General Jehangir Karamat retired as the Chairman Joint Chiefs and Chief of Army Staff Pakistan in October 1998. He is an active participant in Track II dialogues and was a Commissioner on the International Commission on Non-Proliferation and Disarmament from 2009 to 2010.

General Karamat was a visiting fellow at CISAC and Brookings from 1999 to 2000. He is on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Public Policy Beaconhouse National University and is a member of the senate of The National Defense University Islamabad and the Board of Governors of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute.

He is a graduate of the Pakistan Army Command and Staff College, the US Army Command and Staff College and the National Defense College Pakistan. He has a Masters in International Relations from Quaide Azam University Islamabad. He was Pakistan's Ambassador to the United States from 2004-2006.

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