| 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]
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.
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]