Jehangir Karamat

Who is Jehangir Karamat?

General Jehangir Karamat, NI, SBt, is a retired four-star rank general officer, military academic, and a former professor of political science at the National Defense University who held four-star assignments, the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1997 to 1998, and as well as the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan Army from January 1996 to October 1998. After retiring from military service, he served as a professor of Political science at the National Defence University in Islamabad. In 2004 he was appointed as Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States where he served from November 2004 until June 2006. He is also one of very few army generals in the military history of Pakistan to have resigned over a disagreement with the civilian authorities.

He attended and graduated from Pakistan Military Academy and served well in 1965 war and the 1971 Winter war with India.