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4th death anniversary of 1965 war hero MM Alam being observed today

The fourth death anniversary of 1965 war hero Squadron Leader MM Ala is being observed today.

Alam was born in Calcutta on July 6 1935. He was brought up in Bengal, India but after partition in 1947 his family migrated to the then East Pakistan, now Bangladesh. Alam was granted commission in PAF in 1953.

Alam became a national hero for his remarkable show of brilliance in the 1965 Pak-India war when he was posted at Sargodha. During this war he was involved in various dogfights while flying his F-86 Sabre fighter. He downed as many as nine Indian aircraft including six Hawker Hunters in the aerial fighting, and damaged two others.

In one mission on 7 September 1965, Alam downed five Indian aircraft in less than a minute, the last four within 30 seconds, establishing a world record, with total of nine aircraft downed in the war.

In 1982, Alam retired from PAF as an Air commodore and settled in Karachi. Alam died in Karachi on 18 March 2013 at age 77.