LAHORE: An accomplice of the prime suspect in the motorway gang-rape case has confessed to the sexual assault, police sources informed Geo News on Monday, despite key suspect Abid Ali remaining in the wind.

The sources added that Shafqat Ali, with whom key suspect Abid used to commit crimes, confessed to gang-raping a woman when her car had broken down on the Lahore-Sialkot motorway on Sept 9 even before his DNA test was carried out.

Punjab Police revealed that Shafqat’s DNA matches with the samples taken from the scene of the crime.Minutes after news broke about Shafqat’s arrest,

Punjab Chief Minister Usman Buzdar confirmed that the man’s DNA had matched with the sample obtained from the rape survivor and that he had confessed to the crime.

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“Our entire team is constantly trying to arrest the accused Abid Ali, whose arrest is expected soon, God willing,” Buzdar said on Twitter. Shafqat is the second suspected rapist apart from Abid Ali, the sources added, and that Waqarul Hassan Shah and Abbas were not suspects anymore.

They added that Shafqat was a habitual offender and had been involved in crimes in the past as well. They said Waqar claimed that Abid had links to Shafqat and his brother-in-law, Abbas,

the latter of whom has been detained. Shafqat was then arrested from Dipalpur after being traced through his phone SIM card.The DNA samples obtained from Shafqat were sent to the laboratory for testing.