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{{Infobox officeholder
| name =Chaudhary Muhammad Tufail
| honorific-suffix =
|image =
| office = Member of the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]]
| term_start = 29 September 2016
|term_end = 31 May 2018
|constituency = [[Constituency NA-162|NA-162 (Sahiwal-III)]]
|nationality = Pakistani
|party = [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]]
|relatives= [[Chaudhry Muhammad Hanif]] (brother)<ref name="dawn/21april2013" /> <br> [[Chaudhry Muhammad Arshad Jutt]] (brother)<ref name="dawn/21april2013">{{cite news |last1=Newspaper |first1=the |title=Three brothers get PML-N tickets in Chichawatni |url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1024728 |accessdate=25 July 2018 |work=DAWN.COM |date=21 April 2013}}</ref>
}}

'''Chaudhary Muhammad Tufail''' ({{Lang-ur|{{Nastaliq|چوہدری محمد طفیل}}}}) is a Pakistani politician who had been a member of the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]], from September 2016 to May 2018.

==Political career==
He has served as Tehsil Nazim of Chichawatni.<ref>{{cite news|title=NA-162 by-poll: PML-N picks another Jutt from Chichawatni|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1280288|accessdate=7 April 2017|work=DAWN.COM|date=27 August 2016|language=en|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170408082040/https://www.dawn.com/news/1280288|archivedate=8 April 2017}}</ref>

He was elected to the [[National Assembly of Pakistan]] as a candidate of [[Pakistan Muslim League (N)]] (PML-N) from [[Constituency NA-162|Constituency NA-162 (Sahiwal-III)]] in by elections held in September 2016.<ref>{{cite news|title=Nawaz assures MP of funds for Sahiwal|url=http://nation.com.pk/national/31-Dec-2016/nawaz-assures-mp-of-funds-for-sahiwal|accessdate=6 March 2017|work=The Nation|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306210635/http://nation.com.pk/national/31-Dec-2016/nawaz-assures-mp-of-funds-for-sahiwal|archivedate=6 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=Govt's untiring efforts eliminating core issues faced by nation: PM|url=http://nation.com.pk/islamabad/30-Dec-2016/govt-s-untiring-efforts-eliminating-core-issues-faced-by-nation-pm|accessdate=6 March 2017|work=The Nation|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306210323/http://nation.com.pk/islamabad/30-Dec-2016/govt-s-untiring-efforts-eliminating-core-issues-faced-by-nation-pm|archivedate=6 March 2017}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|title=N, PPP, PTI award tickets for by-poll to NA-162|url=http://nation.com.pk/national/27-Aug-2016/n-ppp-pti-award-tickets-for-by-poll-to-na-162|accessdate=6 March 2017|work=The Nation|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306210637/http://nation.com.pk/national/27-Aug-2016/n-ppp-pti-award-tickets-for-by-poll-to-na-162|archivedate=6 March 2017}}</ref> He received 76,580 votes and defeated Rai Murtaza Iqbal, a candidate of [[Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf]] (PTI).<ref>{{cite news|title=PML-N wins NA-162 by-election|url=http://nation.com.pk/national/20-Sep-2016/pml-n-wins-na-162-by-election|accessdate=6 March 2017|work=The Nation|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306210148/http://nation.com.pk/national/20-Sep-2016/pml-n-wins-na-162-by-election|archivedate=6 March 2017}}</ref> The seat became vacant after [[Rai Hassan Nawaz]] who won it in 2013 election, was disqualified to continue in office because of inaccurate assets declaration.<ref>{{cite news|title=PTI legislator disqualified for inaccurate asset declaration - The Express Tribune|url=https://tribune.com.pk/story/885139/pti-legislator-disqualified-for-inaccurate-asset-declaration/|accessdate=7 April 2017|work=The Express Tribune|date=12 May 2015|url-status=live|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20170407145949/https://tribune.com.pk/story/885139/pti-legislator-disqualified-for-inaccurate-asset-declaration/|archivedate=7 April 2017}}</ref>

In October 2017, he was appointed as Federal Parliamentary Secretary for privatisation.<ref>{{cite news|last1=Junaidi|first1=Ikram|title=Three NA panel heads, two state ministers and 11 parliamentary secretaries appointed|url=https://www.dawn.com/news/1363211|accessdate=9 November 2017|work=DAWN.COM|date=12 October 2017}}</ref>

==References==
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->Ken Gallager at 14:06, 27 October 2021