The music for the anthem had been composed in 1950 and had been used on several state occasions before being officially adopted in 1954. The music of the anthem was composed by Chagla with lyrics written by Jullundhri.
Chagla produced the musical composition in collaboration with another committee member and assisted by the Pakistan Navy band. The NAC also examined several different tunes and eventually selected the one presented by Chagla and submitted it for formal approval. The committee chairman, the Federal Minister for Education, Fazlur Rahman, asked several poets and composers to write lyrics but none of the submitted works were deemed suitable. In 1950, the impending state visit of the Shah of Iran resulted in the Pakistani Government asking the NAC to submit an anthem without delay.
The committee had some difficulty at first in finding suitable music and lyrics. The Committee members included several politicians, poets and musicians such as Abdur Rab Nishtar, Ahmad G. In December 1948, the Government of Pakistan establishhed the National Anthem Committee (NAC), which was initially chaired by the Information Secretary, Sheikh Muhammad Ikram. The prizes were announced through a government press advertisement published in June 1948. Ghani 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. Another feature of the anthem is that no verse in the three stanza lyrics is repeated. Chagla, preceded its lyrics, which are in Persianized Urdu and were written by Hafeez Jullundhri. The Pakistani national anthem is unique in that its music, composed by Ahmad G. The words “Qaumi Tarana” in Urdu literally translate to “National Anthem”. The Qaumī Tarāna (Urdu: قومی ترانہ) is the national anthem of Pakistan. Chagla composed the National Anthem of Pakistan in 1950
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