Pakistan adopted a new national anthem in 1973.
=== Independence and modern Pakistan ===After independence in 1947, Jinnah, the President of the Muslim League, became the nation's first Governor-General as well as the first President-Speaker of the Parliament, but he died of tuberculosis on 11 September 1948
In 1977, after taking power from Bhutto in a coup d'tat, General Zia-ul-Haq, who came from a religious background, committed himself to establishing an Islamic state and enforcing sharia law

