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 "label": {
  "en": "Shabana Azmi on her father — Movie Talkies (2026)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "تقرير «موفي توكيز» ⁦(22 أكتوبر 2026)⁩ عن تصريحات شبانة أعظمي: «كان والدي ملحداً».",
  "en": "Movie Talkies report of 22 October 2026 on Shabana Azmi’s IIMUN remarks, in which she states of her father Kaifi Azmi: “My father was an atheist.”"
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  "title": "'I am a Muslim, but I don't read Namaz,' says Shabana Azmi",
  "author": [
   {
    "family": "Movie Talkies",
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  ],
  "issued": {
   "date-parts": [
    [
     2026,
     10,
     22
    ]
   ]
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  "publisher": "Movie Talkies",
  "URL": "https://www.movietalkies.com/news/shabana-azmi-says-she-doesnt-read-namaz-12719106",
  "language": "en",
  "reliability_note": "Entertainment-news report, read in full on the publisher’s site; published 22 October 2026. It quotes the poet’s daughter Shabana Azmi directly: “My father was an atheist. And my mother used to practice it somewhat but not seriously.” A close family witness’s public testimony, registered for the unbelief reading it carries; it is her statement about him, not his own words.",
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  "status": {
   "review": "published",
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 "updated": "2026-11-06",
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 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
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