Download Pakistani National Anthem Mp3

"Qaum Tarnh" (Urdu: , .mw-parser-output .IPA-label-small{font-size:85%}.mw-parser-output .references .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .infobox .IPA-label-small,.mw-parser-output .navbox .IPA-label-small{font-size:100%}pronounced [qmi tan]; lit. "National Anthem"), also known as "Pk Sarzamn" ( , pronounced [pk szmin]; "Thy Sacred Land"), is the national anthem of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan and formerly the Dominion of Pakistan. It was written in Urdu by Hafeez Jalandhari in 1952 and the music was composed by Ahmad G. Chagla in 1949, preceding the lyrics. It was broadcast publicly for the first time on Radio Pakistan on 13 August 1954, sung by Jalandhari himself and officially adopted on 16 August 1954 by the Interior Ministry of the Government of Pakistan.

In early 1948, A. R. Ghani, a Muslim from South Africa's Transvaal, offered two prizes of five thousand rupees each for the poet and composer of a new national anthem for the newly independent state of Pakistan. The prizes were announced through a government press advertisement published in June 1948. In December 1948, the Government of Pakistan established the National Anthem Committee (NAC) with the task of coming up with the composition and lyrics for the official national anthem of Pakistan. The NAC was initially chaired by the Information Secretary, Sheikh Muhammad Ikram, and its members included several politicians, poets and musicians, including Abdur Rab Nishtar, Ahmad G. Chagla and Hafeez Jullundhri.[citation needed] The NAC encountered early difficulties in finding suitable music and lyrics.

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When President Sukarno of Indonesia became the first foreign head of state to visit Pakistan on 30 January 1950, there was no Pakistani national anthem to be played. In 1950, the impending state visit of the Shah of Iran added urgency to the matter and resulted in the government of Pakistan asking the NAC to submit a state anthem without further delay. The NAC chairman, then Federal Minister for Education, Fazlur Rahman, asked several poets and composers to write lyrics but none of the submitted works were deemed suitable. The NAC also examined several different tunes and eventually selected the one presented by Ahmed G. Chagla and submitted it for formal approval.[3] On 21 August 1950, the Government of Pakistan adopted Chagla's tune for the national anthem.[4]

The anthem, without lyrics, was performed for the first time for a foreign head of state on the state visit of the Shah of Iran to Pakistan in Karachi on 1 March 1950 by a Pakistan Navy band.[citation needed]

It was later played for Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan during his official visit to the United States on 3 May 1950. It was played before the NAC on 10 August 1950.[5] Official recognition to the national anthem, however, was not given until August 1954.[5] The NAC distributed records of the composed tune amongst prominent poets, who responded by writing and submitting several hundred songs for evaluation by the NAC. Eventually, the lyrics written by Hafeez Jullundhri were approved and the new national anthem was broadcast publicly for the first time on Radio Pakistan on 13 August 1954, sung by Hafeez Jullundhri himself. Official approval was announced by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on 16 August 1954. The composer, Ahmed G. Chagla, died in 1953, before the new national anthem was officially adopted. In 1955, there was a performance of the national anthem involving 11 major singers of Pakistan, including Ahmad Rushdi, Kaukab Jahan, Rasheeda Begum, Najam Ara, Naseema Shaheen, Zawar Hussain, Akhtar Abbas, Ghulam Dastagir, Anwar Zaheer and Akhtar Wasi Ali.[6][7][8]

The lyrics which are in classical High-Urdu is written by the Pakistani Urdu-language poet Hafeez Jalandhari in 1952. Each word in the anthem was carefully picked to make sure it was a valid Perso-Arabic word (to avoid Hindostani words) and it cohered with the tune of the anthem. Most words of the anthem have commonality with the Persian language, hence rendering them mutually intelligible in both Urdu and Persian scripts. No verse in the three stanza lyrics is repeated.[1] The lyrics have heavy Persian poetic vocabulary,[15] and only use one exclusively native word, "k".[16]

I came across a request from another poster on this sub-reddit from three years ago for tabs to the national anthem of Pakistan. I can't find tabs for it anywhere on the internet despite the fact that its quite an interesting tune.

The Anthem is evocative in spirit, extolling Pakistan as the centre of faith and freedom, a land of beauty and strength drawn from the people and the country. The words touch upon the various facets of national life, with an invocation for integrity of Pakistan.

