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| type = Weekly<br />
| format = Broadsheet<br />
| owners = Sheikh Ghulam Muhammad<br />
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| editor = Mirza Heyrat Dehlavi <br> [[Insha Allah Khan]] <br> [[Abul Kalam Azad|Abu Kalam Azad]] <br> Abdullah Minhas <br> Shujaullah<br />
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| founded = [[1895]]<br />
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| headquarters = [[Amritsar]], [[British Raj]]<br />
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'''The Vakil''' ({{langx|ur|{{nastaliq|وکیل}}}}) was an Urdu language newspaper published from [[Amritsar]] during the [[British Raj]].<ref>{{Cite web|title=Khan Ata & the Historic Newspaper, The Vakil Amritsar - The Kashmir Monitor|url=https://www.thekashmirmonitor.net/khan-ata-historic-newspaper-vakil-amritsar/|access-date=2021-11-04|language=en-US}}</ref> Initially it was bi-weekly newspaper but later it became three days. This newspaper was started by [[Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi]]'s father Khan Ata Muhammad Khan in 1895 and published until about July 28, 1931.<ref name="Nasim Yousaf page 3">Nasim Yousaf, ''Pakistan's Freedom & Allama Mashriqi; Statements, Letters, Chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (Movement), Period: Mashriqi's Birth to 1947'', page 3.</ref><br />
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The first editor of the newspaper was Mirza Hairat Dehlavi but separated after editing two pamphlets. In October of the same year, [[Insha Allah Khan]] became the editor.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Aḥmad|first=G̲h̲ulām|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=wbwPAQAAMAAJ|title=Tadhkirah: English Translation of the Dreams, Visions and Verbal Revelations Vouchsafed to the Promised Messiah on Whom be Peace by Muhammad Zafrullah Khan|date=1976|publisher=Saffron Books|pages=178|language=en}}</ref> [[Abul Kalam Azad]] was associated with Vakil as one of the editor for five years, from 1903 to 1908.<ref>{{Cite web|last=Yousaf|first=Nasim|date=2018-02-22|title=Khan Ata Mohammad Mentored Abul Kalam Azad In His Early Days Of Activism|url=https://thecompanion.in/khan-ata-mohammad-mentored-abul-kalam-azad-early-days-activism|access-date=2021-11-04|website=The Companion|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last=Minault|first=Gail|title=The Khilafat Movement Religious Symbolism And Political Mobilization In India|date=2010|publisher=[[Columbia University Press]]|others=Inc Recorded Books|isbn=978-0-231-51539-9|location=[[New York City|New York]]|pages=39|oclc=945080017}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=Qaiyoom|first=Nishat|title=Maulana Azad's Journalistic Crusade Against Colonialism|date=2012|url=https://www.jstor.org/stable/44156263|journal=Proceedings of the Indian History Congress|volume=73|pages=679, 680|jstor=44156263|issn=2249-1937}}</ref><br />
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== References ==<br />
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== Further reading ==<br />
* {{Cite book|last=Yousaf|first=Nasim|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=J0RQrgEACAAJ|title=Men Like Allama Mashriqi Are Born Once in Centuries: A Collection of Articles|date=2015-03-19|publisher=AMZ Publications|isbn=978-0-9826110-4-3|language=en}}<br />
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