Jehangir Karamat
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General Jehangir Karamat جہانگیر کرامت |
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| Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee | |
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In office 9 November 1997 – 7 October 1998 |
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| Preceded by | ACM Farooq Feroze Khan |
| Succeeded by | Gen Pervez Musharraf |
| Chief of Army Staff | |
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In office 12 January 1996 – 6 October 1998 |
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| Preceded by | Gen Abdul Waheed Kakar |
| Succeeded by | Gen Pervez Musharraf |
| Pakistan Ambassador to the United States | |
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In office 17 November 2004 – 3 June 2006 |
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| President | Gen Pervez Musharraf |
| Prime Minister | Shaukat Aziz |
| Preceded by | General Jehangir Qazi |
| Succeeded by | Maj. Gen. Mahmud Ali Durrani |
| Personal details | |
| Born |
20 February 1941 Karachi, Sind, British India (now Karachi, Pakistan) |
| Citizenship |
 Pakistan
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| Nationality | Pakistan |
| Alma mater |
Pakistan Military Academy Command and Staff College Command and General Staff College National Defence University |
| Religion | Islam |
| Awards |
 Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sitara-e-Basalat Legion of Merit
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| Institutions |
National Defence University (NDU) Armed Forces War College (afwc) |
| Field(s) | Political science |
| Notable students |
Pervez Musharraf Ali Kuli Khan Aziz Mirza Fasih Bokhari |
| Notable work(s) | Work in civil-military relations and Decentralization |
| Military service | |
| Nickname(s) | Spearhead JK |
| Service/branch |
 Pakistan Army
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| Years of service | 1961–1998 |
| Rank |
 General |
| Unit | 13th Lancers, Army Armoured Corps |
| Commands |
DG for Military Operations II Strike Corps Pakistan Army Rangers 6th Armored Brigade Group Pakistan Armed Forces, Middle East Contingent |
| Battles/wars |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 |
Jehangir Karamat, (Urdu: جہانگیر کرامت; born 20 February 1941) NI(M), SBt, is a retired four-star rank army general, 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 the Chief of Army Staff of Pakistan Army from January 1996 to October 1998. After retiring from military service, he continued as a professor of Political science at the National Defence University (NDU) in Islamabad. In 2004, he was appointed as Pakistan 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 in 1961 and served well in 1965 and the 1971 war with India. After his long active service in the army in which he held numerous prestigious assignments, he came to national prominence in 1995 when along with Major-General Ali Kuli Khan of Military Intelligence (MI) exposed the attempted coup d'état against the government of Prime minister Benazir Bhutto who conferred him with national award. In 1996, he was promoted to four-star rank and became Chief of Army Staff, and later became Chairman Joint Chiefs in 1997. He played a vital role in enhancing the democratic institutions in Pakistan, and staunchly backed Nawaz Sharif's authorisation of atomic-testing programme in 1998. On 6 October 1998, Karamat was forced to relieved from his four-star commands by Prime minister Nawaz Sharif over a disagreement on national security.
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