| Aftab Sultan | |
| Native Name: | آفتاب سلطان |
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| Office: | Chairman of the National Accountability Bureau |
| Term Start: | 21 July 2022 |
| Term End: | 21 February 2023 |
| President: | Arif Alvi |
| Primeminister: | Shehbaz Sharif |
| Predecessor: | Javed Iqbal |
| Successor: | Nazir Ahmed Butt |
| Birth Place: | Faisalabad District, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Nationality: | Pakistani |
| Office1: | Director-general of the Intelligence Bureau |
| Termstart1: | June 2013 |
| Termend1: | April 2018 |
| Successor1: | Dr. Suleman Khan |
| Predecessor1: | Akhtar Hassan Khan Gorchani |
| Office2: | Inspector-general of police of Punjab Police |
| Termstart2: | 1 April 2013 |
| Termend2: | 25 May 2013 |
| Predecessor2: | Haji Mohammad Habib ur Rehman |
| Successor2: | Khan Baig |
Aftab Sultan (born 1950 in the Arain family) is the former chairman of Pakistan's National Accountability Bureau. He succeeded Javed Iqbal on 21 July 2022.[1]
Sultan is a law graduate from Punjab University Law College and has a postgraduate and master's degree from the University of Cambridge and the University of Edinburgh respectively.[2] He joined the Police Service of Pakistan as an assistant superintendent of police in 1977 and was promoted to the office of superintendent of police in 1983. He was also Inspector-general of police of the Punjab Police from April 2013 to May 2013. [3]
In 2010, during his tenure at the Intelligence Bureau (IB), he spearheaded a 5,000-page-long report on a case involving a multi-billion rupee Bank of Punjab loan scam.[2] [4] He became director-general of IB in June 2013 and held the post until April 2018.[2] [5]