DUSHANBE, March 29, 2013, Asia-Plus – Interior Minister Ramazon Rahimov has taken a search operation for two Dushanbe cousins – Malika Aralova, 6, and Sabina Aralova, 4 – who were reported missing on the evening of March 25, under his personal control, an official source at the Ministry of Interior (MoI) told Asia-Plus today.

According to him, the minister has ordered to set up a special investigation group to seek the missing girls.

Malika and Sabina have been missing since March 25.  The girls reportedly disappeared from the yard where they were playing and parents of both girls reported their missing to the police station in Dushanbe’s Shohmansour district on the same day.