<Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <P> The Qaumi Taranah (Urdu: قومی ترانہ ‬ ‎, Qaumī Tarānah pronounced (ˈqɔː. mi ˈt̪ə. rɑː. nɑ), lit . "National Anthem"), also known as Pāk Sarzamīn (Urdu: پاک سرزمین ‬ ‎, pronounced (ˈpɑːk ˈsər. zə. miːn), lit . "The Sacred Land"), is the national anthem of Pakistan . Its music was composed by Ahmad G. Chagla in 1949, preceding the lyrics, which were written by Hafeez Jullundhri in 1952 . It was officially adopted as Pakistan's national anthem in August 1954 and was recorded in the same year by eleven major singers of Pakistan including Ahmad Rushdi, Kaukab Jahan, Rasheeda Begum, Najam Ara, Naseema Shaheen, Zawar Hussain, Akhtar Abbas, Ghulam Dastagir, Anwar Zaheer and Akhtar Wasi Ali . </P> <P> In early 1948, A.R. 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 . The prizes were announced through a government press advertisement published in June 1948 . 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 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. Chagla and Hafeez Jullundhri . The NAC encountered early difficulties in finding suitable music and lyrics . </P> <P> 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 . 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 . 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 . The NAC also examined several different tunes and eventually selected the one presented by Ahmed G. Chagla and submitted it for formal approval . On 21 August 1949, the Government of Pakistan adopted Chagla's tune for the national anthem . </P>

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