SARA ARREST 'TODAY' VOW

Cops aim to close in on runaway dad by tonight |  Death of 10-year-old a 'painful case' for officers

- TOM PETTIFOR

POLICE in Pakistan expect to arrest the fugitive father of murdered Sara Sharif today.

A senior officer said the net is closing in on Urfan Sharif, his partner Beinash Batool and his brother Faisal Malik, who all left the UK after the tragic 10-year-old died.

Nasir Bajwa, police chief in the family’s hometown Jhelum, said yesterday: “With God’s will we will make the arrest by tomorrow night.”

And he said teams of officers working on the investigation are finding it a painful case because “a little child has met a brutal death”.