ISLAMABAD, April 30: President Pervez Musharraf on Saturday ordered a thorough investigation into the reported gang-rape of a 17-year-old girl from Sialkot. A government announcement said the president, while taking strong note of the incident, directed the authorities concerned to ascertain as soon as possible the facts of the case so that the culprits could be brought to book and justice done.

On Thursday, the standing committee of the National Assembly on interior had also asked the director-general of the National Police Bureau to conduct investigation into the incident.

According to reports, the second-year student of the Government Allama Iqbal Girls College, Sialkot, was kidnapped on February 3 at gunpoint when she was going to the college. She was gang-raped by the culprits till she was rescued by the police almost a month later.

The Sialkot Civil Lines Police officials also raped her and then pressured her father to withdraw the FIR against the perpetrators of the crime. She remained in a local hospital for ten days.