Siddique Salik
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Siddiq Salik (1935–88)
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| Nickname(s) | Salik |
| Born |
September 6, 1935 Manglia, Kharian Tehsil, Punjab, India (Present-day in Gujrat, Punjab, Pakistan) |
| Died | August 17, 1988 (aged 52) Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan (Bahawalpur crash) |
| Allegiance |
 Pakistan
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| Service/branch |
 Pakistan Army
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| Years of service | 1964–88 |
| Rank |
  Brigadier
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| Unit | Guides Cavalry, Frontier Force |
| Commands held |
DG Inter Services Public Relations Dir. ISPR East Pakistan |
| Battles/wars | |
| Awards |
 Sitara-e-Imtiaz (military)
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| Other work | Novelist, Memoirist, War Artist, and Humorist. |
Indo-Pakistani War of 1965
Bangladesh Liberation War
Brigadier Siddiq Salik (Urdu: برگیڈیر صدیق سالک; September 6 1935– August 17 1988), SI(M), was a one-star rank army general in the Pakistan Army, combat artist, humorist, novelist, and a memoirist.
He is known for his role as a Director-General of the Inter-Services Public Relations which he headed from 1985 until his death in 1988 in a plane crash in Bahawalpur, Punjab, Pakistan. In addition, he also authored two eyewitnessed books on the liberation war took place in East-Pakistan, giving accounts of politics and strategies involving the breakup of nation's unity that culminated the creation of modern-day Bangladesh.
Siddique Salik was born in a Manglia, a village, located in Kharian Tehsil of Gujrat District, Punjab, India to on 6 September 1935. He hailed from a Jat clan of Punjab and his family was traditionally Peasant who worked in a local farm. He was educated in Lahore, having attended the Islamia College in the Civil Lines in Lahore in 1955.
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