Salman Masood in Islamabad
Tuesday May 3, 2005
The Guardian
The president of Pakistan has ordered a high-level inquiry after a 17-year-old girl said she was raped by two police officers after she was rescued from abductors who had kidnapped and gang-raped her.
Nazish Asghar, from the city of Sialkot in eastern Punjab province, threatened self-immolation in front of the national parliament if her attackers were not brought to justice. She says three men kidnapped her, held her for 37 days, and drugged and repeatedly gang-raped her.
The abduction made headlines when Nazish went public early last month.
Her father, Asghar Bhatti, tried to set himself alight on April 19 in the provincial capital, Lahore, in protest at the delay in arresting the suspects.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/pakistan/Story/0,2763,1475288,00.html