General Abdul Waheed Kakar was a Pakistani army officer who served as the country’s Chief of Army Staff from January 1993 to January 1996. During the constitutional crisis of 1993 he brokered the resignations of President Ghulam Ishaq Khan and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, which led to fresh general elections. He died in Rawalpindi on 26 October 2026, aged 89.

Born in 1937, he was commissioned into the Frontier Force Regiment in 1959 and fought in the 1965 and 1971 wars with India.