Watan Hamara Azad Kashmir

وطن ہمارا آزاد کشمیر
Our Country is Free Kashmir

State anthem of Azad Kashmir
LyricsHafeez Jalandhari, 1960s

"Watan Hamārā Āzād Kashmīr" (Urdu: وطن ہمارا آزاد کشمیر), officially known as the Anthem of Azad Jammu and Kashmir is the national anthem of the state of Azad Kashmir, administered by Pakistan.[a] It is based on a poem of the same name written in the mid-1960s by Hafeez Jalandhari.[1] It was inspired during the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965.[2]


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  1. ^ "National anthems founder remembered". Dawn.com. 2009.Jalandhari also wrote the Kashmiri anthem Watan Hamara Azad Kashmir among several other patriotic songs during the Pak-India war in 1965.
  2. ^ "Jalandhri confined himself for 3 months to write National Anthem". 2016.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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