A six-year-old girl who was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan three years ago is on her way back to the UK.
Atiya Anjum-Wilkinson was last seen when she was taken from her home in Ashton-under-Lyne, Greater Manchester, on her third birthday in 2009.
Her father Razwan Ali Anjum is serving a prison sentence for refusing to reveal his daughter's whereabouts despite a court order.
Police said Atiya would return to the UK from Pakistan this afternoon.
The BBC's correspondent in Islamabad, Aleem Maqbool, said it appeared the Pakistani authorities were involved and that she was found in Lahore.
Atiya's mother, Gemma Wilkinson, 32, of Ashton-under-Lyne, whose relationship with Anjum ended in 2008, has made several appeals for information about her whereabouts since her disappearance.
Four jail termsThe latest was last month, when she said not knowing Atiya was even alive was an "absolute nightmare".
Ms Wilkinson took legal action against her former partner in an attempt to force him to reveal her whereabouts.
Courts have been told Anjum said he was taking Atiya to Southport, but instead took her to Lahore, Pakistan, and told Ms Wilkinson that she would never see her again.
The former insurance salesman was handed a fourth consecutive jail term by a High Court judge in April after he refused to reveal where his daughter was.
Mr Justice Moor imposed a 12-month prison sentence after he found him in contempt of a High Court order instructing him to disclose Atiya's whereabouts.
Anjum indicated that Atiya was in Pakistan or Iran but said he did not know her exact whereabouts.
The judge said: "I am certain that he is in contempt. It is absolutely absurd for him to suggest that he does not know the whereabouts of his daughter and he cannot contact her.
"I am certain he is lying."
'Trauma and nightmares'Another judge has previously said the case was "as bad a case of child abduction as I have encountered".
Speaking ahead of Atiya's sixth birthday, Ms Wilkinson said: "It's been an absolute nightmare.
"As to her whereabouts we know nothing. We've had no contact. I'm worrying every day, every single day. Everything is affected by it."
She added: "It's ongoing, it's been three years of trauma and nightmares. I can't sleep at night. I just want to know she's OK, she's being looked after.
"We haven't celebrated her birthday since she went missing but I've bought her presents each year - they are waiting for her to open when she comes home.
"I had no reason to believe that she was at any risk. There had been a standard routine, there hadn't been any problems with the arrangements."
It is thought Atiya was traced after police published a computer-generated image of what she would look like now - a day before her sixth birthday in November.
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