Jahangir Karamat جہانگیر کرامت | |
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| 6th Chief of Army Staff | |
| In office 12 January 1996 – 6 October 1998 | |
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| Prime Minister | |
| Preceded by | Abdul Waheed Kakar |
| Succeeded by | Pervez Musharraf |
| 9th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee | |
| In office 9 November 1997 – 7 October 1998 | |
| Preceded by | ACM Farooq Feroze Khan |
| Succeeded by | Gen. Pervez Musharraf |
| Pakistani Ambassador to the United States | |
| In office 17 November 2004 – 3 June 2006 | |
| President | Pervez Musharraf |
| Prime Minister | Shaukat Aziz |
| Preceded by | Ashraf Qazi |
| Succeeded by | Mahmud Ali Durrani |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 20 February 1941 Karachi, Sind, British India |
| Nationality | Pakistani |
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| Field(s) | Political science |
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| Notable work(s) | Work in civil-military relations and Decentralization |
| Military service | |
| Branch/service |  Pakistan Army |
| Years of service | 1958–1998 |
| Rank | General |
| Unit | 13th Lancers, Armoured Corps, PA-6399 |
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General Jehangir Karamat NI(M) HI(M) TBt (Urdu: جہانگیر کرامت ; born 20 February 1941) is a retired four-star rank military officer, diplomat, public intellectual, and a former professor of political science at the National Defense University.[1] Prior to serving as a Chief of Army Staff, he also served as the 9th Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee from 1997 to 1998.[2]
After joining the Pakistan Army in 1958, he entered in the Pakistan Military Academy at Kakul, and passed out in 1961 to later serve in the combat in conflicts with India in 1965 and in 1971. In 1995, he came into national prominence after he notably exposed the attempted coup d'état against Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto, and eventually appointed as an army chief and later Chairman joint chiefs. His tenure is regarded as his pivotal role in enhancing the democracy and the civilian control when he staunchly backed Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif's authorisation of atomic-testing programme in 1998.[3]
On 6 October 1998, Karamat was forcibly relieved from his four-star commands by Prime minister Nawaz Sharif over a disagreement on national security and reforms of the intelligence community.[4] 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.[5]
After his resignation, he accepted the professorship at the Stanford University in California and appointed as to head Pakistan's diplomatic mission as an Ambassador but was later removed due to strong advocacy for democracy.
Karamat has been credited for foresight prediction of the dangers of unbalanced civil-military relations and the rise of foreign-supported homegrown terrorism in the country.[4] Many of his recommendations on national security eventually became part of counterterrorism policy by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif in 2013.[4]
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