# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/suhaila-seddiqi
# Generated: 2026-08-15T05:46:05.503Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/suhaila-seddiqi"
name: "Suhaila Seddiqi"
slug: "suhaila-seddiqi"
description: "Suhaila Siddiq, often referred to as 'General Suhaila' and the 'Golden Hand', 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."
tagline: "Afghan politician"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Sohaila_sediq.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "female"
category:
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  slug: "politicians"
profileType:
  name: "Politician"
  slug: "politician"
birthDate: "1949-03-11"
deathDate: "2020-12-04"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           45.51
  momentum:             0.427807486631016
  historical:           15.80702
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  60
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump