After few stressful days and some intense kind of posts I wanted to lighten things up with this article. But it seems that no body wants an optimistic person like me. Alas! I could not write some thing lighter to share with you all but another grief is there to share. I am a patriot no doubt, every Pakistani is, but I differ in the sense that I still believe that we will be a developed and prosper nation soon, although signs are not visible yet. The sky of our prosperity is still heavily clouded with despair. I hope we would soon be able to overcome. Insha’Allah.
The thing to be shared is the parody or should I say destruction of our National Anthem. I saw this posted on a social network, which has thousands of members and must be reader of this text too. My point is just that we should respect our past at least if we couldn’t praise our present. National Anthem is the pride of a nation how can we be so rude with it?
The National Anthem of Pakistan, approved by the Government in August 1954, is a 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.
The Anthem is evocative in spirit, extolling Pakistan as the centre of faith and freedom, a land of beauty and strength drawn from the people and the country. Verses of the Anthem have been composed by a renowned poet of Pakistan, Abul Asar Hafeez Jalandhri; while the tune has been composed by Ahmed G. Chagla, the well known musician and composer.
The Anthem written in Urdu and Persian is a unique poetical composition, as in spite of its brevity it is a lyrical exultation for the quintessence of Pakistan its Islamic foundation, ideology, ethos, aspirations and its intrinsic strength.
But look at the modern composition of Anthem and decide your self. I am unable to call names for it.
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