Chakri Vakilan (), is a village in

Gujar Khan Tehsil Gujar Khan Tehsil (; ), headquartered at Gujar Khan, is one of the Tehsils (sub-divisions) of Rawalpindi District in the Punjab province of Pakistan. It is administratively subdivided into 36 Union Councils and according to the 1998 census has ...

Rawalpindi District Rawalpindi District (Punjabi language, Punjabi and ) is a Districts of Pakistan, district located in the northernmost part of the Punjab (Pakistan), Punjab province of Pakistan. Parts of the district form part of the Islamabad Rawalpindi metropo ...

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. The village is about from

Gujar Khan Gujar Khan ( ; ) 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 located approximately southeast of Islamabad, the capital of Pak ...

on the road to thhakra/pir phulahi. Bhatti rajpoot, Gakhar, Kalyal, Arain and Syeds are the main castes living in the village. Gulyana, Cheena, Mardyal, kanyatt laddhu, and Dhoke Khokar are other villages located in the neighbourhood of Chakri Vakilan.

Etymology

The name ''Chakri'' comes from the

Hindi Modern Standard Hindi (, ), commonly referred to as Hindi, is the Standard language, standardised variety of the Hindustani language written in the Devanagari script. It is an official language of India, official language of the Government ...

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