NATION, NATIONAL FLAG, NATIONAL ANTHEM, MEDALIONS ETC

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Great Piece of information posted by you brother Bhushan, its very informative, i am waiting for our chinese and bangladeshi brothers to come forward, by the way it'd also be very interesting to know about Israel, turkey, russia, USA, UK, France, Germany etc.

 

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I'll Try to Post Some Medalions of Pakistan Here...

Tamgha-e-Jamhuria 1375 - 23 March 1956 - Given by the President of Pakistan


Tamgah-e-Sad Saala / Jashan-i-Wiladat-i-Quaid-i-Azam - 25 December 1976


Tamgha-e-Jang 1385 - 1965 War Madel - For general service in the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War


Government of Pakistan - Kashmir 1948


Government of Pakistan - Tamgha-i-Diffa - Medal of Service 1957 Siachen Glacier


20 Years Service Medal 1992 - For 20 years service in the armed forces


Sitar-e-Herb 1385 - For combat service in the 1965 Indo-Pakistani War


Tamgha-e-Baqa Medal - 28 May 1998 - To commemorate the first successful testing of Pakistan's nuclear weapons, held in the Chagai Hills, Baluchistan, 28 May 1998

 

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Sitar-e-Herb 1391 - For combat service in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War


10 Years Service Medal - For 10 years' service in the armed forces



Tamgha-e-Jang 1391 - For general service in the 1971 Indo-Pakistani War



Golden Jubilee Medal - Pakistani Revolution - 23 March 1940 - 23 March 1990 - To mark the 50th anniversary of the revolution.


Golden Jubilee Medal 50 Years of Pakistan Independence Day - 1947 - 1997 - To commemorate the Golden Jubilee of the State of Pakistan


Hijri Medal - 1401



Pakistan Independence Medal / 14 August 1947 - 26 Ramadan 1366 Hijri - To commemorate Pakistan's indepencence in August 1947



UN Medal - In Service of Peace and Freedom

 

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Jamhuriat Medal - To commemorate the termination of Martial Law, and the return to Democracy



Itihad Bhawalpur - 14 August 1947


Pakistan Air Force - Swimming Medal


Royal Pakistan Artillery Medal - Football 1953



30 Years Service Medal - For 30 years service in the armed forces



Tamgha-e-Khidmat Medal - In Service of Peace and Freedom


Tamgha-E-Istaqlal Medal - 2001-2002


Azad Kashmir Commemoration Medal - 1947 - 1949

 

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Nishan-e-Haider


Hilal-ei-Jur’at


Sitara-e-Jur’at


Tamgha-e-Jur’at


Tamgha-e-Shujaat


Tamgha-e-Imtiaz

 

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Tamgha-e-Diffa

(1,2,3,4 Top to bottom. For reference)









Tamgha-e-Khidmat

(Ribbon Only)



Nishan-e-Imtiaz


Hilal-e-Imtiaz

 

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Sitara-e-Quaid-i-Azam


Pakistan Police Shujaat


Hilal-e-Imtiaz (Military) Neck Medallion



Hilal-e-Imtiaz (military) Chest Badge


President's Award for Pride of Performance


Tamgha-e-Basalat




Sitara-i-Imtiaz

 

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Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Military) Sash


Sitara-i-Imtiaz


Nishan-i-Quaid-i-Azam


UNMOGIP United Nations (UN) Military Observer Group - Pakistan Medal



Tamgha-i-Pakistan


Nishan-i-Khidmat

 

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Nishan-e-Imtiaz (Civil) Sash


Nishan-e-Pakistan Neck Medallion


Sitara-e-Harb (1971)

 

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Nishan-i-Quaid-i-Azam

ekota, shrinkhola, imaan (Starting from the bottom in clockwise fashion)- written in Bengali on the nishan-i-qaid e azam medal. They mean unity, discipline and faith. I guess those were the motto of Pakistan!

 

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The National Emblem of Bangladesh was adopted shortly after independence in 1971.

