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His claims have been contested by retired PAF Air Commodore Sajad S. Regarding the last four, he stated: "Before we had completed more than about 270 degrees of turn, at around 12 degrees per second, all four Hunters had been shot down." In 1978, when he gave a speech at a Karachi university, he said that he saw a spiritual force coming from the sky. During the war, he was posted at Sargodha.Īccording to the PAF, in a single sortie on 7 September 1965, Alam downed five aircraft in less than a minute, establishing a world record. His actions have placed him at the top of the hall of fame list at the Pakistan Air Force (PAF) Museum in Karachi. Large flags mean confirmed kills whole smaller ones refer to probable or damaged.ĭuring the Indo-Pakistani War of 1965, Alam claimed to have scored an "ace in a day" on 7 September 1965, with a total of 5 kills. Indian Flags as kill marks visible on the nose of the sabre. Service with the Pakistan Air Force Indo-Pakistani War of 1965

Some of his younger brothers became distinguished in various academic careers. Being the eldest of his 11 siblings, Alam did not marry as he had to assume the responsibilities of the upbringing of his family. His family moved to Pakistan in 1971, after the liberation of Bangladesh. Sajjad Alam, a particle physicist at SUNY Albany. Shahid Alam, an economist and a professor at Northeastern University, and M.

He joined the then Royal Pakistani Air Force (now Pakistan Air Force) in 1952, being commissioned on 2 October 1953. It was in East Pakistan, where Alam completed his secondary education, graduating from the Government High School in Dhaka in 1951.

The family migrated from Calcutta to eastern Bengal which became East Pakistan, now Bangladesh following the formation of Pakistan in 1947. Born and raised in Bengal, Alam was a fluent Bengali speaker, however his paternal line was of Urdu-speaking Bihari origin having emigrated from Patna and settled in the Bengal province of British India for a long time. Alam was an ethnic Muhajir born on 6 July 1935 to a well-educated family of Calcutta, British India.