He was awarded the President of PakistanвЂ™s gold medal for his services to Urdu literature.ДЄfter reading ZakintoshвЂ™s post on Prof. Azad was a noted authority on the works of Dr. Some time after writing the national anthem, he migrated to India, where from 1977 to 1980 he was a Professor of Urdu and head of Urdu department at the Unversity of Jammu. The anthem was used for 18 months, until it was replaced (after Mr. Mr.Г‚ Jinnah asked him to write a new national anthem for Pakistan. At the time of partition in 1947, he was a journalist and a poet living in Lahore. Jagan Nath Azad was born in 1918 in Isa Khel in the Punjab (later of Atta Ullah Khan Eesakhelvi fame), he studied at Gordon College in Rawalpindi, and the University of the Punjab in Lahore. Roshan haГѓВ© kehkashaaГѓВ± se kaheeГѓВ± aaj tayree khaak Zarray teray haГѓВ©ГѓВ± aaj sitaaroГѓВ± se taabnaak I hope you are too.ДЇirst, the basics: Jagannath Azad (1918-2004) was an Urdu poet, a Punjabi Hindu, and a scholar of IqbalвЂ™s poetry who, on the direct invitation of Mohammad Ali Jinnah, wrote PakistanвЂ™s first national anthem, which remained PakistanвЂ™s official anthem for its first year-and-half and whose first lines were as follows: I am ashamed that until recently I did not know who Jagan Nath Azad was, or what he did.

As I had mentioned in the post, I would not have done so had it not been for a wonderful post by Zakintosh on his blog. I am very glad that some of our readers did recognize Prof.

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