Located on the emblem is a water lily, that is bordered on two sides by rice sheaves. Above the water lilly are four stars and a three connected jute leaves. The water lily is the country's national flower, and is representative of the many rivers that run through Bangladesh. Rice represents its presence as the staple food of Bangladesh, and for the agriculture of that nation. The four stars represent the four founding principles that were originally enshrined in the first constitution of Bangladesh in 1972: nationalism, secularism, socialism, and democracy.

National and official language is Bengali (Bangla), the fifth/sixth largest spoken language in the world.

National anthem of Bangladesh is "Amar Shonar Bangla". It is a 1906 song written and composed by the Nobel laureate and famous Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore, adopted in 1972 as the national anthem of Bangladesh. Another Bengali poem of Rabindranath Tagore, "Jono gono mono" was adopted as the national anthem of India.
File:Amar Shonar Bangla instrumental.ogg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

My Bengal of Gold (My beloved Bengal),
I love you.
Forever your skies,
Your air set my heart in tune
As if it were a flute.
In spring, O mother mine,
The fragrance from your mango groves
Makes me wild with joy,
Ah, what a thrill!
In autumn, O mother mine,
In the full blossomed paddy fields
I have seen spread all over sweet smiles.
Ah, what a beauty, what shades,
What an affection, and what a tenderness!
What a quilt have you spread
At the feet of banyan trees
And along the banks of rivers!
O mother mine, words from your lips
Are like nectar to my ears.
Ah, what a thrill!
If sadness, O mother mine,
Casts a gloom on your face,
My eyes are filled with tears!
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a rendition of amar shonar bangla by a non-Bangladeshi in violin:

another violin rendition by the Junior Miss America 2007 Nora Ali:

Amar Shonar Bangla with lyrics and some amazing pictures from Bangladesh:

However, this 40 seconds clip is the best version I have ever heard or watched. It was sung before battles by the Mukti Bahini soldiers in 1971 and as a Bangladeshi I never felt the same emotion in my blood and mind in any other renditions of our national anthem as I felt listening to this

 

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The following are the national symbols of the People's Republic of Bangladesh:

National Animal: Royal Bengal Tiger ( Panthera tigris tigris or Panthera tigris bengalensis)- Previously it was considered the second largest subspecies, behind the Siberian tiger (Panthera tigris altaica), however a recent study suggests that maybe this subspecies could be, on average, the largest of the tigers. A mutation of the Bengal subspecies, the white tiger have dark brown or reddish brown stripes on a white background color, and some are entirely white. According to the Guinness Book of Records, the heaviest tiger known was a huge male hunted in 1967, it measured 322 cm in total length between pegs (338 cm over curves) and weighed 388.7 kg (857 lb.). This specimen was hunted in the north of India by David Hasinger and is actually on exhibition in the Smithsonian Institution. This makes Bengal Tiger the largest species of the living cats of the felidae family.

National Bird: Oriental Magpie Robin ( Copsychus saularis)


National Fish: Hilsa (Tenualosa ilisha)

National Mammal: Ganges River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica gangetica)- The Ganges River Dolphin is primarily found in the Ganges and Brahmaputra Rivers and their tributaries in Bangladesh, India and Nepal, while the Indus River Dolphin (Platanista gangetica minor) is found in the Indus river in Pakistan and its Beas and Sutlej tributaries. From the 1970s until 1998, they were regarded as separate species; however, in 1998, their classification was changed from two separate species to subspecies of a single species.

National Tree: Banyan (Ficus benghalensis)-is a species of banyan endemic to Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka. It can grow into a giant tree covering several hectares. The Great Banyan in the Indian Botanic Garden, Howrah, West Bengal is considered to be one of the largest trees in the world in terms of area covered.
On the banks of the Nerbudda stood a celebrated specimen, supposed to be that described by Nearchus, the admiral of Alexander the Great. This tree once covered an area so immense, that it was known to shelter no fewer than 7000 men, and though much reduced in size by the destructive power of floods, the remainder was described by James Forbes (1749-1819) in his Oriental Memoirs (1813-1815) as nearly 2000 ft. in circumference, while the trunks large and small exceeded 3000 in number.