The music for the anthem had been composed earlier, in 1949, by the musician Ahmed Ghulam Ali Chagla. Jalandhari's verses were selected from 723 entries in a competition, and the full anthem with lyrics was officially adopted and broadcast for the first time on Radio Pakistan on August 13, 1954.
Who composed the lyrics of the National Anthem of Pakistan?
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