Posted on 01/27/2024 10:04:29 PM PST by Morgana
A global music star who is an ambassador of an anti-violence charity founded by King Charles has been filmed slapping and assaulting a band member.
The shocking footage shows Pakistani folk singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – an ambassador for the King's British Asian Trust which tackles domestic violence – attacking a backing singer on a US tour.
Khan, 49, who has eight million followers on social media, rained blows on the man with a slipper and dragged him around by his hair during the brutal attack at a hotel in Houston, Texas, last year. Last night he admitted the assault, saying: 'He was my student and I hit him. He has no objection.'
The video, sent to The Mail on Sunday, will cause shockwaves across the Indian subcontinent and Britain's Asian community and embarrass the British Asian Trust, which helps domestic violence victims and runs mental health initiatives across India and Pakistan.
Khan has performed to packed arenas in the UK and around the world. At a sold-out show at Wembley, he was joined on stage by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who called him 'brother'.
Khan has met the King several times as ambassador to the British Asian Trust. It was founded by Charles in 2007 to tackle poverty and build community relations. Khan's vocals were used in Mel Gibson's 2007 movie Apocalypto and he contributed to the soundtrack of 1995 film Dead Man Walking. He made his Hollywood acting debut in What's Love Got To Do With It?, starring Lily James, in 2022. The film was directed by his friend Jemima Khan, ex-wife of former Pakistan Premier Imran Khan.
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Bravo, Khan! He is not doing anything King Charles or any other Davos-going elite wouldn’t likely do if they could get away with it. This just unfortunately happened in front of someone with a cell phone camera.
King Charles’ anti-violence charity must be about as sincere as a “sanctuary city” in the US.
Yep, picture confirms it.
Genghis would be proud of the beating.
Texan guy was probably offended by a word that implied he was a slave owned by someone else to his Texan ears than the freeborn employed servant the English nobleman was thinking of...
No, the Texan meant that no man was master to him anywhere at any time, he didn’t think he was being confused with being a negro slave riding on the range.
It is one reason men fistfight.
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