JHARA Pahalwan was a well known professional wrestler in Pakistan

Pakistan

Pakistan , officially the Islamic Republic of Pakistan is a sovereign state in South Asia. It has a coastline along the Arabian Sea and the Gulf of Oman in the south and is bordered by Afghanistan and Iran in the west, India in the east and China in the far northeast. In the north, Tajikistan...

. He belongs to a prominent wrestling family. He was the Pakistani Champion of the past era. He was a powerhouse of wrestling like his father Aslam Pahalwan

Aslam Pahalwan

-Career:Aslam Pahalwan started his wrestling career as the pupil of Hamida Pahalwan and also the Great Gama of India. Aslam is one of the unbeatable wrestlers that the art of traditional wrestling produced when it flourished in India during the past....

. He was also a master of the art of mud-wrestling like his uncle Bholu Pahalwan

Bholu Pahalwan

Bholu was one of the most popular wrestlers of 1950s. His name has been recorded in the annals of wrestling. Bholu originates from aGujjar family of renowned wrestlers from Amritsar, Punjab. He lived in Amritsar till age 9. Then during one of his school holidays Bholu moved to Patiala to visit his...

. He possessed speed and fast reflexes like Bholu. He was trained in wrestling by different wrestlers including Arshad Bijli. The private residence and training center of Jhara Pahalwan were in the neighborhoods of Pir Makki.

During his early days Jhara fought his initial wrestling match against Zawar Multani in the city of Multan

Multan

Multan , is a city in the Punjab Province of Pakistan and capital of Multan District. It is located in the southern part of the province on the east bank of the Chenab River, more or less in the geographic centre of the country and about from Islamabad, from Lahore and from Karachi...

. He defeated Multani twice. He also participated in some free style wrestling matches in Pakistan and abroad. He won a match with the Japanese wrestling champion Antonio Inoki

Antonio Inoki

is a Japanese professional wrestling promoter and retired professional wrestler and mixed martial artist who now resides between New York City and Tokyo. He was also the founder and former owner of New Japan Pro Wrestling before selling his controlling share in the promotion to Yukes...

in a controversial encounter .Inoki had previously defeated his Uncle Bholu Pehlwan.

Jhara died of heart failure. At that time of death he was only 29 years old.

He started his international wrestling in the age of just only 16 year. His height was 6'.2" and weight was nearly 96kg.