India, May 28 -- India's star sprinter, Milkha Singh, in another great performance today won the 200 metres title to complete a magnificent double in the Asian Games here.

In what the young Services athlete himself termed a " win or die " race, Milkha Singh breasted the tape a fraction of a second ahead of Pakistan's Abdul Khaliq, Asia's fastest runner, to equal the Games record of 21.6 seconds set up by M. Shariff Butt of Pakistan in the second Asian Games at Manila four years ago. Yesterday he had won easily in the 400 metres with a timing of 47 seconds to give India their first Gold Medal of the Games.

This was the first time Milkha Singh was running with Abdul Khaliq and just as he had finished the race, he tripped and fell down pro...