Karzai orders probe of teen wife's torture KABUL, Afghanistan, Jan. 2 (UPI) -- Afghan President Hamid Karzai ordered an investigation into the torture of a 15-year-old girl police said they rescued from the basement of her in-laws' house. In a statement Sunday, Karzai ordered the Interior Ministry to investigate the case of Sahar Gul and directed the deputy interior minister to make any necessary arrests, CNN reported Monday. Last month, authorities in Baghlan province said they rescued the girl after receiving reports she was tortured for refusing her in-laws' demands to become a prostitute. Police said they were waiting until she recovered to talk to her before proceeding. The girl was married to a 30-year-old man about seven months ago. After her parents reported not seeing her for months, police began investigating At the time, police said they rescued the teen, starved, with her nails removed, from a dark basement room in her in-laws' house. Police arrested her in-laws but her husband fled. Rahima Zarifi, director of the Women's Affairs Department in Baghlan, said the girl was hospitalized. Zarifi said the case illustrates how women still suffer in parts of Afghanistan despite progress since the fall of the Taliban.