Dr. Tariq Fazal Chaudhary son of Chaudhary Fazal Dad was born in Islamabad on 6th July 1969. His ancestors were an old settler of present day capital, Islamabad, for the last many generations. He belongs to village Sihana, now part of Chak Shahzad.
Early life and Education
Dr. Tariq completed his early education up to matric from F G Model School F-8/3, Islamabad, and intermediate in pre-medical from F G Sir Syed College, Mall Road, Rawalpindi. He joined Rawalpindi Medical College and studied there from 1988 to 1993. He did his house job in RGH hospital and worked as a house officer with renowned surgeon, Dr. Musaddiq Khan. He managed his own private hospital in Satellite Town, Rawalpindi for three years and afterwards decided to appear in the CSS exam. Although he passed CSS exam in 1996, but he opted not to pursue his career as a civil servant.
Dr. Tariq has been an avid player of football and was part of Rawalpindi Medical College football team. He is also fond of hunting and likes to hunt partridges and ducks and for that purpose he is also keeping pointer dogs.
Political Background:
His family shares the ideology of Muslim League for the last three generations, from the time of his grand father Haji Sikandar. Therefore he took part in the general elections held in October 2002, on the ticket of PMLn but defeated by Senator Nayyar Hussain Bokhari advocate of PPPP.
In 2004 he got elected president of PMLN, federal capital, Islamabad. He also became the member of central working committee (CWC) as well as central parliamentary board of PMLN. In 2005 he helped PMLN to establish its Central Head office at his residence in F-8, Islamabad. He had the honour to host all the ARD and APC meetings in Islamabad during the last two years.
He took an active part in the movement for the restoration of judiciary. In 2008 general elections PMLN decided to award NA ticket from NA-49, Islamabad. He is the first ever Member of Parliament in his family. He faced a very tough time during the last days of General Pervaiz Musharaf but stood firm on his grounds.
In an exclusive interview with Pakistani Leaders Online he shared his vision. When asked what is the paramount problem of Pakistan? he was sure enough to say “Education”. Unless literacy rate is improved by spending maximum available national resources he will not be able to solve the major problems of Pakistan. He rates Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, President of Iran, very high and considers him as a very strong leader among the contemporary leadership of the world. Dr. Mahatir Muhammad of Malaysia was also his favouite leader.
He thinks late Muhammad Khan Junejo was one of the best leaders which Pakistan got after Quaid e Azam. He idolizes the work of Abdul Sattar Edhi and his wife. Dr. Tariq daily reads a variety of newspapers and magazines including newsweek and likes to read columns of Irfan Siddiqui and Shafqat Mahmood. He is quite fond of music and likes the old songs of Mehdi Hassan and Lata Mangeshkar etc. Business is his current source of income and out of his busy schedule he tries to spare some time to play golf. Tiger wood is his favourite golf player. Dr. Tariq has travelled extensively to Europe and Gulf.
