Author: M M Alam

M. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. Karachi University faculty gold medalist Alam began his career forty-five years ago by writing for Dawn, Pakistan’s highest circulating English daily. He has worked for region’s leading publications, global aviation periodicals including Rotors (of USA) and vetted New York Times as permanent employee of daily Express Tribune. Alam regularly covers international aviation and defense-related events including Salon Du Bourget (France), Farnborough (United Kingdom), Dubai (UAE). Alam has reported thousands of events and interviewed hundreds of people in Pakistan, UAE, EU, UK and USA. Being Francophone Alam also coordinates with a number of French publications.

Farnborough Air Show 2024, Day 4: KSA buys 90 Airbus

July 25, 2024M M Alam

FARNBOROUGH (UK): On the 4th day (25th July, 2024) of the FIA, Airbus announced an order of 90 aircraft (75 A320neo and 15 A330neo) by Saudi (low-cost) carrier flynas. FARNBOROUGH (UK): On the 4th day (25th July, 2024) of the FIA, Airbus announced an order of 90 aircraft (75 A320neo and 15 A330neo) by Saudi […]

Nicolas Galey, French Envoy to Pakistan, celebrates Bastille Day

July 24, 2024M M Alam1 Comment

ISLAMABAD: French Envoy here, H.E. Nicolas Galey celebrated Bastille Day 2024 at the Embassy here on Friday. Addressing the ladies and gentlemen in the audience, the Ambassador from Hexagon pointed towards Franco-Pak historical terms that spans from education, culture to trade and economics. M M AlamM. M. Alam is a Pakistan-based working journalist since 1981. […]

Farnborough Int’l Airshow 2024, Day 3: JEKTA & Seaplane Asia sign agreement for 14 PHA-ZE 100 aircraft

July 24, 2024M M Alam1 Comment

FARNBOROUGH (UK): JEKTA Switzerland, the developer of the zero-emissions PHA-ZE 100 amphibious aircraft and Seaplane Asia signed an agreement here on Wednesday (24th July, 2024) to add 14 PHA-ZE 100 to the Southeast Asian operators fleet. With its electric and hydrogen propulsion systems the arrangement supports Seaplane Asia’s commitment to delivering environmentally friendly operations, business […]

BD: Bloody Job-Quota Riots Claim Life of a Journalist

July 23, 2024M M Alam

DHAKA (NPTV/IFJ): Students-led protests against job-quotas (for the heirs of the so-called heroes of 1971 war,) turned violent and claimed lives of 165 people including (several cops and) one journalist identified as Mehedi Hasan who worked for Dhaka Times. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ, that represents over 600,000 journalists in 140 countries) joined its […]

Farnborough Int’l Airshow 2024: JEKTA and ZeroAvia to partner on hydrogen-electric amphibious aircraft

July 22, 2024M M Alam2 Comments

FARNBOROUGH (UK): JEKTA, the Switzerland-based developer of the zero-emissions PHA-ZE 100 amphibious aircraft has announced here on Monday (22nd July, 2024) that it has selected ZeroAvia’s fuel cell power generation system (PGS) technology to demonstrate the concept of a fuel cell variant of its electric amphibious flying boat. The system will be line-fitted as the […]

Bastille Day 2024 celebrated by French CG in Karachi|

July 21, 2024August 3, 2025M M Alam3 Comments

KARACHI: French Consul General Alexis Chahtahtinsky celebrated the Bastille day here at the lawns of Beach Luxury Hotel on Sunday (14th of July, 2024). On 14th of July 1789 Fortress called Bastille was stormed in the first moments of the French Revolution. In Paris, as jets soared high to color the sky Bleu, Blanc, Rouge, […]

KSA beheads a person every 48 hrs! 7 Pakistanis executed in 2024

July 18, 2024M M Alam

MAKKAH: Berlin-based European-Saudi Organisation for Human Rights has condemned on Monday (15th July, 2024) Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) for carrying out ‘one execution almost every two days.‘ With the beheading of two drug traffickers (a Pakistani and a Saudi) here on Thursday (18th of July, 2024) KSA has executed 106 people (including 7 Pakistanis) […]

Six Vietnamese poisoned in Bangkok hotel

July 17, 2024M M Alam

BANGKOK: Six Vietnamese (two bearing American passports) were poisoned in a room of Grand Hyatt Erawan hotel in the upscale Pathum Wan district, here on Tuesday (16th July, 2024). Cyanide was found in their tea cups as well as their blood. It seems that there was a dispute of money and a seventh person killed. […]

IFJ, PFUJ condemn the killing of Aaj News Journalist Hasan Zaib

July 15, 2024M M Alam

KARACHI (NPTV/IFJ): International Federation of Journalists* (IFJ) and its affiliate Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) have strongly condemned the killing of Aaj News journalist Hasan Zaib, who was shot dead by unknown assailants on Sunday (14th July, 2024) in Akbarpura area of Nowshera district (KP). IFJ and PFUJ have demanded Pakistan’s government to act […]

Trump injured in an assassination attempt, shooter killed

July 14, 2024M M Alam

PENNSYLVANIA: Twenty-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks of Pennsylvania, who attempted to shoot Donald Trump (using a gun that his father purchased legally) during a campaign rally here on Saturday (13th July, 2024) evening was gunned down by the security personnel, whereas, the former president of USA escaped with a minor injury in the upper part of […]

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