The Vakil () was an Urdu language newspaper published from

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during the

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. Initially it was bi-weekly newspaper but later it became three days. This newspaper was started by

Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi Inayatullah Khan Mashriqi ( ; August 1888 27 August 1963), also known by the honorary title Allama Mashriqi ( ), was a British Indian, and later, Pakistani mathematician, logician, political theorist, Islamic scholar and the founder of the Kh ...

's father Khan Ata Muhammad Khan in 1895 and published until about July 28, 1931.Nasim Yousaf, ''Pakistan's Freedom & Allama Mashriqi; Statements, Letters, Chronology of Khaksar Tehrik (Movement), Period: Mashriqi's Birth to 1947'', page 3. 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.

Abul Kalam Azad Abul Kalam Ghulam Muhiyuddin (11 November 188822 February 1958), better known as Maulana Azad and sometimes referred as Abul Kalam Azad, was an Indian politician, writer and activist of the Indian independence movement. A senior leader of t ...

was associated with Vakil as one of the editor for five years, from 1903 to 1908.

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