Chakri Vakilan ( ur, ), is a village in
Gujar Khan Tehsil Gujar may refer to:
*Gurjar, Gujjar or Gujar, an fighting group of people in Afghanistan, India and Pakistan
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* Gojari language or Gujjar, a language spoken by the Gujjar people of Afghanistan, Pakistan and India
* Gujar, Iran (disambiguation)
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,
Rawalpindi District,
Pakistan
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. The village is about from
Gujar Khan
Gujar Khan (Punjabi/ ur, گُوجر خان) is a city in Rawalpindi District, Punjab, Pakistan. It is also the headquarters of Gujar Khan Tehsil, the largest tehsil of Punjab by land area.
Gujar Khan is approximately southeast of Islamabad, t ...
on the road to
Daultala. The village contains five shrines including the
Sufi saint Baba Syed Sahib Subhan.
Kheengar Bhatti, Gakhar Rajpoot, Kalyal Bhatti Rajpoot, Arain and Syeds are the main castes living in the village.
Gulyana, Cheena, Mardyal, Patt, and Dhoke Khokar are other villages located in the neighbourhood of Chakri Vakilan.
Etymology
The name ''Chakri'' comes from the
Hindi
Hindi ( Devanāgarī: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region encompassing parts of northern, central, eastern, and western India. Hindi has been ...
or ', meaning "circle sitting".''Vakilan'' comes from ''Vakil'', meaning "a man who helps someone in arguing his case". So together the words mean "a panchiat, or jury, of Lords".
References
{{Neighbourhoods of Rawalpindi
Villages in Gujar Khan Tehsil