<P> The flag is referred to in the national anthem as the Flag of the Crescent and Star . It is flown on several important days of the year including Republic Day, Independence Day and Defence Day . It is often hoisted every morning at schools, offices and government buildings to the sound of the national anthem and lowered again before sunset . A notable flag raising and lowering ceremony is carried out each day with great pomp and enthusiasm at the Wagah Border attended by hundreds of spectators . A designer named Amiruddin Kidwai studied the League's flag, as he tried to design a flag for a new, independent nation . Finally he arrived at a design, and he presented it to the leadership of the Muslim League who subsequently adopted his design as the flag of the Dominion of Pakistan on 11 August, 1947 . The government of Pakistan has pronounced rules about the flying of the flag . It is to be displayed at full mast on 23 March of each year, marking the adoption of the Lahore Resolution in 1940's and the Declaration of the Republic of Pakistan in 1956, and on 14 August in celebration of Independence Day, when Pakistan was carved out from British India as a home for Indian Muslims . The flag of Pakistan is also mentioned in Pakistan's own national anthem in the third verse reading "پرچمِ ستاره و ہلال رہبرِ ترقّی و کمال" ‎ which translates to "Flag with the Star and Crescent, the leader of progress and ascent". </P> <P> Before the Second World War, Muslims and Hindus lived together under the British Raj . A number of the Muslims formed the All India Muslim League . After the Second World War, when the independence of Pakistan in 1947, the flag of the Muslim League served as the basis for the flag of Pakistan . </P> <P> The green represents Islam and the majority Muslims in Pakistan and the white stripe represents religious minorities and minority religions . In the centre, the crescent and star symbolizes progress and light respectively . The flag symbolizes Pakistan's commitment to Islam and the rights of religious minorities . It is based on the original flag of the Muslim League, which itself drew inspiration from the flag of the Sultanate of Delhi, the flag of Ottoman Empire and the Flag of the Mughal Empire . </P> <P> The official design of the national flag was adopted by the Constituent Assembly together with a definition of the features and proportions . </P>

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