Music star and King’s anti-violence ambassador assaulted band member

A worldwide music star who’s an envoy of an anti-violence charity based by King Charles has been filmed slapping and assaulting a band member.

The stunning footage reveals Pakistani folks singer Rahat Fateh Ali Khan – an envoy for the King’s British Asian Trust which tackles home violence – attacking a backing singer on a US tour.

Khan, 49, who has eight million followers on social media, rained blows on the person with a slipper and dragged him round by his hair in the course of the brutal assault at a resort in Houston, Texas, final yr. Last night time he admitted the assault, saying: ‘He was my scholar and I hit him. He has no objection.’

The video, despatched to The Mail on Sunday, will trigger shockwaves throughout the Indian subcontinent and Britain’s Asian group and embarrass the British Asian Trust, which helps home violence victims and runs psychological well being initiatives throughout India and Pakistan.

Khan has carried out to packed arenas within the UK and world wide. At a sold-out present at Wembley, he was joined on stage by London Mayor Sadiq Khan who known as him ‘brother’.

Khan has met the King a number of occasions as ambassador to the British Asian Trust. It was based by Charles in 2007 to deal with poverty and construct group relations. Khan’s vocals have been utilized in Mel Gibson‘s 2007 film Apocalypto and he contributed to the soundtrack of 1995 movie Dead Man Walking. He made his Hollywood appearing debut in What’s Love Got To Do With It?, starring Lily James, in 2022. The movie was directed by his good friend Jemima Khan, ex-wife of former Pakistan Premier Imran Khan.

Last week, this newspaper was despatched three movies of Khan putting his bandmate. In one 22-second clip, casually dressed Khan is seen arguing with the person in a inexperienced T-shirt, shouting at him: ‘Where is my bottle? I’m going to hit you. Have you seen my bottle?’

The man, 32, who we’re not naming, appears scared. An extended 36-second clip confirmed the person crouching as Khan strikes him with what seems to be a slipper. He then hits the person on his face and head and screams: ‘Where is my bottle?’

The sufferer meekly replies: ‘I didn’t have it, sir. Which bottle?’

Members of Khan’s entourage stand and watch. The third video, nevertheless, reveals three bandmates making an attempt to drag Khan away as the lads grapple on the ground.

A supply conversant in the incident mentioned the argument might have been over a bottle of liquor.

But final night time Khan denied this and mentioned his bandmate had misplaced a bottle of ‘non secular water’ given to him by a holy man. He mentioned: ‘He was my scholar and I hit him. He misplaced my particular bottle of water, he was accountable for it, he accepted it.

‘And he has no objection to me beating him. No one has an objection if I punished my scholar as a result of he misplaced my non secular bottle of water. He has even requested me for forgiveness.’ In Pakistan, the British Asian Trust says it has educated 160 lecturers in recognizing psychological well being points in college students.

Khan is taken into account the best residing singer of a style of music well-known in Pakistan known as Qawwali, which has its origins within the poetry and music of Islamic mystics, often called Sufis.

British Asian Trust mentioned: ‘We take all accusations of abuse severely and we’ll look into this urgently.’