Ahsan Siddique Malik SJ SI(M) (Born 3 November 1948) is a retired Pakistan Army officer who defended Kamalpur in the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.

Malik was cut off and his CO, Lt. Col. Sultan Ahmed tried to extract him and reassert control of two other outposts, Naqshi and Baromari without success.

[2] Getting wary because of casualties, successive failures and demoralization among the attacking troops, he decided to starve out the garrison by a prolonged siege.

[3] Singh knew that there was no Pakistani artillery in this sector, only two troops of mortars, but states that Kler was '... further handicapped inasmuch as one of his battalions had just been reorganized from (a unit) raised initially for counterinsurgency with no support elements.

'[4] At about 09:30 on 4 December, after withdrawing his troops from the close siege, Kler 'hammered the post with seven sorties of MiG-21s firing rockets and cannons, and this was repeated twice later in the day'.

[6] Maj. Gen. Gurbux Singh decided to meet Malik personally but, while being driven towards Kamalpur by Kler, their jeep went over a mine, and he was badly wounded.