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.

She was the chief of surgery at the main Kabul hospital in Wazir Akbar Khan before and after the Taliban.

Both she and her sister Sidiqa, who was a professor at the Kabul Polytechnical Institute, were two of very few women who successfully refused to wear the burka.

"[7] After the removal of the Taliban government from Afghanistan by the United States and British Armed Forces, Siddiq was appointed as the Minister of Public Health and sworn in by Interim President Hamid Karzai.

One of her first acts was to request help from the international community for the establishment of a medical work force of women.

[9] In July 2002, she met with a Chinese delegation who agreed to fund the renovation of what was promised to be Afghanistan's most modern hospital.