Sara Sharif: Five days before Pakistan asked to start family search

Police successful Pakistan accidental they did not person a petition to hunt for the household of Sara Sharif until 5 days aft her assemblage was recovered successful the UK.

They accidental the petition was via Interpol. Surrey constabulary person not said erstwhile they asked Interpol for the hunt to start.

The assemblage of 10-year-old Sara was recovered connected 10 August successful Woking.

UK constabulary privation to talk to her father, Urfan Sharif, his partner, Beinash Batool and his member Faisal Malik successful narration to their execution investigation.

According to caller details the BBC has been told astir the Pakistan investigation, constabulary present judge they were staying with household successful Pakistan until aboriginal connected 13 August. After this date, the constabulary accidental they don't cognize wherever they went successful the country.

Along with my squad we person been pursuing the trail.

Over 8,000km (4,971 miles) from Woking, it runs cold.

We are walking done the streets of a tiny hamlet adjacent Domeli successful cardinal Punjab, Pakistan; ungraded tracks hardly wide capable to thrust a car through, surrounded by fields, woodland and melodramatic hills connected the horizon.

This, the Pakistan constabulary tells us, is the past determination they cognize Urfan Sharif, Beinash Batool and Faisal Malik visited. According to their investigation, the household arrived astatine the location of Mr Sharif's sister and her brother-in-law present precocious astatine nighttime connected 12 August, leaving astir 05:00 section clip the pursuing day. From determination the constabulary accidental they don't cognize wherever they went.

We sojourn the household home, but each they volition accidental is that Mr Sharif's brother-in-law was taken by constabulary respective days ago; they haven't seen him since. The brother-in-law's uncle, Ameer Afzal, does talk to us.

"Yes, Urfan Sharif visited us," Mr Afzal tells us. "I didn't conscionable him personally, but my household told maine successful the greeting that helium visited with his household astatine night."

"We are precise disquieted astir wherefore the constabulary took my nephew. If determination is immoderate contented with the Urfan's family, we person thing to bash with that."

The constabulary person begun to uncover much accusation astir the family's archetypal fewer days successful Pakistan. They were already known to person landed astatine Islamabad airdrome aboriginal connected 10 August. It was from present that Mr Sharif made a 999 telephone which led officers successful the UK to the location successful Woking wherever they discovered Sara's body. An inquest heard she had sustained "multiple and extended injuries" apt to person been caused implicit a sustained play of time.

According to Pakistan police, Mr Sharif and his household were collected by household members from Islamabad airdrome and past driven to Jhelum, implicit 130km (81 miles) away. They past spent astir 2 days astatine the household location earlier relocating astir 23:00 section clip connected 12 August to his sister's location for a fewer hours.

"His brother-in-law said that they were leaving the location astatine 5am and I asked them you came astatine 12 successful the nighttime present you are leaving truthful quickly?" Syed Khurram Ali, Regional constabulary main with the Punjab constabulary tells us.

"They said we person immoderate important happening to do, but didn't explicate what. When we asked the household what was the crushed for the visit, they accidental it is conscionable a regular visit."

During our conversation, Mr Ali tells america that the Punjab constabulary were told to statesman their hunt for the household connected 15 August aft receiving a petition from Interpol done Pakistan's Federal Investigation Agency oregon FIA. Sara's assemblage was recovered connected 10 August.

We person been trying to found the crushed for the five-day gap. Surrey Police has said that they had been liaising with planetary partners since 10 August, but would not archer america erstwhile they enactment a petition to Interpol to inquire Pakistan's constabulary to hunt for the family. We did not perceive backmost from the Pakistan FIA. The Pakistan constabulary accidental they past pulled unneurotic a squad to statesman the hunt connected 16 August.

Three weeks since Sara's assemblage was discovered, the constabulary accidental they inactive bash not cognize wherever her father, stepmother and uncle are. The constabulary told america that they present person 2 teams dedicated to uncovering them and person searched locations successful Jhelum, Sialkot and Mansehra, with caller accusation coming successful regularly.

"I deliberation it would beryllium precise hard for them to enactment successful hiding for rather immoderate time," says Mr Ali.

"They volition beryllium contacting antithetic radical for their antithetic needs. It is not imaginable that they fell for an indefinite period. Police are pursuing them, moving connected it time and night. I'm definite we are going to find them."