Pakistan national Zeeshan Jaral Raja, 36, appealed for leniency over 16 years jail sentence he was handed for sexual assault on a 15-year-old girl but has turned out to be a painful experience High Court judge Redson Kapindu has slapped him a 30-year jail term for defilement and another 20 years for abduction. Jaral Raja a […]
Malawi Police in Karonga have arrested 11 Pakistanis at Kaporo Road Block for illegal entry into the country. Karonga Police Deputy Spokesperson, Sub-Inspector, Frank Black said the 11 people were travelling in a Toyota Isis registration number RU 7992. He said the driver of the vehicle is at large but left the car after it […]
Three Malawians of Asian origin who were convicted for kidnapping a five-year-old boy Tahil Shail of Asian extract have been sentenced to four years imprisonment each and that they be deported to their country of origin soon after completing their sentence. The sentence was handed by Blantyre chief resident magistrate Simeon Mdeza, who predided over the case […]
Three Malawians of Asian origin have been convicted for kidnapping a five-year-old boy Tahil Shail of Asian extract. The three Pakistanis were arrested on December 11 2018 when they abducted a five-year-old child Tahil Shail of Asian extract demanded a K3 billion ransom from his parents. Blantyre Magistrate Court heard from prosecution that the kidnappers […]
A report on the inquiry by the State-funded Malawi Human Rights Commission (MHRC) into the controversial discharge of a Pakistani from a defilement case in March this year has established that Malawi Police Service prosecutor Sub Inspector Ishamel Abubast allegedly altered details of the case to defeat justice that led to accused acquittal. Muhammad Hanif […]
Allegations have surfaced of sexual abuse and inhumane treatment against a staff member of Panda Supermarket and Bakery of Pakistan origin operating in Lilongwe, towards some Malawians which include allegations of rape of a 12 year old girl. The issue came to light when Minister of Gender, Community Development and Social Welfare, Patricia Kaliati on […]
The Centre for Human Rights Education Advice and Advocacy (Chreaa) has written acting Inspector General of Police Duncan Mwapasa to re-arrest a Pakistani national 57-year-old Muhammad Hanif who was dubiously discharge in a sexual assault case whose victim is a 14-year-old Malawian school girl. Hanif is alleged to have defiled the girl in Mudi Residential […]
A Pakistani national Mohsin Junan Farook, 29, will spend three-and-half-years in Malawi prison after being convicted for stealing groceries worth millions of kwacha in Limbe in Blantyre. He was sentenced by Limbe Magistrate Court where he pleaded not guilty. The State paraded three witnesses to prove its case. In a statement, Limbe Police Station prosecutor […]
Blantyre Magistrate Court has heard that three Pakistanis arrested on December 11 2018 when they abducted a five-year-old child Tahil Shail of Asian extract demanded a K3 billion ransom from his parents. At the openingof the case, the State read a charge sheet which indicates the kidnappers demanded that the boy’s father Mohammed Shail, 34, […]
An abducted child of Asian extract has been found just days after he was taken away from Mpingwe in Blantyre and police have arrested seven people including the master minder, the son in-law of the father of the five-year-old boy. Tahil Shail was abducted on December 11 and the abductors were demanding ransom from the […]
The Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) in conjunction with the Malawi Police Service arrested 20 people from Pakistan and their Pakistani agents in the cpuntry amidst reports of systemic corruption in Malawi’s immigration department, involving the alleged issuing of fraudulent travel documents, work permits and citizenship rights to non-nationals in return for backhanders. In a brief […]
Malawi police have finally arrested Cotton Ginners Limited (CGL) Chief Executive Officer Abdul Yasin Reiman who fled the country after his company swindled local commercial banks of about K20.9 billion . Reiman, who sneaked out of the country in June this year and was allegedly hiding in his home country of Pakistan, was arrested on […]
Blantyre-based Pakistani national Muhammed Jawad faces arrest after Blantyre Magistrate’s Court has issued an arrest order for his failure to appear before court in criminal proceedings. In Augusr 2015, Blantyre Magistrate’s Court convicted and fined Jawad , 26 K950 000 for illegal possession of foreign currency amounting to $269 970 (about K198 million at the current exchange […]
The Zomba Chief Resident Magistrate Court has sent s Pakistan n ational Zeeshan Jaral Raja to 16 years in jail for sexual assualt on a 15 year old girl. State Prosecutor Assistant Superintendent Josophine Chigawa told the court that Jaral Raja a businessman trading as Asante Cash and Carry at Liwonde Township had been sexually abusing the […]
A Malawian man Thando Mhango has obtained court order demanding the arrest of a Pakistan mother Salma Sattar for allegedly abducting his child and for discriminating him on grounds of race, color and religion. Sattar is the mother to Mhango’s girlfriend of one and half years, Aisha Kali, 22. The two started dating in 2014. However, […]
Barely after a few weeks after donating seven computers to Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH), the one the country’s major referral hospitals seems to be at the heart of the Pakistan Welfare Association (PAW) as they have also donated benches worth MK4 million. PAW outgoing Chairperson Shabbir Bheda said the hospital remains the main focus for […]
The Pakistan Welfare Association on Tuesday donated seven high tech computers at Malawi’s largest referral hospital, Kamuzu Central Hospital (KCH). The Association’s Chairperson Shabbir Bheda said they extended their good gesture following a request by the hospital’s management that they are in dire need of the computers. “We couldn’t do otherwise because all along, we […]
A Pakistani national who was convicted by Blantyre Magistrate Court for illegal possession of foreign currency amounting to $269 970 (about K154 million at the current exchange rate) has walked free from court after paying a fine of K950 000 to escape harsh Malawi prison sentence. Muhammad Jawad, 24, who faced charges of money laundering, […]