On 14 September, four Sabres on CAP encountered four Gnats in the Lahore area, but the IAF aircraft refused combat and used their superior speed to dive away and escape. Two days later, however when S/L Alam, accompanied by Fig Off M. L. Shaukat as his No 2, was flying a MiG-baiting CAP only about 10 miles from the Indian airfields of Halwara and Adampur at about 20,000ft the IAF accepted the challenge with a couple of Hunters. After being directed by Sakesar on this deep penetration, S/L Alam called up the GCI station to check on his position since his wingman was young and inexperienced with a total of only about 300 hours flying, including 70-80 hours on the F-86. Sakesar confirmed that Halwara was 10 miles to the left and instructed the Sabres to turn back through 180 degrees, at the same time warning the PAF pilots that IAF aircraft were climbing up for an interception. 'Do you want to fight?" asked Sakesar knowing that Alam had an inexperienced wingman with him. Alam's answer was resigned: 'Now we are here we have got to fight.

A continuous commentary on the position of the IAF aircraft was passed by Sakesar to S/L Alam, who finally made visual contact with two Hunters closing in from a range of about 4-5.000ft. He recalls:

"They were flying very fast: we were doing about Mach 0.8, but they must have been diving at around Mach 0.95 or more. They couldn't stay in our turn so they zoomed up in a yo-yo manoeuvre. When I reversed back they both pulled through from there and we dived behind them until at about 13-14.000ft they separated in a vertical break. One of the Hunters went on down while the other pulled up to about 20,000ft with me still behind him. I'm sure this Hunter must have pulled between 7-8g because I turned at about 61/2g to keep with him and my aircraft flicked. I thought my drop tanks must have stayed on when I jettisoned them. But when I looked the wings were clean. So I had simply been pulling too much g.

I fired my first burst at the Hunter when I was pulling about 6g and although my gunsight was tracking him, I didn't hit him. As we were still climbing, however the g began to bleed off and the second time I fired at the Hunter I hit him. At the third burst, he became a ball of flame, so I turned back and looked for my wingman. He had not been able to stay with me, and had been engaged in combat by the other Hunter. Then I suddenly lost all radio contact with him although I could see him in the distance and I saw, the Hunter break away from him."

Alam's first victim was S/L Bunsha, who was killed in the action.

Alam continues:

"The Hunter saw me but although he was so close to his own base, he didn't want to accept combat."

Alam then fired his sidewinder at him but missile strayed off due to mechanical malfunction. He then fired his second missile, which scored a hit on Hunter's right wing root and plane began to smoke. Due to low fuel levels and incoming Indian fighters, Alam abandoned the pursuit and returned to Sargodha. Due to direct hit, aircraft was presumed to have crashed.