Olympic bronze medallist Sakshi Malik stunned reigning World champion Petra Olli of Finland to enter the final of the women's 65kg category freestyle at the Dan Kolov 2019 wrestling meet in Ruse, Bulgaria on Thursday.
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'I won because of my technique, not my power' The Indian outclassed Olli 4-1 in the semi-finals.
Sakshi will next meet Henna Johansson of Sweden in the gold-medal clash on Friday.
Sakshi has won a bronze medal in the 58kg category at the 2016 Rio Olympics.
nobody is buying the Indian govts strike on Balakot story. How international media has been reporting the entire operation :
*New York Times*: “The view that little had been damaged was supported by military analysts and two Western security officials, who said that any militant training areas at the site, in the Pakistani province of (KPK), had long since packed up or dispersed. Balakot and its surrounding area hosted numerous militant training camps until 2005, when a powerful earthquake struck the area, devastating its towns and villages. As international aid groups poured in to provide relief, militants packed up their camps and went elsewhere, to avoid being detected”.
London-based *Jane’s Information Group*, which tracks the defense industry: “a lot of intelligence sources say those camps in Pakistan had been cleaned out .. This is more political symbolism than anything else. Mr. Modi had to show some demonstrable action on India’s part, ahead of elections.”
*Washington Post*: "Initial reports from local police officials and residents who spoke on the condition of anonymity confirmed that a strike took place in a mountainous area a few miles outside town, but they said they saw no signs of mass casualties."
*Daily Telegraph*: "Villagers in the area told Reuters they heard four loud bangs in the early hours of Tuesday but reported only one person wounded by shrapnel. "We saw trees fallen down and one house dama
Re: Apart from the Indian press,
by piri on Mar 01, 2019 06:38 PM
The Guardian: "The attack was celebrated in India, but it was unclear on Tuesday whether anything significant had been struck by the fighter jets, or whether the operation had been carefully calibrated to ease popular anger over the 14 February suicide bombing without drawing a major Pakistani reprisal.
Re: Re: Apart from the Indian press,
by piri on Mar 01, 2019 06:39 PM
In sum, the Modi govt has been claiming that the IAF killed hundreds of terroxrists without having a shred of evidence for it !
That the govt has made the IAF parrot out this claim renders the words of the govt if India in this matter as unworthy of trust as are the words of the govt of Pakistan !
The only things commoners can be certain about is that while India lost 41 CRPF jawans, 2 aircraft and 1 pilot, Pak lost one F 16 aircraft only in this feud so far !
