Although it was approved for playing during the visit of the Shah, official recognition was not given until August 1954. The anthem without lyrics was performed for Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan and later for the National Anthem Committee on August 10, 1950. The national anthem is played during any event involving the hoisting of the flag, for example Pakistan Day (March 23) and Independence Day (August 14). Unofficially, the anthem is sometimes referred to by its first line ' PДЃk sarzamД«n shДЃd bДЃd' (Urdu: 'Blessed be the sacred land'). The lyrics allude to a 'Sacred Land' referring to Pakistan and a 'Flag of the Crescent and Star' referring to the national flag. The three stanza composition is unique in a way that no part of the anthem repeats itself. The music for the anthem had been composed in 1950 and had been used on several state occasions before being officially adopted in 1954. The music of the anthem was composed by Chagla with lyrics written by Jullundhri. Chagla produced the musical composition in collaboration with another committee member and assisted by the Pakistan Navy band. The NAC also examined several different tunes and eventually selected the one presented by Chagla and submitted it for formal approval. The committee chairman, the Federal Minister for Education, Fazlur Rahman, asked several poets and composers to write lyrics but none of the submitted works were deemed suitable. In 1950, the impending state visit of the Shah of Iran resulted in the Pakistani Government asking the NAC to submit an anthem without delay. The committee had some difficulty at first in finding suitable music and lyrics. The Committee members included several politicians, poets and musicians such as Abdur Rab Nishtar, Ahmad G. In December 1948, the Government of Pakistan establishhed the National Anthem Committee (NAC), which was initially chaired by the Information Secretary, Sheikh Muhammad Ikram. The prizes were announced through a government press advertisement published in June 1948. Ghani from Transvaal, South Africa, 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. 6 Controversial previous national anthem claim.However, Jinnah did not like this, so he wanted Pakistan to have a national anthem of its own. That is why whenever the flag of Pakistan was hoisted, slogans of вЂPakistan ZindabadвЂ™ were used. After independence, Pakistan did not have a national anthem. Muhammad Ali Jinnah had already said that the flag of the Muslim League would be the flag of the country. When a new country was formed, Pakistan had its own flag, but it also needed a national anthem. On 14 August 1947 a new country was born on the world map as Pakistan. Jinnah had entrusted Jagannath with the task of writing this national anthem because he wanted to keep the secular image of Pakistan in front of the world. Jagannath wrote this national anthem accepting the wishes of the countryвЂ™s founder and first Governor-General, Mohammad Ali Jinnah. These are the lines from the first national anthem of Pakistan, which was written by Jagannath Azad, a Hindu from Lahore. Tabak is illuminated by the stars, somewhere from Kahkashan to today your skyвЂ™.

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