Ikram Sehgal completed Senior Cambridge and FSc from Lawrence College,
Ghoragali. He attended Murari Chand (MC) College, Sylhet and Notre Dame
College, Dhaka before graduating from Pakistan Military Academy (PMA),
Kakul.
Commissioned into 2E Bengal (Junior Tigers) in Oct 1965, the
infantry unit his father raised in 1949, he served in Army Aviation
(fixed wing and Helicopter Pilot) from 1968 to 1971. Taken PW in April
1971, in then East Pakistan, he was the first Pakistani PW to escape
from India in July 1971. Joining 44 Punjab (now 4 Sindh) in Nov 1971, he
was given battlefield promotion to the rank of Major on Dec 13, 1971,
leaving the Army on Jan 24, 1974.
He worked as a commercial pilot before
starting his own business in 1977. A regular columnist in the print
media since 1987, he graduated to his own TV Talk Show. Member of
international organizations like the prestigious World Economic Forum
(WEF), International Organization for Migration (IOM), etc. Ikram Sehgal
is presently Chairman Pathfinder G4S, Pakistan.
