Academic Career
Before elevating to four-star assignments, General Karamat was the full tenured professor of the Strategic studies at the National Defense University and held the chair of military science at the Armed Forces War College. Among his notable students included Pervez Musharraf. He had deep influence on Musharraf's critical thinking and political philosophy. He played an important role in Musharraf's career and subsequently got him closer to Benazir Bhutto on military strategies and foreign affairs matters.
After his retirement, General Karamat became a visiting professor of war studies at CISAC Stanford University, and research associate at the Brookings Institution in Washington, D.C. He was also part of a U.N.-sponsored study on Afghanistan, and was Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Islamabad Policy Research Institute. He has stayed as the Colonel Commandant and Colonel-in-Chief, both ceremonial posts, of the Pakistan Armored Corps. He also stayed as the President of the Pakistan Polo Association.
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