Jehangir Karamat - Chairman of Joint Chiefs

Chairman of Joint Chiefs

General Karamat was appointed for a prestigious four star assignment, the chairmanship of Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee in November 1997 by the then Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif when the previous chairman Air Chief Marshal Farooq Feroze Khan's three-year term ended. General Karamat drove Pakistan Armed Forces to focus on more professional duties rather than playing politics. In 1998, Karamat let the decision of county's atomic experiments on Prime minister and was publicly hailed for backing the democracy in the country.

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