Sediq Afghan
Sediq Afghan (Persian: صدیق افغان ) is an Afghan mathematician. He is the founder and head of the World Philosophical Math Research Center in Kabul, Afghanistan. He is also a political activist. He had a prominent role in protests in Kabul about Afghanistan- and Islam-related issues, including an anti-American protest in 2003, a hunger strike to protest beatings of journalists by Afghan security officers in 2006, and another one to protest the 2008 Danish Muhammad cartoons.In June 2023, reports appeared in the media that Sediq Afghan predicted "catastrophe with global consequences" to occur on July 17, 2023.