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Shed turban, envoy to UN told at Houston airport
HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times
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New Delhi, December 14, 2010
Last Updated: 01:09 IST(14/12/2010)
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Another high-ranking Indian diplomat has been insulted at yet another airport
in the United States. If Indian ambassador to the US Meera Shankar had to
undergo a pat down search at Michigan airport on December 4, it has now emerged
that a few days earlier, Hardeep Puri, India's permanent representative at the
United Nations, was asked to remove his turban by airport security staff at
Houston.
When Puri refused to do so he was pulled out of the queue and made to wait for
half an hour in a separate 'holding room'.
India has lodged an official protest through its Consulate General in Houston
with the US authorities, sources said. Talking to reporters in New Delhi,
external affairs minister SM Krishna said he hoped the issue would be sorted
out soon.
The TSA, which handles security at airports, has said its rules allow it to
search diplomats too. But Krishna said US secretary of state Hillary Clinton
had hinted that Washington could revise its policy.
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