Abdul Waheed Kakar | |
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| 5th Chief of Army Staff | |
| In office 8 January 1993 – 12 January 1996 | |
| President | Ghulam Ishaq Khan Wasim Sajjad (acting) Farooq Leghari |
| Prime Minister | Nawaz Sharif Moeenuddin Ahmad Qureshi (caretaker) Benazir Bhutto |
| Preceded by | Asif Nawaz Janjua |
| Succeeded by | Jehangir Karamat |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 23 March 1937 Peshawar, NWFP, British India (Now, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan) |
| Military service | |
| Allegiance |  Pakistan |
| Branch/service |  Pakistan Army |
| Years of service | 1956–1996 |
| Rank |   General |
| Unit | 5th Frontier Force Regiment 27th Azad Kashmir Regiment |
| Commands | Chief of Army Staff XII Corps in Peshawar Adjutant General, Army GHQ GOC 16th Infantry Division 27th Azad Kashmir Regiment |
| Battles/wars | Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 |
| Awards |  Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Basalat_-_Grand_Cordon.png){kind=small} Order of Military Merit |
General Abdul Waheed Kakar NI(M) HI(M) SBt (Urdu: عبدالوحید کاکڑ; born 23 March 1937), is a retired senior officer of the Pakistan Army who served as the fifth chief of army staff, appointed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 January 1993 upon death of his predecessor Asif Nawaz Janjua, he remained in office until retiring on 12 January 1996.
His appointment came in response to the sudden death of tenuring army chief, General Asif Nawaz, and notably superseded five senior high ranking army generals with more years of seniority.[1] General Kakar oversaw the national general elections, after he secured the resignations of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resolve the Constitutional crisis in 1993.[2]
- ^ Maleeha Lodhi. Pakistan's encounter with democracy (Vanguard, 1994).
- ^ Cowasjee, Ardeshir (2009-03-01). "Here we go again". Dawn. Retrieved 2022-07-24.