"Watan Hamārā Āzād Kashmīr" ( ur, ) is the

national anthem A national anthem is a patriotic musical composition symbolizing and evoking eulogies of the history and traditions of a country or nation. The majority of national anthems are marches or hymns in style. American, Central Asian, and European n ...

adopted by

Azad Kashmir Azad Jammu and Kashmir (; ), abbreviated as AJK and colloquially referred to as simply Azad Kashmir, is a region administered by Pakistan as a nominally self-governing entitySee: * * * and constituting the western portion of the larger Ka ...

, a region in the northern part of the

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currently administered by

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. It is based on a poem of the same name written in the mid-1960s by Hafeez Jaalandhari.Jalandhari also wrote the Kashmiri anthem Watan Hamara Azad Kashmir among several other patriotic songs during the Pak-India war in 1965. It was inspired during the

Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 The Indo-Pakistani War of 1965 or the Second Kashmir War was a culmination of skirmishes that took place between April 1965 and September 1965 between Pakistan and India. The conflict began following Pakistan's Operation Gibraltar, which was d ...

.He wrote many patriotic songs during the Indo Pakistani War of 1965. He also took part in the war of 1948 on Kashmir and got injuries on his arm and leg.

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