Definition of "vakil" [vakil]

• A representative, especially of a political figure; an official or ambassador. (noun)

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• "The most important proviso in the Islamic nikah is the offer from the groom and the acceptance from the bride or her appointed 'vakil' and two witnesses to this contract."
• "The official news from British India, through the vakil, was that Calcutta deplored the untimely death of Wazir Jawaheer and trusted that his successor would have better luck — that was the sense of it, along with a pious hope that the Punjab would now settle down to a period of tranquillity under Maharaja Dalip, the only ruler whom the British power was prepared to recognise."
• "The official news from British India, through the vakil, was that Calcutta deplored the untimely death of Wazir Jawaheer and trusted that his successor would have better luck - that was the sense of it, along with a pious hope that the Punjab would now settle down to a period of tranquillity under Maharaja Dalip, the only ruler whom the British power was prepared to recognise."