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Should the national anthem be rewritten in the Urdu language? Would that have a positive impact on the society? Would people accept that? It is the people of Pakistan who have to decide if the issue is insignificant or an imperative one. This is a dilemma that entails extensive discourse to discover the solution to the problem. Read more: Gautam Gambhir jumps in on the national anthem debate! Hence in this context should the leaders be blamed for the dilemmas Pakistan is confronting today? A recent video of the oath taking day has been surfacing on social media, where elected members of the National Assembly were asked to sing the Qaumi Tarana and several of them couldn’t even remember it. Maybe our wise patriotic adults could, but how many of the younger lot understands the essence of their Qaumi Tarana? How can one decipher and internalize those values if the national anthem is written in a ‘foreign language’? A language hardly anyone understands in Pakistan?Īlthough nearly half of the Urdu vocabulary is from Persian (the remainder being from Hindi), and a third of it is Arabic loanwords (that typically came via Persian), yet hardly anyone would still be able to grasp the meaning of the anthem. The national anthem encompasses the values a country stands for. How many years in school have we religiously sung the anthem? Yet very few would know what it actually means. Let’s talk about what the values the national anthem discuses they are simple and otherwise known to all of us: brotherhood, unity and faith. Read more: Ali Zafar composes PSL anthem for third consecutive year

It was created by the use of twenty-one musical instruments and thirty-eight different tones. Chagla and penned by Hafez Jullundhri, is three stanzas long, with no repetition of lines anywhere and takes about 80 seconds to sing. How can one relate to its country without knowing what it stands for? How many of us know the meaning of our Qaumi Tarana? How can we connect to it if we don’t know what it stands for? The language barrier has obstructed the people to connect with the soul of the writer who had penned down his aspirations for the newly born country named Pakistan. Singers of the anthem were: Ahmad Rushdi, Shamim Bano, Kokab Jehan, Rasheeda Begum, Najam Ara, Naseema Shaheen, Zwar Hussain, Akhtar Abbas, Ghulam Dastgir, Anwar Zaheer and Akhtar Wassi.The understandability of national anthem in a ‘foreign language’ has significantly reduced in the present age.

Pāk sarzamīn kā nizām Qūwat-e-ukhūwat-e-`awām Qaum, mulk, sultanat Pā-inda tābinda bād! Shād bād manzil-e-murād Pāk sarzamīn shād bād Kishwar-e-hasīn shād bād Tū nishān-e-`azm-e-`alīshān Arz-e-Pākistān! Markaz-e-yaqīn shād bādīlessed be the sacred land Happy be the bounteous realm Symbol of high resolve Land of Pakistan! Blessed be thou, house of faith The national anthem of Pakistan was written some time later by the Urdu poet Abu-Al-Asar Hafeez Jullundhri. The flag itself had only been approved by the Constituent Assembly of Pakistan three days earlier. When the flag was hoisted at the independence ceremony it was accompanied by the song, " Pakistan Zindabad, Azadi Paendabad". At independence, on August 14, 1947, Pakistan did not have a national anthem. The Qaumī Tarāna ( Urdu: قومی ترانہ‎‎) is the national anthem of Pakistan. قومی ترانہ‎ English: National Anthem of Pakistan