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Jagannath Azad was a prominent
Urdu-speaking Hindu academic who, amongst many other works, wrote the first
national anthem of Pakistan.He was born on December 5th, 1918 in the town of Isa
Khel in western Punjab, which now lies in Pakistan. In 1937, he obtained a BA
from Garden College in Rawalpindi and in 1944 went on to study for an MA in
Persian from the University of the Punjab in Lahore. Azad then started a
journalistic career, working for the Urdu monthly Adabi Dunya, published in
Lahore. By 1946, Azad was assistant editor of the Urdu daily, Jai Hind. After
Partition in 1947, he was asked by Muhammad Ali Jinnah to write a new national
anthem for Pakistan.[1][2] Azad wrote the anthem in a few days and it was
quickly approved by Jinnah. The anthem continued to be used for eighteen months
until, after Jinnah's death, the government of Pakistan decided it needed a new
anthem.
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