Parents disown daughter

Parents disown daughter

Agence France-Presse Kuala Lumpur

An elderly couple, who are members of the Islamic party Parti Islam se-Malaysia (PAS), have disowned and evicted their daughter and family for supporting Malaysia's ruling National Front, a news report said on Sunday.

The parents of Fadzilah Abu Hassan Shari, 40, acted after they failed to persuade her to switch allegiance to PAS days before the March 21 election, the New Sunday Times newspaper said.

Fadzilah, a resident of Sik, in the northern Malaysian state of Kedah, was quoted as saying she was shocked by the decision to disown her as a punishment for going against the parents' wishes.

She and her husband Mahdzir Che Din along with their six children are now sheltering in a vacant hut nearby.

Her eldest daughter, Maizura, 20, said her grandmother's support to PAS was so intense that she demanded that they vote PAS when they grow up.

"If you vote the other side (National Front), I will not bless your decision," she quoted her grandmother as saying.

PAS retained control in its northern stronghold of Kelantan state with the slimmest of majorities after a recount, but lost power in neighboring Terengganu and was thumped in elections to the federal parliament by the National Front.