Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry () is an Azad Kashmiri politician who hails from Mirpur. He was

Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir The prime minister of Azad Kashmir (Urdu: , romanized: Wazīr ē Aʿẓam lit. 'Grand Vizier', Urdu pronunciation: �əˈziːr-ˌeː ˈɑː.zəm is the chief executive of Azad Jammu and Kashmir region of Pakistan. The title of Prime Minister ...

from July 1996 to July 2001, and the

President of Azad Kashmir The president of Azad Kashmir (Urdu: , romanized: ''s̤adr-i Azād Kaṣhmīr'' lit. 'President of Azad Kashmir', Urdu pronunciation: ̤ə'dr-e: a:'za:d kə'ʂmi:r, officially the president of the State of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, is the const ...

since August 2021.

Early life

Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry is the son of the late Kashmiri leader Chaudhary Noor Hussain Jatt who also founded Azad Muslim Conference along with

Sardar Ibrahim Khan Sardar Ibrahim Khan (, ər'da:r ɪbra:'ɦi:m xa:n 22 April 1915 – 31 July 2003) was a revolutionary leader and politician from the western region of Jammu and Kashmir (present-day Azad Kashmir), who led the 1947 Poonch Rebellion against th ...

but after Sardar Ibrahim Khan left the party, he led it alone. He belongs to a Jatt family and his family has contributions in the movement for a free Jammu and Kashmir. He has also been a member of

Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly The Legislative Assembly of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, also known as AJK Legislative Assembly is a unicameral legislature of elected representatives of the autonomous state of Azad Jammu and Kashmir, which is located in Muzaffarabad. It was establ ...

Political career

In the second elections there, Chaudhry Muhammad Rasheed, Chaudhry Khadim Hussain and Chaudhry Yasin won. Then Sultan Mehmood merged his party with the Liberation league and became its President. Later he left that party and joined

Pakistan Peoples Party The Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is a political party in Pakistan and one of the three major List of political parties in Pakistan, Pakistani political parties alongside the Pakistan Muslim League (N) and Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf. With a Cent ...

and became president of Pakistan People's Party for

Azad Kashmir Azad Jammu and Kashmir (), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir ( ), is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee: * * * and constituting the western portion of the larger ...

. Then he became Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. He faced some problems in the PPP which led to him quitting the party. He then founded his own party Peoples Muslim League in 2005 and his party won 5 seats in the Legislative Assembly. Later when

Benazir Bhutto Benazir Bhutto (21 June 1953 – 27 December 2007) was a Pakistani politician who served as the 11th prime minister of Pakistan from 1988 to 1990, and again from 1993 to 1996. She was also the first woman elected to head a democratic governmen ...

addressed the issue, he (Sultan Mehmood)apologised and was allowed to join the party again. He rejoined the

again but won no seats in the AJK legislative assembly. In February 2015, he joined

Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf The Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) is a political party in Pakistan established in 1996 by cricketer and politician Imran Khan, who served as the country's prime minister from 2018 to 2022. The party is led by Gohar Ali Khan since late 2023. ...

and became president of the party at Azad Kashmir. On 24 November 2019, he became a Member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in the by-elections in Mirpur. He joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on 6 February 2015 and lost the elections for the first time in 25 years on 21 July 2016. He was recently elected as the President of

on 17 August 2021.

References

External links

Office of the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir
{{DEFAULTSORT:Chaudhry, Sultan Mehmood Jat Living people Year of birth missing (living people) Government Gordon College alumni Pakistani barristers Prime ministers of Azad Kashmir Presidents of Azad Kashmir