[2] Just after days of re-electing for his second term, Prime Minister Sharif faced serious constitutional crises with the Supreme Court and the Presidency on the other side.
[3] Karamat was a recipient of Pakistan's highest military and civilian honours as well as occupied a good image in country's public circles.
[5] Unruly party workers stormed into the Supreme Court, forcing Chief Justice Sajjad Ali Shah to remove the finding of contempt against PM Nawaz Sharif.
[4] Hundreds of PML-N supporters and members of its youth wing, the Muslim Students Front (MSF), breached the police barrier around the courthouse when defence lawyer S.M.
[3][5] Chief Justice Shah wrote a letter to President Farooq Leghari to call the Pakistan Armed Forces to take action against Sharif.
[5] After the nuclear tests in 1998, a Defence Committee of the Cabinet (DCC) session was chaired with the Chairman and Chiefs of armed forces to overview the situation with India.
[6] While addressing the naval officers and cadets at the Naval War College, General Karamat stressed the re-creation of National Security Council (instead of DCC)[7] which would be backed by a "team of civil-military experts"[6] for devising policies to seek resolution ongoing problems relating the civil-military issues; also recommended a "neutral but competent bureaucracy and administration of at federal level and the establishment of Local governments in four provinces.
[6] Nawaz Sharif's dismissal of general Karamat,[7] plummeted his mandate in the public circles and criticism he received from Leader of the Opposition Benazir Bhutto was rogue.
Pakistan is finally becoming a normal democratic society.The relieve of General Karamat was a heated issue discussed even by his senior government ministers.
[11] Writing a thesis in his book, Between Dreams and Realities: Some Milestones in Pakistan's History, Aziz maintained: "Blunder of firing of General Karamatt; others will blame Nawaz Sharif for many mistakes he made.