History of Goonga pehlwan(Rustam-E-Hind)
The Great Goonga Pehlwan (Rustam-e-Hind) The Great Feroz Deen urf “Goonga Pehlwan” (dumb and mute wrestler) Rustam-e Hind was the greatest wrestler ever produced by the soil of Sialkot. He was born in a village named Jharan, District Sialkot. Goonga Pehlawan was a tall rock strong man above six feet (as told by my late father Chaudhry Munawwar Nasrullah Khan he met him along with his “GURZ” {GURZ is a trophy and a great matter of pride for any Pehlawan}in Daska in his childhood). The whole world of desi kushti was shocked when the famous Wrestler and Champion Imam Buksh of those times (who was the younger brother of great and legendary Gama Pehlawan) was defeated by Goonga Pehlawan, it was an upset and the news was spread in the whole subcontinent like a jungle fire. At that time Goonga was very young and the existing Champion Imam Buksh was was a mature strong Pehlawan with lot of strength and experience and at the peak of his career and was considered a solid rock which couldn’t ...