September 06, 2023
In their first public statement since her passing, Sara Sharif's father and stepmother have said they are ready to "cooperate" with UK authorities.
In the grainy video released now, Sharif is silent while Batool reads from a notebook.
Sara receives just two phrases from her, in which she refers to the minor's passing as an "incident".
In the statement, Batool states her willingness to cooperate with UK authorities to support their legal protocols.
BBC was unable to confirm the location or the circumstances under which the video was shot.
The entirety of the 2-minute-36-second-long video that Sharif and Batool captured is made up of accusations that the Pakistani police are intimidating the couple's extended family, imprisoning them without a warrant, and conducting unauthorised house raids.
According to Batool, the family is hiding because they fear the Pakistani police will torture and murder them.
Mehmood Bajwa, the chief of police in Jhelum, told BBC that the accusations of family members being harassed and tortured are untrue.
He advised the family to go to court to seek protection if they were concerned about the police.
The exact cause of death was "not yet ascertained," although an inquiry held last month found it was probably "unnatural."
The 10-year-old's body was discovered on August 10 at her home in Woking, Surrey, where she lived with her father, her father's girlfriend, her uncle, and five brothers and sisters,
In connection with the murder inquiry, Surrey Police are interested in speaking with her father Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool, and brother Faisal Malik.
However, the Police have been unable to find them, despite the fact that they are known to have left the UK on August 9 for Pakistan.
Sara was discovered to have "multiple and extensive injuries" according to post-mortem examinations.
Olga Sharif, her mother, claimed on Polish television that she could scarcely identify Sara in the mortuary due to her wounds.
After police found Sara's corpse at Woking, detectives started a worldwide hunt.
After arriving in Islamabad, Sharif, 41, allegedly dialed 999 from Pakistan, which allowed authorities to locate Sara's body quickly.
According to Pakistani authorities, a request to start looking for the three people did not arrive via Interpol until August 15.
According to Pakistani authorities, the group arrived at Islamabad International Airport early on August 10.
It is believed that they travelled to the central Punjab city of Jhelum and relatives who lived in a tiny village close to Domeli late on August 12 before departing at approximately 5:00 the following morning, according to the police inquiry.
Police said that they were unsure of their whereabouts after that.