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General (Ret.) Jehangir Karamat is a Pakistani military officer and diplomat. General Karamat graduated from the Pakistan Military Academy and joined the Armored Corps of the Pakistan Army. He was in combat in the 1965 and 1971 India-Pakistan Wars and eventually rose to the position of Chairman of the Pakistani Joint Chiefs of Staff Committee before retiring from the armed forces.

He was the Pakistani Ambassador to the United States from November 2004 to June 2006. After this ambassadorship, General Karamat founded a sociopolitical policy and analysis institute, Spearhead Research, which focuses on social, economic, military and political issues connected to Pakistan and Afghanistan.