HYDERABAD, May 11: The Human Rights Commission of Pakistan's Special Task Force on Sindh has demanded a judicial investigation into the killing of two young girls, Abida and Tehmina, in Shikarpur.

In its report released here on Tuesday, the HRCP task force said that a four-member committee of the commission visited village Junnoo in Shikarpur on May 8. The team found that not a single individual, out of 6,000 villagers belonging to the Bhutto clan, was willing to utter a word against the perpetrators of the crime.

The reported said that was the reason why police had failed to recover the bodies of the two girls so far. According to the report, the two girls, without seeking permission from their parents, had gone to their relatives in Sukkur.

They were brought back by Abdul Rasheed Bhutto in his car. The families of the two girls and other people said that Abdul Rasheed Bhutto had kept the girls with him as 'Saam' (Amanat).

Tehmina's brother, police constable Fazal Din, demanded the return of the girls, but was informed that they had been declared Karis (fornicators) and killed. Fazal Din lodged a case with police and is being threatened with dire consequences. People hold Abdul Rasheed Bhutto, the village Wadera, responsible for the murders.

The report said the real murderers had hatched a conspiracy to implicate Hidayatullah, brother of Fazal Din, and the driver of Abdul Rasheed Bhutto. Tehmina's mother told the committee that when the girls were being taken to an unknown place by Abdul Rasheed Bhutto, Hidayatullah was dropped near the hotel of Manzoor.

The report pointed out the ring worn by one girl and Rs900 in possession of the other had changed hands before they were murdered. Police, said the report, had recovered the money and the ring from the possession of Abida's father Dad Mohammad, who said those things had been given to him by Younus.

The HRCP said there was every possibility of compromise in the case as the families of the victims and the accused were relatives. Employees' plea: The Sindhi Adabi Board Press Employees Association has appealed to the Sindh chief secretary and education secretary to direct the DCO and education EDO of Hyderabad to issue posting orders of those board employees who have been transferred to the education department.

In a statement issued here on Tuesday, the president of the association, Sikandar Ali Dars, and general secretary, Ghulam Haider Kachhi, said that the DCO and the EDO were trying to find excuses for delaying the issuance of posting orders of the employees.

They wondered why the DCO was not complying with government orders when the board employees transferred to other districts had not only been given their posting orders and were also regularly receiving salaries.

They said that they failed to understand how a DCO could dare defy the orders of a provincial minister and added that they would soon approach Sindh Education Minister Irfanullah Khan Marwat, who is also the chairman of the board, to apprise him about the situation.

They urged the secretary of board, Inam Shaikh, to help resolve the problem and also appealed to Hyderabad District Nazim Dr Makhdoom Rafiquzzaman to intervene in the matter..

They warned the DCO and EDO that if the transferred employees were not given posting orders and their salaries were not released, the board employees would resort to protest.