Rizwan Akhtar HS  HI(M) (Urdu: رضوان اختر) is a former three-star rank Pakistan Army general.

[1] Rizwan Akhtar was commissioned in the Pakistan Army in the Frontier Force Regiment in September 1982.

Akhar played a key role to restore normalcy in the Financial Capital which was reeling under high crime rate, gang-wars and terrorism.

[4][5] Akhtar is also considered to have extensive experience of counterinsurgency from a previous posting in the border region of South Waziristan.

At the US Army War College, Akhtar authored a strategy research project report titled ‘US-Pakistan trust deficit and the war on terror’ in fulfillment of the requirements of the Master in Strategic Studies Degree.