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[Omar1984]

 

[Coolyo]

Great Posts! PAKISTAN ZINDABAD!

 

[Watani]

Pakistan's national anthem is not in Dari. The lyrics are written in a highly Persianized form of Urdu. Every word in the entire anthem is a cognate with Persian except the word "ka" ( کا, "of" ). The anthem lasts for 1 minute and 20 seconds,[11] and uses twenty one musical instruments and thirty eight different tones.[9]
I also like Afghanistan's national anthem because they mention my tribe, Gojars, which by the way is a tribe that belongs to the Punjabi ethnic group.

If I am not mistaken than Persian and Urdu languages share some history together, right? That's why quiet some Urdu and Persian words are the same and the National Anthem sounds a lot like Persian, but I personally think Urdu is more beautiful than Persian and would have sound better if it was in Urdu. And yes we had many National Anthems in Afghanistan but I also like the recent one because all ethnics have been named in it. Do you understand Pashto by the way?

Khush aamadiid Watan Sahab.
A little correction if you wish to call it that - we tend to say our taraana is in Farsi. I know our Farsi is a lot closer to yours than to the iranians' but still we don't call it Dari.

Thank you. Yeah Dari and Farsi both are Persian dialects but if you hear Farsi then you will notice quiet some difference in pronounciation and therefore I thought it might be Dari. But at the end, both are same language.

Hoping you know Hindi / Urdu
This soulful number from the 1961 Hindi movie Kabuliwala. Based on a story written by Rabindranath Tagore about an Afghan in India. He's singing for his watan.

That's one great song, thanks for sharing! Yeah I know Urdu but haven't seen this movie yet. This Urdu song is also made in Afghanistan and reminds me of my old days back in my Afghanistan.

 

[Omar1984]

If I am not mistaken than Persian and Urdu languages share some history together, right? That's why quiet some Urdu and Persian words are the same and the National Anthem sounds a lot like Persian, but I personally think Urdu is more beautiful than Persian and would have sound better if it was in Urdu. And yes we had many National Anthems in Afghanistan but I also like the recent one because all ethnics have been named in it. Do you understand Pashto by the way?

There's many Persian words in Urdu and the Urdu spoken by our older generations was very much Persianized. If you speak fluent Farsi, you would understand most of Allama Iqbal's poetry. Allama Iqbal is known as Iqbal-e-Lahori in Iran. This Persianized form of Urdu was created during the Mughal empire.

Most Pakistanis can understand our anthem so I like it the way it is even if its more "Persian" than "Urdu" because most of our poetry is written in Urdu with lots of Persian influence.

By the way, I understand a few words of Pashto that my Pathan friends taught me. I read the translation of Afghanistan's national anthem and noticed they mentioned my tribe, Gojars, who I didnt know existed in Afghanistan. Gojars are mostly in Northern Punjab of Pakistan and in some places of Azad Kashmir...you will also find some in parts of NWFP, but most of us are from Northern Punjab of Pakistan.

 

[notsuperstitious]

By the way, I understand a few words of Pashto that my Pathan friends taught me. I read the translation of Afghanistan's national anthem and noticed they mentioned my tribe, Gojars, who I didnt know existed in Afghanistan. Gojars are mostly in Northern Punjab of Pakistan and in some places of Azad Kashmir...you will also find some in parts of NWFP, but most of us are from Northern Punjab of Pakistan.

Actually Gujjars are found in very large in numbers in India too.

Gujjar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

 

[Omar1984]

Actually Gujjars are found in very large in numbers in India too.

Gujjar - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Yea mostly in Jammu and in Indian Occupied Kashmir, also some are in India's side of Punjab...but most of India's side of Punjab is Jatt not Gojar. Pakistan's side of Punjab and Azad Kashmir has much larger Gojar population. We make up more than 20% of Pakistan's total population, we are more in number than some major ethnic groups of Pakistan like Sindhi and Baloch.

 

[jeypore]

Modern versions of Watan:

I want to add a personal note, and I guess this applies to all Indians. When the first rain comes and the smell of the dirt. That smell is so irrestible and fantastic it is very hard to forget. That can be duplicated which i just did. If you put Indian slate tiles out in your patio and whenever it rains here in America you can recreate that same smell.

 

[Watani]

@Omar
Yeah, Gojars used to be in Kandahar and Helmand decades back but don't know where they are now mainly. Possibly in Kabul and if I am not mistaken than they came to Afghanistan escaping from the British rule over former British India and remained in Kandahar mainly.

Does anyone understand what language the first song is in? Love the second song!;

 

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[Watani]

Few years back, I remember walking down the streets of Islamabad and there was this song being played all over which goes like; 'Pakistan hain tumhara, Pakistan hain humhara'. Does anyone know which song it is?

 

[Omar1984]

 

[Omar1984]

Few years back, I remember walking down the streets of Islamabad and there was this song being played all over which goes like; 'Pakistan hain tumhara, Pakistan hain humhara'. Does anyone know which song it is?

Thats this song: