Sara Sharif – Police in Pakistan launch manhunt to arrest father of 10-year-old found ‘murdered’ in Woking home
COPS in Pakistan have launched a manhunt to arrest Sara Sharif’s father in connection with her murder.
Officers in the eastern Punjab province confirmed they are on the hunt for 10-year-old’s dad, Urfan Sharif.
National Crime Agency cops have been working with Interpol and Pakistani authorities to track him down.
They are also on the hunt for the 41-year-old’s partner, Beinash Batool, 29, and Urfan’s brother, Faisal Malik, 28.
Sara’s body was found after police were rushed to an address belonging to Urfan, on Hammond Road around 2.50am on Thursday, August 10, 2023.
The young girl’s dad called 999 from Pakistan and it is understood he fled to the capital of Islamabad with Beinash and Faisal on August 9.
Pakistan police previously said they found evidence that the wanted dad briefly returned to his family home in Jhelum.
Officers and Urfan’s brother have claimed cops were raiding houses in their hunt for the 41-year-old.
A post-mortem revealed that Sara suffered “multiple and extensive injuries which are likely to have been caused over a sustained and extended period of time”.
Dept Supt Mark Chapman said: “While the post-mortem has not provided us with an established cause of death at this time, we now know that Sara had suffered multiple and extensive injuries over a sustained and extended period.
“This has significantly changed the nature of our investigation, and we have widened the timescale of the focus of our enquiry.
“As a result, we are trying to piece together a picture of Sara’s lifestyle but we cannot do this without the public’s help.”
UK authorities now face an uphill battle to get the group – all known to Sara – back to Britain.
This is because the UK does not have a formal extradition treaty with Pakistan, making it difficult to get the runaways back for questioning.