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+### Citation
+```bash
+@article{ShafiqueAlif2025,
+  title        = {Alif: Advancing Urdu Large Language Models via Multilingual Synthetic Data Distillation},
+  author       = {Muhammad Ali Shafique and Kanwal Mehreen and Muhammad Arham and Maaz Amjad and Sabur Butt and Hamza Farooq},
+  journal      = {arXiv preprint arXiv:2510.09051},
+  year         = {2025},
+  url          = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.09051}
+}
+```