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#Showbiz: Actor Afiq Muiz's wife seeks divorce by way of fasakh

KUALA LUMPUR: Failing to provide her with "nafkah" from 2021 until October last year, wife of actor Afiq Muiz, Pachara Apin has filed for divorce by way of fasakh at the Petaling Lower Syariah Court in Subang Bestari, Selangor, today.

Syarie lawyer Suriati Ab Ghani, who was representing 32-year-old Pachara, said her client had filed for divorce on Aug 26 last year.

"However, her husband (the 31-year-old actor) had failed to show up in court and could not be located, forcing Pachara to apply for divorce by way of fasakh in October," she told reporters after the proceedings which took place before Syarie judge Abdul Malik Soleh.

Fasakh is the dissolution of marriage due to any valid reason under the shariah law such as when a spouse has disappeared without a trace for more than a year.

The court set April 6 for the next proceedings for Pachara, whose Muslim name is Nur Aaira Mahdeya, to give her statement.

Last November, Afiq lodged a police report claiming that Pachara had slandered him by making a statement on social media platforms, alleging that he was a wife beater.

The couple married on March 27, 2019.

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