Wilkinson is reunited with mother 28 December 2012 Last updated at 20:29 A six-year-old girl who was abducted by her father and taken to Pakistan three years ago has been reunited with her mother after arriving back in the UK. She was reunited with her mother Gemma Wilkinson at a Manchester hotel. Her father Razwan Ali Anjum is serving a prison sentence for refusing to reveal his daughter's whereabouts. Atiya arrived on a flight into Manchester Airport shortly after 19:00 GMT and was taken to an airport hotel to meet her mother. Fit and healthy Atiya's return follows a five-week investigation after North West MEP Sajjad Karim, formally raised her abduction with the foreign minister of Pakistan in the European Parliament. Mr Karim said the authorities in Pakistan had been "absolutely crucial" in finding Atiya and making sure was returned home. Mr Karim said: "The authorities located Atiya, they monitored the address where she was and eventually moved in and informed the people she was living with - who are the extended family of the father - that she would have to return to the UK. Atiya was found to be in a fit and healthy state and was well at the time. She was certainly being kept well. Although he said there was no resistance by them he said the family only offered a "small amount of co-operation when it was clear the game was up and there was nowhere left to turn." The BBC's Aleem Maqbool said Atiya was found in the village of Daska, near Sialkot in eastern Pakistan. Atiya's mother was informed she had been found on Christmas Day and photographs were sent to her of Atiya by Pakistan authorities. Mr Karim said her mother has been "overtaken by emotions" but "handling it remarkably well." Ms Wilkinson, 32, of Ashton-under-Lyne, who split with Anjum in 2008, has made several appeals for information to find her daughter. In her latest appeal last month, she described not knowing if 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 he took her to Lahore, Pakistan, and told Ms Wilkinson that she would never see her again. In April, Atiya's father was handed a 12 month jail term by a High Court judge after he refused to reveal where his daughter was. Mr Justice Moor imposed the sentence after he found him in contempt of a High Court order instructing him to disclose Atiya's whereabouts. Anjum had indicated that Atiya was in Pakistan or Iran but said he did not know her exact whereabouts. The judge said: "It is absolutely absurd for him to suggest that he does not know the whereabouts of his daughter and he cannot contact her. The sentence was the fourth consecutive jail term to be imposed. Judges have previously imposed jail terms of two years, 12 months and 12 months in the hope that Anjum would provide information so that Atiya could be reunited with her mother. Police published a computer-generated image of what Atiya might look like now a day before her sixth birthday in November.