have held the title of lieutenant general. General Seddiq had worked for the government of Afghanistan since the reign of Mohammed Zahir Shah, and was additionally a paratrooper of the Afghan Commando Forces.[2]
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- ^ صالحی, زرغونه (2020-12-04). "د هېواد لومړنۍ جنراله او د عامې روغتیا پخوانۍ وزیره، ډاکتر سهیلا صدیق مړه شوه" (in Pashto). Retrieved 2024-06-27.