Abdul Waheed Kakar

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Abdul Waheed Kakar (born 23 March 1937) is a retired senior military officer of the Pakistan Army who served as the fifth Chief of Army Staff, appointed by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif on 12 January 1993 after the controversial death of his predecessor General Asif Nawaz. Upon the completion of his three-year tenure, Kakar retired in 1996. Notably, Kakar superseded five senior high ranking army generals with more years of seniority. General Kakar oversaw national general elections, upon securing the resignations of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to resolve the Constitutional crisis in 1993. Abdul Waheed Kakar was born into a Pashtun family of the Abdullah Zai (Male Zai), in the Shahābzai Kakar tribe village of Zhob, Balochistan in British India (now, Pakistan) on 23 March 1937. His tribe, Kakar, originally hailed from Zhob, Baluchistan in Pakistan, and was fluent in Pashto. His family later had migrated to North and eventually found a way to be settled in Peshawar. His uncle, Abdur Rab Nishtar, was listed as one of the founding fathers of Pakistan who would later serve as the Governor of Punjab as well as serving as the President of Pakistan Muslim League. After graduating from local high school in 1955, Kakar went to attend the Edwardes College where he secured his graduation. He joined the Pakistan Army in 1956, and was directed to attend the Pakistan Military Academy in Kakul where he was expected to pass out from the academy in 1958 but was held back for a 6-month term.