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Pak journalist who mocks Sakshi Malik's win gets taken down... and how!
August 19, 2016

As Sakshi Malik won India the bronze medal in 58kg Women's Wrestling and made the entire nation proud, Omar Quraishi, a Pakistani journalist, mocked India's win at the Rio Olympics 2016 in a series of tweets.

"Finally one of the 119 competitors that India sent to Rio has won a medal -- a bronze -- now see how they portray it as if they won 20 golds. For a population of over 1.25 billion India managed just one bronze medal -- Norway with 5 million managed 2," he said.

The outrage on Twitter was almost immediate.

@vivekrajindia @omar_quraishi sir, what is your problem? Can't be happy for your neighbour? Live and let live

@manakgupta Tch tch tch....this coming from a nation where not even one player could qualify for olympics

@priyankac19 @manakgupta only if bomb making, squabbling, finger pointing&terrorising was a sport, Pak would have excelled. Just saying. @omar_quraishi


@Sanjil_v @omar_quraishi One medal gets pakis jealous. A few more and you might run to U.N. crying like you do about kashmir😂

@KyaUkhaadLega .@omar_quraishi A small correction sir, *that India was able to send because they qualified.* and then tweeted the Tribune headline saying, No Pakistani qualifies for Rio.

Omar Quraishi then tweeted, "My TL would suggest that may Indians on Twitter are quite intolerant of criticism - one bronze for 1.25 billion people is valid criticism."


And finally, Amitabh Bachchan tweeted a sentiment echoed by 1.25 billion people: @SrBachchan For me it is worth a 1000 golds and even that is not enough. Pride for Sakshi, proud that she is Indian and a woman.
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