THE national anthem of Pakistan is an exquisitely composed musical arrangement, and this has generally been acknowledged internationally. After going through the archival documents related to the national anthem, it becomes increasingly apparent that any contemporary controversies that existed at the time were with respect to the language and lyrics that were eventually used, never with respect to its musical composition.

The anthem committee, under the Chairmanship of Sardar Abdur Rab Nishtar, had among its members Abdus Sattar Pirzada, Chaudhry Nazir Ahmed, Rajkumar Chakravarty, Abul Asar Hafeez Jallundhri, A.D. Azhar, Z.A. Bokhari, Jasimuddin and S.M. Ikram.

The committee, meanwhile, came under pressure. A foreign head of state was to visit Pakistan soon, and the need to unfurl the national anthem became critical. Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla, a member of the tunes sub-committee, was requested to compose the national anthem in consultation with Pirzada, who at the time was the minister for food and agriculture. Chagla was assisted in his endeavours by the Navy Brass Band.

The melody selected for our national anthem possesses all the attributes which such a work would normally be required to display. The composer ensured that all the desired characteristics of an anthem were embedded in his composition.

The national anthem score was originally written for a brass band, but it is worth noting that all the instruments used in the musical rendering, except the drums, were primarily wind instruments. In order to attain the desired musical effect, Chagla designed an extensive and detailed musical arrangement. The parts every musical instrument was to play in the new composite national anthem were clearly written and notated. Each notation sheet was individually signed by Chagla, the composer. A copy of this original score is available in the state archives. One wonders if the original manuscript of the score is also preserved in the National Archives.

Looking carefully at the notation sheets, it is apparent that only one person has written all the sheets for each instrument. One would do well to remember that minute care needs to be taken when writing notation sheets for each instrument because they need to be expressed in the internationally accepted transpositions for every instrument.

Our national anthem is written in the B-flat key, which is also a two-flat scale. The choice of this key signature was appropriate because the composer was aware that it needed to be sung by a choir, which would consist of both male and female voices. The B-flat scale (in desi terminology, the panchwan kala) is a note (sur) equally suitable for both male and female voices.

The third significant feature of the anthem is that the parts written for brass instruments, including drums, make it both militaristic and invigorating. Though it is designed to be played in a brass band ensemble, it can easily be transposed to a larger symphony orchestra.

After the approval of the musical score, it took the national anthem committee almost four years of deliberation to finalise the words. The most significant aspect of for the lyrics of an anthem is that they should convey the unique characteristics of the relevant country it represents, yet it needs to have the quality of being ageless. It should be a prayer for the wellbeing of the people and the country. It should be uplifting. The biggest challenge for poets who were tasked to write the lyrics was to find words both suitable and meaningful which would fit well with the melodic and rhythmic structure of the approved tune.

The lyricist of the first national anthem was the poet Jagannath Azad, son of the renowned poet Tilok Chand Mahroom (who won accolades for his rendering of naat at mushairas). Born in Isa Khel (Mianwali), Jagannath Azad was working in Lahore when Mr. Jinnah commissioned him for this task just three days before Independence. He complied, Jinnah approved the lyrics, and the anthem went on air on Radio Pakistan Karachi (then the capital of Pakistan) the day Pakistan was born. Some Pakistanis still remember hearing it. Those who came after 1948 have no memory of it.

Quaid-e-Azam being the visionary that he was knew an anthem would also be needed, not only to be used in official capacity but inspire patriotism in the nation. Since he was secular-minded, enlightened, and although very patriotic but not in the least petty Jinnah commissioned a Hindu, Lahore-based writer Jagannath Azad three days before independence to write a national anthem for Pakistan. Jagannath submitted these lyrics:

The anthem commissioned by Jinnah was just one of his legacies that his successors swept aside, along with the principles he stressed in his address to the Constituent Assembly on Aug 11, 1947 -- meant to be his political will and testament according to his official biographer Hector Bolitho (Jinnah: Creator of Pakistan, John Murray, London, 1954).

For centuries a national anthem has been a symbolic representation of a nation with its deep roots to the culture, people and language. For an athlete, hearing the national anthem played can be a proud moment. 2351a5e196