General Ahsan Saleem Hyat (Urdu: احسن سلیم حیات; born 10 January 1948), is a retired four-star rank general officer who served as the vice chief of army staff of Pakistan Army from 2004 until his retirement in 2007. Prior to that, he served as the operational field commander of V Corps in Sindh Province and the full tenured professor of war studies at the National Defence University. He was succeeded by General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani on 8 October 2007.