Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry hails from a political family of Azad Jammu and Kashmir. Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry is the son of Kashmiri

Kashmiri people

The Kashmiri people are a Dardic linguistic group living in Kashmir Valley in Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir and parts of the Pakistani territory of Azad Kashmir who speak the Kashmiri language...

 leader Chaudhry Noor Hussain and belongs to a Thathaal

Thathaal

Thathal , also referred to as Thothal and Thathiyal , is a Rajput/Jatt clan of the area between Salt Range, Gujrat, Rawalpindi, Sialkot, Narowal district, Kharian Pubbi and Azad Jammu and Kashmir in Pakistan. Thathals are also found in Hoshiarpur and Himachal Pradesh, India...

 Jat family. Barrister Sultan Mehmood Chaudhry was born in Mirpur and was educated in the United Kingdom

United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...

 gaining a Baret in Law from London.

The family have a long history of playing an active role in trying to bring the Kashmir

Kashmir

Kashmir is the northwestern region of the Indian subcontinent. Until the mid-19th century, the term Kashmir geographically denoted only the valley between the Great Himalayas and the Pir Panjal mountain range...

 issue in to the limelight by continuously raising the issue on an international level in countries such as the United Kingdom, United States

United States

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and beyond. Barrister Sultan Mahmood Chaudhry made history in 1996 by becoming the first Prime Minister of Azad Jammu and Kashmir hailing from the Mirpur region.