Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry
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{{Infobox officeholder
| name = Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry
| honorific-prefix = Barrister
| office = President of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
| primeminister = Abdul Qayyum Niazi
Sardar Tanveer Ilyas
Chaudhry Anwarul Haq
| term_start = 25 August 2021
| office2 = Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir
| term_start2 = 30 July 1996
| term_end2 = 24 July 2001
| predecessor2 = Muhammad Abdul Qayyum Khan
| successor2 = Sardar Sikandar Hayat Khan
| party = PTI (2015-present)
| otherparty = PPP (2005-2015)
| alma_mater = Lincoln's Inn
| office3 = President of PTI Azad Kashmir
| term_start3 = 6 February 2015
| term_end3 = 9 September 2021
| 1blankname3 = Chairman
| 1namedata3 = Imran Khan
| successor3 = Muhammad Tanveer Ilyas Khan
| office4 = Member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly
| term_start4 = 3 August 2021
| term_end4 = 25 August 2021
| successor4 = Yasir Sultan Chaudhry
| constituency4 = LA-3 Mirpur-III
| image =
| term_end =
| predecessor = Masood Khan
| term_start5 = 24 November 2019
| term_end5 = 30 July 2021
| constituency5 = LA-3 Mirpur-III
| predecessor5 = Chaudhry Muhammad Saeed
| successor5 = Himself
| predecessor4 = Himself
| term_start6 = 1996
| term_end6 = 25 July 2016
| constituency6 = LA-3 Mirpur-III
| successor6 = Chaudhry Muhammad Saeed
| children = Yasir Sultan Chaudhry (son)
| native_name_lang = ur
| native_name = سلطان محمود چوہدری
| term_start7 = 1985
| term_end7 = 1991
| constituency7 = LA-3 Mirpur-III
| predecessor6 = Arshad Mahmood Ghazi
| predecessor7 = Chauhdry Noor Hussain
| successor7 = Arshad Mahmood Ghazi
}}
Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry ({{langx|ur|سلطان محمود چوہدری}}) is an Azad Kashmiri politician who hails from Mirpur. He was Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir from July 1996 to July 2001, and the President of Azad Kashmir since August 2021.{{cite web| url=http://www.pmajk.gov.pk/former%20PMs.asp| title=Former Prime Ministers of Azad Kashmir| publisher=Government of Azad Kashmir| accessdate=17 August 2021| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130715035603/http://www.pmajk.gov.pk/former%20PMs.asp| archivedate=15 July 2013}}
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 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.
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 and became president of Pakistan People's Party for Azad Kashmir. 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 addressed the issue, he (Sultan Mehmood)apologised and was allowed to join the party again. He rejoined the Pakistan Peoples Party again but won no seats in the AJK legislative assembly. In February 2015, he joined Pakistan Tehreek e Insaf 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{{cite web|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1161838|title=Former AJK PM joins PTI|date=6 February 2015|newspaper=Dawn (newspaper)|access-date=17 August 2021}} and lost the elections for the first time in 25 years on 21 July 2016.{{cite web|url=http://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/pml-n-candidate-defeats-pti-ajk-president-barrister-sultan-mahmood/|title=PML-N candidate defeats PTI AJK president Barrister Sultan Mahmood|date=21 July 2016|author=Khurram Shahzad|newspaper=Daily Pakistan (newspaper)|accessdate=17 August 2021}}
He was recently elected as the President of Azad Kashmir on 17 August 2021.
References
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External links
- [http://www.pmajk.gov.pk Office of the Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir]
{{Prime Ministers of Azad Kashmir}}
{{Presidents of Azad Kashmir}}
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