Shahid Karimullah

Shahid Karimullah
Admiral Karimullah, center, presented with the Legion of Merit by U.S. CNO Admiral Vern Clark, ca. 2004
Pakistan Ambassador to the Saudi Arabia
In office 29 January 2005 – 21 March 2009
Chief of Naval Staff
In office 3 October 2002 – 6 October 2005
Preceded by	Adm. Abdul Aziz Mirza
Succeeded by	Adm. Afzal Tahir
Personal details
Born	Shahid Karimullah (1948-02-14) 14 February 1948 (age 69) Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
Citizenship	Pakistan
Nationality	Pakistani
Alma mater	Naval War College National Defence University
Military service
Allegiance	Pakistan
Service/branch	Pakistan Navy
Years of service	1965–2005
Rank	Admiral (S/No. PN 1126)
Unit	Naval Operations Branch
Commands	Commander Pakistan Fleet 25th Destroyer Squadron DCNS (Operations) Chief Instructor at NDU Islamabad ACNS (Personnel)
Battles/wars	Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 Indo-Pakistani War of 1971 Bangladesh Liberation War 2001–02 Indo-Pakistani Standoff
Awards	Gallant Commander (2005) Légion d'honneur (2005) Legion of Merit (2004) Nishan-e-Imtiaz (2002) Hilal-e-Imtiaz (2001) Sitara-e-Imtiaz (2001) Tamgha-e-Imtiaz (2000) Sitara-i-Jurat (1971)

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Indo-Pakistani War of 1971

Admiral Shahid Karimullah (Urdu: شاهد كريم الله; b. 14 February 1948), LH, LM, NI(M), HI(M), HI(M), TI(M), SJ, is a retired four-star rank admiral, diplomat, and a defence columnist who briefly tenured as the Chief of Naval Staff from 2002 until 2005.

Prior to that, he also served as the Pakistan Ambassador to Saudi Arabia from 2005 until retiring from the foreign service in 2009.

Shahid Karimullah was born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan on 14 February 1948 to an Urdu-speaking family who belongs to Hyderabad Deccan in India but migrated to Pakistan following partition of British Indian in 1947. He comes from a military family and his father, Lieutenant-Commander Muhammad Karimullah also served in the Royal Indian Navy and later the Pakistan Navy.