Faulty touchscreen for my iPad mini

Question

The entire left column of my iPad mini is faulty. My concrete evidence is that when i use safari, and intend to close the first tab, closest to the left side, the "x" is totally not responsive. Other evidences such as area near to the left of the screen, actions taken are either erratic or not as responsive; one of the examples is when I type and intend to change from ABC to 123, it totally failed to respond at all, same goes to the "shift" key. I did what I need to do; hard reset, wipe screen with damp cloth, tear off the screen protector, with practically all the possible steps I can do, it still is faulty. Went to the nearest Apple reseller, the iPad mini was somehow okay on the spot. Returned home to the same problem again. Looked like it had some sort of temper.
Anyway, the faulty area on the left is exapandable; sometimes the slim area near the left can stretch a few centimeters towards the right. Meaning bigger area of total unresponsive touch screen. I pulled my finger across the screen to check the sensitivity. I pulled it across and to the right, the home screen retracted as soon as the last millimeter of my skin is off the side of the screen. I did the same thing, pulled it across to the left, some part of my finger was still there, and it already retracted. As mentioned, at times when the faulty area expands, it becomes even more obvious that it stops responding; around 1-2cm from the left of the screen has totally no response to my finger, which is still there dragging on the screen. 1-2cm is the peak of the problem, which only stays until I sleep/wake or restart the iPad mini, and then the problem minimizes again.
The consistent problem is a very small area, which is the entire left side of the screen, but it is only completely visible and obvious when I close tabs in Safari. Help please? Is there a possibility that it's the digitzer that is faulty? The staff at the Apple reseller asked me to use it for another week to confirm problem. It began to have this problem 2 days ago

Answer 1

There's nothing under Malaysia in that link
Yes I did. The warranty is valid. The trouble is getting to Apple's direct channels. The authorised resellers here in my town are only responsible for the products they sold by themselves. I ordered mine from the website and had the iPad mini delivered to my doorstep, not from the local authorised resellers. That's why the local authorised resellers are not responsible for my iPad mini and they would charge me a fee for delivering it to the headquarters in Kuala Lumpur.
If I were to fly in myself to KL, it would cost me 120USD for return tickets. Ouch!