A link that will describe you little bit about him :
http://tribune.com.pk/story/472804/cowasjees-wise-words/
http://jehanara.wordpress.com/2007/07/20/ardeshir-cowasjee-at-t2f/
http://www.thenews.com.pk/article-76893-Ardeshir-Cowasjee-dies-at-age-of-86
http://www.dawn.com/news/766531/renowned-columnist-ardeshir-cowasjee-passes-away
KARACHI: Air Commodore (retd) Mohammad Mahmood Alam passed away in Karachi 18 -03-2013 after a prolonged illness,.
Alam, 78-years-old at the time of his death, is considered a hero of the 1965 Pakistan-India war.
Alam, popularly known as M.M. Alam, while piloting an F-86 Sabre, shot down five Indian war planes in less than a minute during the war and altogether, downed nine war planes in the aerial fighting. His record remains unbeaten.
Alam was later awarded the Sitara-i-Jurrat. He also became the first and only “Jet Ace†in one mission.
The war hero was born on July 6, 1935, in Calcutta, India and was the eldest of 11 siblings. No one in his family before him had been part of the military, and in fact, he joined the armed forces against his fathers will. He is popularly known as M.M. Alam and was nicknamed “Little Dragon”. He retired in 1982 as an Air Commodore.
In December 2012, the air force legend had been transferred to the Pakistan Naval Station Shifa Hospital in Karachi due to illness.
Bhutto family in 1975: (L to R): Shahnawaz Bhutto (allegedly poisoned by the ISI in 1985); Benazir Bhutto (assassinated by Islamic extremists in 2007); Murtaza Bhutto (killed during a controversial police operation in 1996); Sanam Bhutto (living in London and Karachi); Nusrat Bhutto (died in 2011) and Z A. Bhutto (hanged by Zia dictatorship in 1979).
Ghalib was born on December 27, 1796 in the city of Akbarabad (present Agra). He was an all-time great classical Urdu and Persian poet.
He wrote several ghazals during his life, which have since been interpreted and sung in many different ways by different people. Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan Ghalib is considered, in South Asia, to be one of the most popular and influential poets of the Urdu language. Ghalib today remains popular not only in India and Pakistan but also amongst diaspora communities around the world. Mirza Ghalib is considered to be the most dominating poet of the Urdu language.
He was one of the best of Urdu poets who led a drastic revolution in Urdu poetry with his words. Ghalib felt so much proud of his Persian poetry but his Urdu poetry like “Ghazals” are also much famous today.
Ghalib started composing poetry at the age of 11. His first language was Urdu, but Persian and Turkish were also spoken at home. He got his education in Persian and Arabic at a young age.
Mirza Asadullah Baig Khan Ghalib died on February 15 1869.
