A global music star, who is an ambassador for a charity founded by King Charles that opposes violence, was filmed slapping and assaulting a band member. A video circulated on social media shows Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, an ambassador for the King's British Asian Trust combating domestic violence, physically attacking a person in a hotel in Texas, USA.
In the shocking footage, Khan, a 49-year-old Pakistani singer, is seen hitting a band member with a shoe on the head and pulling his hair in the hotel room. Khan, who has eight million followers on social media and has met with King Charles III several times in his ambassador role, is seen assaulting his bandmate in three separate video clips.
In one of the clips, Khan is recorded arguing with a man wearing a green shirt, angrily shouting: "Where is my bottle? I will hit you. Have you seen my bottle?" The 32-year-old victim appears frightened in the videos. A longer 36-second clip shows the man hunched over while Khan strikes him with what seems to be a shoe. He then hits the man on the face and head while shouting: "Where is my bottle?" The victim replies: "I did not have it, sir. What bottle?" while Khan's entourage stands by watching.
The third video shows three of his bandmates trying to pull Khan away in the hotel room in Houston, Texas. The Pakistani folk singer admitted to the assault, stating: "He was my student, and I hit him. He has no objection," explaining that his bandmate had lost a bottle of “spiritual water” that a holy man had given him. The King's British Asian Trust charity stated that it takes "all allegations of abuse seriously and will investigate the matter urgently."
