Allama Mashriqi’s father’s bi-weekly, Vakil

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Allama Mashriqi’s father’s bi-weekly, Vakil Khan Ata was also the owner of "Vakil", a biweekly newspaper from Amritsar, India. Khan was a poet a Its views have always been broad, wise and dignified.

Vakil (Wakeel) was owned by Khan Ata Mohammed Khan, Allama Mashriqi's father. It represented high quality journalism at a time when the Muslim press was extremely poor. The following excerpt explains the quality of this biweekly:

“Marked by sobriety and a high literary standard, this paper served as a spokesman of Muslim political thought at a time when the Muslim press was very weak. Discussing

the role of 'Vakil' Muhammad Ali wrote in the 'Comrade' dated February 17, 1912 that ‘the Vakil has represented the best type of Urdu journalism. It has exercised an intellectual tolerance and comprehension which is rare even amongst the better class of English journalism in this country.’”

Maulana Abul Kalam Azad, Abdullah Minhas, and Abdullah al-Imadi edited the paper. Source: Struggle of Independence Photograph Album 1905-1947
Publisher: The Bureau of National Reconstruction of West Pakistan, 87 Ferozepur Road, Lahore, Pakistan

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