Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry Explained

Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry
Honorific-Prefix:Barrister
Office:President of Azad Kashmir
Primeminister:Abdul Qayyum Niazi
Sardar Tanveer Ilyas
Chaudhry Anwarul Haq
Term Start:25 August 2021
Office2:Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir
Term Start2:30 July 1996
Term End2:24 July 2001
Predecessor2:Abdul Qayyum Khan
Successor2:Sardar Sikandar Hayat
Party:Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf
Otherparty:Pakistan Peoples Party
Peoples Muslim League
Azad Muslim Conference
Alma Mater:Lincoln's InnGovernment Gordon College
Office3:President of Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf Azad Kashmir
Term Start3:6 February 2015
Term End3:9 September 2021
1Blankname3:Chairman
1Namedata3:Imran Khan
Successor3:Sardar Tanveer Ilyas
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
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 (Urdu: سلطان محمود چوہدری) is an Azad Kashmiri politician who hails from Mirpur. He served as Prime Minister of Azad Kashmir between July 1996 to July 2001 and is currently serving as the President of Azad Kashmir since 25 August 2021.[1]

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. After completing his education, he came back from England to Mirpur in 1987 and joined his father's party Azad Muslim Conference and contested elections and won.

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 its Azad Kashmir chapter.

On 24 November 2019, he became a Member of the Azad Jammu and Kashmir Legislative Assembly in the by-elections in Mirpur. He owns a shopping plaza in Islamabad and his family owns brick-making factories. Many of their properties were sealed by Sardar Abdul Qayyum when he was the Prime Minister.

He joined Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf on 6 February 2015[2] and lost the elections for the first time in 25 years on 21 July 2016.[3]

He was recently elected as the President of Azad Kashmir on 17 August 2021.However in April 2023 his greed to become Prime Minister of the state, cost his son and brother in law their ministry’s [4]

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Former Prime Ministers of Azad Kashmir. Government of Azad Kashmir. 17 August 2021. dead. https://web.archive.org/web/20130715035603/http://www.pmajk.gov.pk/former%20PMs.asp. 15 July 2013.
  2. Web site: Former AJK PM joins PTI. 6 February 2015. Dawn (newspaper). 17 August 2021.
  3. Web site: PML-N candidate defeats PTI AJK president Barrister Sultan Mahmood. 21 July 2016. Khurram Shahzad. Daily Pakistan (newspaper). 17 August 2021.
  4. News: PTI's Barrister Sultan Mahmood elected AJK president. 17 August 2021. Dawn (newspaper).