Chakri Vakilan

Chakri Vakilan
Village
Country	Pakistan
Province	Punjab (Pakistan)
District	Rawalpindi
Time zone	UTC+5 (PST)

Chakri Vakilan (Urdu:چڪرى وكيلاں ) is a village in Gujar Khan Tehsil, Rawalpindi District, Pakistan. The village is about 6 miles from Gujar Khan on the road from Gujar Khan to Daultala.

Gulyana, Cheena, Mardyal, Patt, and Dhoke Khokar are a few villages located in the neighbourhood of Chakri Vakilan. The local time zone for the village is "Asia/Karachi" with a UTC offset of 5 hours.

Etymology

The name Chakri comes from chakr or panchiat meaning 'circle sitting' . Vakilan comes from Vakil meaning a 'man who helps someone in arguing his case'. So combination of both words Chakri Vakilan would mean a panchiat, or jury, of Lords . This village is also famous for the shrine of a Sufi saint Baba Sahib Subhan.
Bhatti Rajpoot, Gakhar Rajpoot, Kalyal Rajpoot are the main castes living in the village.

Village Sports

The village dwellers take particular interest in sports. Cricket, volleyball (shoot ball), football, hockey and tent pegging are particularly followed.

Cricket: The village has produced some fine players in the game. Raja Abdul Razzaq Abbas introduced cricket in village in 1970. The game has since evolved and Waheed Akmal, Nasir Subhani, Raja Asim zia Kiyani, Raja Aamir zia Kiyani (famous as " the Zia brothers), Ihsan-ul-Haq, Raja Zulfiqar Ali ( known as Zulaf), Raja Imran Hussain, Raja Wajid Ali and Raja Nazam Faraz were arguably the finest players of the local village level cricket.

Football: There have been some notable performances in football under the captaincy of Abdullah, known by the nick name of "TT". The village has benefited from its Dutch link through some families living in the Netherlands. Junaid Ahmed Raja, a Dutch national from the Kalyal clan has raised the village profile in the sport.