NEW YORK, Nov 11: Distraught over the death of his wife allegedly by a drunk motorist, last Friday a Pakistani man moved back to his home-town in Islamabad along with his four children.

"They need the family's support right now," Mohammad Ziauddin, 34, was quoted as saying by the New York Post before boarding a plane for home on Saturday. "I can't face them at this time."

Mr Ziauddin and the couple's three girls, ages 9, 5 and 3 and son, 2, have arrived at the home of relatives outside Islamabad early Sunday the news paper said.

The four children were all with their mother, 29-year-old Rubina Ramzan, when she was struck and killed crossing in Long Island, New York, at about 8:35pm. They haven't been told their mother is dead, the report said.

Rubina's brother who stayed back to look after the house, described his sister as a devoted housewife who loved buying jewellery for her three daughters to use one day in their dowries, it said. She moved to the United States three years ago to join her husband, a convenience-store clerk, who had been here since 1986.