Pakistani Wrestlers Action Carelessness to Backpack Attitude on

MULTAN: Hundreds of Pakistanis animated and chanted through a acceptable angry bout in the axial
city-limits of Multan Saturday as boom beats admiring added admirers in a bid to animate the dying sport.

Government carelessness and abjection has helped address the august feats of Pakistani wrestlers to fast-fading memory. Alone a scattering backpack the bake for the next bearing and few command the bags of assemblage of canicule gone by.

From 1954 to 1970, Pakistan won 18 angry gold medals in the Commonwealth Games, 5 at the Asian Games and a Bronze in the 1960 Olympics.

But alone a scattering of medals accept been won back then. Rings that already awash with bags of assemblage are now silent.

In Multan, however, the spirit of the action was animate and well, with the clash alluring wrestlers from altered cities and the army brindled through with adolescent and old assemblage — admitting the numbers accept dwindled from the celebrity canicule of kushti, or acceptable wrestling.

“We organised this clash to ensure the action lives on,” said ex-wrestler Indrees Butt.

“Traditional angry is allotment of our society,” added beholder Zawar Baluch.

“This action can save our youths from indulging in bad habits. They wish to be become Pahalwans (wrestlers) which would advice actualize a acceptable consequence a part of humans in the association day by day.”

Tournament champ Mohammad Raheel Butt said the antagonism was “tough” but that he won “with the adroitness of God”.

He faced competitors such as the aggressive but beneath adherent Imran Mailsi, who said angry was the ancestors profession.

“A lot of humans appear to see Kushti in the Akhara (mud-wrestling court), area they adjure for us which amuses me,” he told AFP.

“We wish this acceptable angry to abide here. Inshallah (God willing), I will become the Rustom-i-Pakistan