Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi has warned Malaysia's leftist groups not take advantage of the issue involving Siti Aishah Abdul Wahab to advance their ideology here.

He said that although the Home Ministry does not consider Siti Aishah a threat anymore, it hopes that she will not be involved in any "roadshows" if she comes home, Utusan Malaysia reported.

"Leftists, like those who sent Siti Aishah's sister (Kamar Mahtum) to the airport en route London are advised not to continue their 1970s struggles which are irrelevant today.

"The Home Ministry hopes that Siti Aishah will return home to rest as she is now ill.

zahid hamidi astro awani 101011 "Don't hold a road show to spread this absurd ideology. She should repent and abandon her activities," Zahid ( left ) was quoted as saying.

Siti Aishah, 69 reportedly joined a leftist movement after moving London for her studies in 1968 was on Oct 25, rescued by police from "domestic enslavement" in London flat under as part of a Maoist group.

She was reported to have recently suffered from a stroke.

Meanwhile, the Malaysian High Commissioner to the United Kingdom Zakaria Sulong told Astro Awani that Siti Aishah, 69, and elder sister Kamar Mahtum have met at a "secret location".

He said that the location was kept confidential by Scotland Yard, and that the 30-minute meeting was only between the sisters.

Kampung spirit alive, well

Awani reported that Kamar Mahtum had in the meeting advised Siti Aishah to write to the family.

Kamar Mahtum flew to London on Tuesday accompanied by activist Hishamuddin Rais, who hails from the same village in Jelebu, Negri Sembilan, in hopes of meeting her sister whom she had not seen for 40 years.

NONE Hishammuddin ( right ) was on self-imposed exile in London in the 1970s, following a crackdown on student activists in Malaysia at the time.

Siti Aishah, an Irish national and a Briton-were reportedly rescued by Scotland Yard from "enslavement" by a reported Moist group leader Aravinda Balakrishnan and his wife Chanda.

However, PKR senator Syed Husin Ali, who studied in London in the late 1960s, said that Balakrishnan was known to students then as a Singaporean.

Utusan also reported that the last the family heard from Siti Aishah was in 1981 when she visited the home of her younger brother Mohd Tahir, then working in London.

Mohd Tahir said Siti Aishah, the 11 th out of 12 children, was accompanied by Balakrishnan and the Irish national who also police rescued