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.
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