Outside Cricket
After leaving Islamia College with a Master's degree in Economic, Fazal joined the Pakistan Services as an inspector of Police in 1947 rising to Deputy Superintendent in 1952 and Deputy Inspector General in 1976.
Fazal suffered a fatal heart attack at his Lahore residence on 30 May 2005. His friend and former team-mate Hanif Mohammad described Fazal as a "great human being" and "the doyen of Pakistan bowlers in the country's formative years".
Fazal married the daughter of Mohammad Saeed, Pakistani cricket's first captain.
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