Qaumi Tarana
قومى ترانہ | |
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transcription | Qaumi Tarana |
Title in German | National anthem |
country | Pakistan |
Usage period | 1954 - today |
text | Abul Asar Hafeez Jullundhri |
melody | Ahmed G. Chagla |
Sheet of music | GIF |
Audio files | Vowel (MP3; 1.1 MB), instrumental (MP3; 1.3 MB), MIDI (MP3; 1.3 MB) |
Qaumi Tarana ( Urdu قومى ترانہ "National Anthem") is the national anthem of Pakistan . The music was composed by Ahmed G. Chagla (1902–1953) and the text was written by Abul Asar Hafeez Jullundhri . It was introduced as the national anthem in 1954.
The text is written in an upscale, poetic form of language, an extremely strongly Persianized Urdu register , and thus hardly understandable for Urdu speakers without a good knowledge of Persian. Only one word, kā in the first line of the second stanza, is exclusively Urdu and not Persianism. For Persian speakers, however, the text is understandable.
Urdu | Transliteration | German |
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پاک سرزمین شاد باد |
Pak Sarzamin shad Bād |
Blessed be you, purest earth, |