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Pakistan Day (Urdu: یومِ پاکستان, lit. Yaum-e-Pakistan) is a national holiday in Pakistan primarily commemorating the adoption of the first Constitution of Pakistan during the transition of the Dominion of Pakistan to the Islamic Republic of Pakistan on 23 March 1956 making Pakistan the world's first Islamic republic, which remains a member state of the Commonwealth of Nations. [1]
This day is celebrated all over the world on the occasion of Allama Muhammad Iqbal's birthday. [1] Allama Iqbal was a great Urdu poet and thinker. He breathed new life into the youth of the subcontinent through his self-concept. Iqbal reminded the Muslim Ummah of its glorious past and taught them to reunite.
On 3rd June 1947, after an agreement for the Partition, the viceroy and the community leaders addressed the public on the radio. Jinnah ended his speech with Pakistan Zindabad!. Some listeners misunderstood his accented Urdu as the much informal "Pakistan's in the bag!".
Muhammad Iqbal, then president of the Muslim League in 1930 and address deliverer "Sare Jahan se Accha" (Urdu: سارے جہاں سے اچھا; Sāre Jahāṉ se Acchā), formally known as "Tarānah-e-Hindi" (Urdu: ترانۂ ہندی, "Anthem of the People of Hindustan"), is an Urdu language patriotic song for children written by poet Allama Muhammad Iqbal in the ghazal style of Urdu poetry.
Subh-e-Azadi (lit.'Dawn of Independence' or 'Morning of freedom' [4]), also spelled Subh-e-Aazadi or written as Subh e Azadi, is an Urdu language poem by a Pakistani poet, Faiz Ahmed Faiz written in 1947. [5] [6] The poem is often noted for its prose style, marxist perspectives, disappointment, anguish, and critic atmosphere.
The assent was given on it by the Governor General on 2 March 1956. This Constitution was enforced with effect from 23 March 1956. Under this Constitution, Pakistan became an Islamic Republic, hence 23 March became the country's Republic day. It was the same day in 1940 that the historic Pakistan Resolution was adopted at Minto Park, Lahore.
Although enforced in 1973, Pakistan, however, celebrates the adoption of the constitution on 23 March—when the first set was promulgated in 1956 each and every year as Republic Day. [9] Technically there are 26 amendments but 23 amendments were made in constitution and three were not passed by the parliament as the three amendments collapsed.
The etymology of the word used in Urdu, for the most part, decides how polite or refined one's speech is. For example, Urdu speakers distinguish between پانی, pānī and آب, āb, both meaning water. The former is used colloquially and has older Sanskrit origins; the latter is used formally and poetically, being of Persian origin ...