Pakistani journalist mocks Sakshi's win, Bachchan hits back

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Pakistani journalist mocks Sakshis win, Bachchan hits back

Delhi - Omar Quraishi mocked India for celebrating the bronze medal in a series of tweets that invited criticism from public.

By Web Report

Published: Fri 19 Aug 2016, 7:43 AM

Last updated: Sat 20 Aug 2016, 10:00 AM

India's long wait for a medal at Rio Olympics ended when Sakshi Malik clinched a bronze in wrestling on Wednesday, but Pakistan journalist Omar Quraishi mocked the celebrations of Indians on Twitter. Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan took to Twitter to answer Quraishi's criticisms.
Sakshi Malik: Defying epic obstacles to bring a medal to India
Sakshi Malik brought an end to India's long wait for a medal at the ongoing Rio Olympics, clinching bronze in the Women's Freestyle 58kg category with a spirited comeback victory over Aisuluu Tynybekova of Kyrgyzstan.
India erupted in joy after Malik gave India its first medal at the Rio Olympics 2016. Celebrations took place at the home of Sakshi Malik on Thursday in Haryana's Rohtak town after the gritty wrestler brought India its first medal in the ongoing Olympics.
A windfall of cash rewards began to fill up the maiden woman wrestling bronze medallist's coffers with a cumulative sum of over Rs 3.5 crore and a job promotion promised.
Apart from these awards, the Uttar Pradesh government also announced that it will honour Sakshi with the coveted Rani Laxmi Bai award.
Read : Celebrities hail Sakshi Malik's Olympic win
A string of celebrities including Amitabh Bachchan, Karan Johar, Ajay Devgn and Rakeysh Omprakash Mehra have praised Sakshi Malik, who has ended India's long wait for a medal at the ongoing Olympics.
But soon after Malik won, Pakistani journalist Omar Quraishi mocked India for celebrating the bronze medal. He who took to Twitter to mock at India's failure at winning medals despite a population of 1.25 billion people.

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
- omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) August 18, 2016

For a population of over 1.25 billion India managed just one bronze medal - Norway with 5 million managed 2 -- tch tch tch
- omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) August 18, 2016

Meanwhile, Pakistan has sent only seven athletes to the Rio Olympics this year.
Following the tweets, Bachchan and renowned Indian journalist Shekhar Gupta along with a host of other Twitter users lashed out at Quraishi for his remarks.
Quraishi also hit back through a series of tweets.

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 https://t.co/io5JyaMTUP
- Amitabh Bachchan (@SrBachchan) August 18, 2016

Moral of the story is that it takes a teeli tweet for Amitabh Bachchan to respond to you if you are from Pakistan https://t.co/5JiBwd6S8Y
- omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) August 18, 2016

You deserve a red card. No proportionate quota in Olympics. #GB has more medals than 25 times bigger China #Rio2016 https://t.co/2Loh6dvICW
- Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) August 18, 2016

Note to fellow Pakistani Twitterati: Critique India's performance at the Olympics & the Great Bachchan will respond pic.twitter.com/5EdjMFZCMY
- omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) August 18, 2016

Agree. Our athletes win not due to govt policies but in spite of them. That's why we mustn't mock their achievement https://t.co/qrpNtFMFXf
- Shekhar Gupta (@ShekharGupta) August 18, 2016

@omar_quraishi we sent 119, u sent 7.If all of ur athletes win medals congrats to u. If ours wins we will celebrate.What's there to complain
- Saurabh Bhandari (@sigmaiotapi) August 18, 2016

Let's worry first about a country of 1.25 billion winning just one bronze medal https://t.co/3QO90uoTEI
- omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) August 18, 2016

Actually India has more than 6 times as many people so if I were you I'd worry about India first https://t.co/trmZUsuENQ
- omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) August 18, 2016

Lo jee https://t.co/RIdIzpQgEk
- omar r quraishi (@omar_quraishi) August 19, 2016

@omar_quraishi Says the country which sent 7 athletes and 17 officials!!
- Harish Puri (@harishbpuri) August 18, 2016

@omar_quraishi @ibtimes_india it's sad to discuss failure of each other....plz be polite and try to appraise someone s success..plz
- Nitesh Singh (@niteshimnu) August 19, 2016

@omar_quraishi people on the either side of the border are basically same. Let's celebrate the victory of the champs.??#LetsRespectWinners ??
- Jash Chakraborty (@ChakrabortyJash) August 19, 2016

You forgot to mention the Pak army winning gold by Bombing own Citizens using jets. Another medal for "Hide the Osama" @omar_quraishi
- Vishal Kumar Sahu (@vishalsme) August 18, 2016

@omar_quraishi One medal gets pakis jealous. A few more and you might run to U.N. crying like you do about kashmir??
- Sanjil Vashist (@Sanjil_v) August 18, 2016

@omar_quraishi Jealousy! Oh lemme guess you belong to a country that failed to even qualify to #RioOlympics2016?
- Sakshi A Mattoo (@isakshiamattoo) August 18, 2016