Sara was found at a property on Hammond Road after Urfan Sharif, 41, took his partner and brother along with five children to Pakistan before making a 999 call.
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Police in
Pakistan are scrambling to insist that they are 'close to locating' the family of 10-year-old
Sara Sharif, who was found murdered at home in Woking after her father fled the country with relatives and contacted police.
Sara was found at a property on Hammond Road after Urfan Sharif, 41, took his partner and brother along with five children to Pakistan before making a 999 call about the daughter he had abandoned.
Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool, 29, and his brother Faisal Malik, 28, are being hunted by Pakistani officers, who had previously detained two of Sharif's other brothers.
But a court in the country ruled on Thursday that police had questioned his father and detained the two brothers illegally - after they were held for multiple days without being arrested for any
crime.
At the Lahore high court Jhelum Police officers were banned from detaining the brothers again, but announced their intention to continue questioning them.
has been reported that the rest of the Sharif family have gone into hiding after Sara's father briefly returned to the family home upon arriving back in his home country.
In a statement to
The Mirror, Rawalpindi Region police chief Khurram Ali said the force was trying its 'level best' to find Sharif, Batool and Malik, who fled with five children aged one to thirteen, and was 'close to locating them'.
He added: 'It’s a matter of great concern for our police as a child was brutally killed and it is painful for all of us.'
Mr Ali said the force has interrogated the father, brother and uncle of Mr Sharif.