[2] Kaleem Saadat was born in Lyallpur (now Faisalabad), Punjab in Pakistan into a Punjabi-speaking Rajput family on 12 December 1951.: 84 [3][4] He was educated at the Air Force Public School in Sargodha and matriculated 14th out of 697 in his class in 1969.

[5] He entered in the Air Force Academy in Risalpur and passed out with the class of 51st GD(P) course, along with his close friend and classmate Rashid Minhas.

[6][7] Rashid Minhas was the trainee pilot who lost his life preventing his flight instructor from defecting to India in 1971 when their struggled for control of their aircraft caused it to crash.

His foreign tours include: Exchange Pilot in Turkey (1977–78); Deputation to Algeria (1980–83); War Course at the École Militaire, Paris, France (1989–90).

The PAF had the largest ever flying operations Exercise Highmark 2005 after nearly ten years' gap as well as holding its first ever tri-service wargame titled Tempest-I.