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{{Infobox officeholder<br />
|name = Sheikh Abdul Mannan<br />
|office = General Secretary of [[Mohammedan Sporting Club (Dhaka)|Mohamedan Sporting Club]]<br />
|term_start = 1963<br />
|term_end = 1965<br />
|predecessor =<br />
|successor =<br />
|birth_date =<br />
|birth_place = [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]]<br />
|death_date = 1971<br />
|death_place = [[Dhaka]], [[Bangladesh]]<br />
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'''Sheikh Abdul Mannan''' (died 1971) was a Bangladeshi journalist who died in the [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] and is considered a "martyr" in Bangladesh.<ref name="bpn">{{cite web|last1=Khan|first1=Akhtar Husain|title=Mannan, Sheikh Abdul|url=http://en.banglapedia.org/index.php?title=Mannan,_Sheikh_Abdul|website=Banglapedia|access-date=7 February 2017|language=en}}</ref><br />
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==Early life==<br />
Mannan was born in [[Kolkata]], [[West Bengal]], [[British Raj]] in the 1920s. He moved with his family to [[East Pakistan]] after the [[Partition of India]].<ref name="bpn" /><br />
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==Career==<br />
At the beginning of his career, he worked in the [[Daily Azad]] and the [[The Sangbad|Daily Sangbad]]. He was one of the first sports journalist writing in English in East Pakistan. He was in charge of the sports desk of ''[[The Bangladesh Observer|Pakistan Observer]]'' for over a decade. He worked as the racing correspondent of the paper. The ''Pakistan Observer'' under his leadership took a position against the importation of football players from West Pakistan for the Dhaka Football league.<ref name="bpn" /><br />
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Mannan dubbed one team in Dhaka League as the "Makrani Eleven" for having an entire lineup made up of West Pakistani players, after the region in West Pakistan where most of players were from. From 1963 to 1965 he served as the General Secretary of [[Mohammedan Sporting Club (Dhaka)|Mohamedan Sporting Club]] in Dhaka. He was a member of the East Pakistan Sports federation. He championed the cause of sportsmen in East Pakistan.<ref name="bpn" /> In 1962 he was the founding General Secretary of East Pakistan Sports Press Association (today [[Bangladesh Sports Press Association]]).<ref>{{cite web|title=Bangladesh Sports Press Association|url=http://www.etradelisting.com/bangladesh-sports-press-association/|website=etradelisting.com|access-date=7 February 2022}}</ref><br />
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==Death and legacy==<br />
Mannan had kept contact with members of the [[Mukti Bahini]] and journalists who had moved to India during [[Bangladesh Liberation War]] in 1971. He was picked up from his flat in [[Purana Paltan]] by masked men and he has not been since then.<ref name="bpn" /><br />
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