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The news came in the morning that the Indian Super Star King Khan was detained in the New York airport because his name flashes in the security computer as it had the term “khan” in it!!! That’s rediculous and US official should be ashamed of having let such an incident happen. They are not doing the job right here.

Many news agencies in the country has already express their feeling against the incident. Here are some quotes from different news source in India.

From Taragana:

India’s former ambassador to the United States Naresh Chandra on Saturday said that the detention of Bollywood superstar Shahrukh Khan at Newark International Airport for two hours, clearly exhibited the “ham-handed” approach of American security agencies. Reacting to the incident, Ambassador Chandra said: ” The authorities should have taken maximum 10 -15 minutes for questioning Shahrukh, but it took two hours. It is great incompetence and has lowered the image of (US) Homeland Security”. Chandra, however, said that making it a big diplomatic issue would be counterproductive because the incident had nothing to do with US policy, but was the handiwork of lowly officers deployed at the airport.

From TOI:

Superstar Shahrukh Khan was detained for about two hours early Saturday morning (around 1am IST) at Newark airport in the US because his surname featured on the most common list. The actor, who is visiting the US to attend a South Asian event where he was the guest of honour was released after Congress MP Rajiv Shukla spoke to the authorities in the US and the Indian counsulate. Shukla, who came to the actor’s rescue condemned this act saying, “It is really not fair. Just because he has a common surname does not mean that every Muslim can be taken as a suspect or considered to be a terrorist. The Amercian authorities should adopt a methodology so that well-known names like Shahrukh Khan and APJ Abdul Kalam are not harassed like this. They should focus on getting the actual suspects.’’

From PTINews:

“It is a Muslim name and I think the name is common on their checklist,” King Khan told Indian television channels over telephone. In New Delhi, US Ambassador Timothy J Roemer described Khan as a “global icon”, who is a welcome guest in the US.