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General Jehangir Karamat is currently Ambassador of Pakistan to the United States. (He presented his credentials December 9, 2004. See [1] (http://www.embassyofpakistan.org/news117.php) and [2] (http://www.embassyofpakistan.org/news118.php)) He is also one of very few chiefs of the Pakistani army to have resigned over a disagreement with his civilian bosses.
General Karamat's name was first mentioned as a replacement for Ambassador Ashraf Jehangir Qazi around the end of September 2004, when Mr. Qazi was appointed by Kofi Annan, the Secretary General of the United Nations, to be his Special Representative to Iraq. The October 1, 2004, report on a website (see link below) appeared in this article the same day. The Embassy website did not reflect the appointment till about November 19.
General Karamat is a graduate of the National Defence College, the Command and Staff College, and the US Army Command and General Staff College Fort Leavenworth USA. He has a Masters in International Relations.
He retired as Chairman, Joints Chiefs of Staff and Chief of Army Staff in October 1998. His assignments have included Director General Military Operations and Chief of General Staff. He has also commanded troops in Saudi Arabia.
After his retirement General Karamat has been a visiting fellow at CISAC Stanford University, USA and the Brookings Institution Washington DC. He was part of a UN-sponsored study on Afghanistan and is Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute.
He has been Colonel Commandant and Colonel in Chief of the Pakistan Armored Corps. He was also President Pakistan Polo Association. His parent cavalry regiment is the 13th Lancers.
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