Jagdish N. Singh Distinguished Senior Fellow, Gatestone Institute
Jagdish N. Singh is a senior Indian journalist with a doctorate in Political Science from the University of Delhi. Previously, he served as a Visiting Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies (Tel Aviv University) and the Centre for Land Warfare Studies (New Delhi). He was also Assistant Editor and Special Correspondent of the National Herald (New Delhi); and Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of Delhi.
Dr. Shakil Afridi, a Pakistani physician who helped the U.S. locate Osama bin Laden, has been in jail in Pakistan since he was arrested days after the raid on bin Laden's compound in 2011. In 2013, he was granted a retrial, with a new charge that appears politically motivated: charged with murder in regard to the death, eight years earlier, of a patient he had treated. Afridi has gone on a hunger strike protest his unspeakable prison conditions -- including torture. His former lawyer, Samiullah Khan Afridi, was murdered by the Taliban in March 2015.