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- 1 2 3 4 Film Virasat (Urdu film) on Motion Pictures Archive of Pakistan (mpaop.org) website Retrieved 28 August 2018
- 1 2 3 Virasat (Urdu film) on pakmag.net website Retrieved 28 August 2018
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