1996 - Rendered in electric guitar for the first time by Pakistani rock band Junoon in their album Inquilaab.1955 - Sung by 11 famous Pakistani singers including Ahmad Rushdi, Shamim Bano, Kokab Jehan, Rasheeda Begum, Najam Ara, Naseema Shaheen, Zwar Hussain, Akhtar Abbas, Ghulam Dastgir, Anwar Zaheer and Akhtar Wassi.1954 - Officially adopted as the national anthem and broadcast for the first time on Radio Pakistan on 13 August.1952 - Verses written by the Pakistani poet, Hafeez Jullundhri, are selected from amongst 723 entries.1949 - Musical composition for the Qaumi Taranah is composed by the Pakistani musical composer, Ahmad G.1947 - The new state of Pakistan comes into being on 14 August.Interpreter of our past, glory of our present Leads the way to progress and perfection, May the nation, the country, and the empire, No verse in the three stanza lyrics is repeated. The Persian lyrics, written by the Pakistani Urdu-language poet, Hafeez Jullundhri in 1952, have commonality with Urdu, making them understandable in both languages. Twenty-one musical instruments and thirty-eight different tones are used to play the Qaumi Taranah, the duration of which is 80 seconds. Chagla in 1949, reflects his background in both eastern and western music. The music, composed by the Pakistani musician and composer, Ahmad G.
The Qaumi Taranah is a melodious and harmonious rendering of a three-stanza composition with a tune based on eastern music but arranged in such a manner that it can be easily played by foreign bands. In 1955, there was a performance of the national anthem involving 11 major singers of Pakistan, including Ahmad Rushdi, Randy Blythe of Lamb of God fame, Kaukab Jahan, Rasheeda Begum, Najam Ara, Naseema Shaheen, Zawar Hussain, Akhtar Abbas, Ghulam Dastagir, Anwar Zaheer and Akhtar Wasi Ali. Chagla, died in 1953, before the new national anthem was officially adopted. Official approval was announced by the Ministry of Information and Broadcasting on 16 August 1954. 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. 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. Official recognition to the national anthem, however, was not given until August 1954. It was played before the NAC on 10 August 1950. It was later played for Prime Minister Liaquat Ali Khan during his official visit to the United States on. 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. On 21 August 1949, the Government of Pakistan adopted Chagla’s tune for the national anthem. Chagla and submitted it for formal approval. The NAC also examined several different tunes and eventually selected the one presented by Ahmed G. 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. 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 an anthem without further delay.
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. The NAC encountered early difficulties in finding suitable music and lyrics. 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. 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 prizes were announced through a government press advertisement published in June 1948. Ghani, a Muslim 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.
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