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Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan (1972–1973); Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (1972–1973); Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly of Pakistan (1965–1969); Member of the National Assembly of Pakistan (1962–1969)."},{"q":"Where did Fazal Elahi Chaudhry study?","a":"Fazal Elahi Chaudhry was educated at Faculty of Law, Aligarh Muslim University, University of the Punjab."}],"related":[{"name":"Muhammad Mian Soomro","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/muhammad-mian-soomro"},{"name":"Pervez Musharraf","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/pervez-musharraf"},{"name":"Rafiq Tarar","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/rafiq-tarar"},{"name":"Zulfikar Ali Bhutto","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/zulfikar-ali-bhutto"},{"name":"Asif Ali Zardari","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/asif-ali-zardari"},{"name":"Iskander Mirza","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/iskander-mirza"},{"name":"Malik Meraj Khalid","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/malik-meraj-khalid"},{"name":"Raja Pervez Ashraf","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/raja-pervez-ashraf"},{"name":"Yousaf Raza Gillani","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/yousaf-raza-gillani"},{"name":"Ghulam Mustafa Jatoi","url":"https://diginpl.com/people/ghulam-mustafa-jatoi"}],"places_in":[],"nearby":[],"image":{"url":"https://diginpl.com/kb-img/fazal-elahi-chaudhry-c0ecd4bcde.jpg","width":281,"height":352,"license":"Public domain","credit":"Unknown author Unknown author","page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fazal_E_Ch.jpg"},"sources":[{"label":"Wikipedia (English): Fazal Elahi Chaudhry","url":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fazal_Elahi_Chaudhry","license":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/"},{"label":"Wikidata item Q888063","url":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q888063","license":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},{"label":"Image: Fazal E Ch.jpg by Unknown author Unknown author (Public domain)","url":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fazal_E_Ch.jpg","license":null}],"license":{"text":"CC BY-SA 4.0","url":"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/","facts":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/"},"attribution":"Text from the Wikipedia article Fazal Elahi Chaudhry, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0. 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