Five children who travelled from the UK to Pakistan with Sara Sharif’s father have been recovered from her grandfather’s home in the city of Jhelum, police said.
Neighbours said that dozens of officers raided the grandfather’s house, where the children were hiding, on Monday.
Ten-year-old Sara was found dead at her family home in Woking on 10 August – a day after her father and his partner fled the UK.
Post-mortem tests found Sara sustained “multiple and extensive injuries”.
Sara’s father Urfan Sharif and stepmother, Beinash Batool, left the UK with five children aged between one and 13.
Muhammad Sharif, Sara’s grandfather, told the BBC that he had been hiding the children in his home in the north-eastern city of Jhelum since their arrival on 10 August.
“Since they came from the UK, I didn’t let them go,” Mr Sharif told the BBC.
Sharif and Batool appeared in a video released to the media by relatives last week. Batool was the only one to speak, saying “Sara’s death was an incident” and giving no other comment about her stepdaughter or the circumstances of her death.
She went on to say: “Our family in Pakistan are severely affected by all that is going on. My main concern is that Pakistani police will torture or kill us, that is why we have gone into hiding.”
