دا جمهوریت زمونږ
Da Jamhuriat Zamong
“This Is Our Republic”
This Is Our Republic — a Pashto patriotic song from the era of the Republic of Afghanistan (1973–1978), celebrating the new republican order established after the 1973 coup.
About This Recording
Da Jamhuriat Zamong (This Is Our Republic) belongs to the brief optimistic period of the Republic of Afghanistan, declared in July 1973 when Mohammed Daoud Khan overthrew the monarchy in a bloodless coup. The establishment of a republic was greeted by many educated Afghans as a modernizing moment — an end to the anachronism of monarchy and a step toward the kind of state they had imagined.
Ahmad Zahir's Pashto-language patriotic recordings occupy a distinct place in his catalog. They demonstrate that his project was not narrowly ethnic or linguistically limited — as someone who sang in Dari, Pashto, and multiple other languages, Zahir positioned himself as a genuinely Afghan artist rather than a Dari-speaking one. This song is evidence of that positioning.