Twitterati Remembers 1965 War Hero MM Alam On 6th Death Anniversary

MM Alam is considered a national hero for Pakistan for his remarkable show of brilliance in the 1965 Pak-India war

Islamabad (UrduPoint / Pakistan Point News – 18th March, 2019) The sixth death anniversary of the 1965 war hero Muhammad Mahmood Alam, popularly known as MM Alam, is being observed today.

MM Alam is considered a national hero for Pakistan 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 nine Indian Hawker Hunter fighters in the aerial fighting, and damaged two others.

In one mission on 7 September 1965, Alam crashed down 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.

The people of Pakistan are remembering the brave hero for his remarkable courage in the war. Twitterati are also paying him a tribute as #MMAlam trends top in Pakistan.

Here’s what they are saying:

MM Alam was born on 6 July, 1935 to a well-educated family of Calcutta.

He was the eldest of 11 siblings. The family migrated from Calcutta to eastern Bengal which became East Pakistan after 1947. He joined the then RPAF (now PAF) in 1952, being commissioned on 2 October, 1953. His family moved to West Pakistan in around 1971, after the secession of East Pakistan.

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

The nation still salutes the brave hero of 1965 war.