[not quoting a stupid racist troll comment which will probably get deleted...]

The UK Border Agency operates the same way. People who make stupid and bigoted decisions are never identified and held responsible:

"a UK High Commission spokesperson merely said that the mission does not comment on individual cases"

Whoever did this is behaving like an anonymous troll only they're getting paid to be an ignorant bozo by public money.

By any standard this is one of the greatest musicians of our time that they're shut out. It would only have taken seconds for anyone to find out who he is.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amjad_Ali_Khan

There are dozens of videos of him on YouTube. This is not one of the more substantial ones, but it does show that the Nobel Peace Prize committee knew who he was:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w1nCQ3vA3Jc