GE13: ‘Chinese can never control Parliament’

The Chinese will never be a dominant political force in Malaysia, even under Pakatan Rakyat, said PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu.

As both MCA and DAP would be vying for the limited number of Chinese-majority seats, they would only be eliminating each other, he said.

Only one would emerge winner in each seat, and the number of Chinese-majority seats remained the same, he added.

As such, it would be impossible for the Chinese to wield greater influence in Parliament, he said at a ceramah in Kupang on Thursday night.

It was Mohamad's inaugural ceramah in Kedah after PAS announced him as its Pendang parliamentary candidate.

Mohamad also pointed out that Pakatan Rakyat fielded 23 more Malay Muslim candidates compared with Barisan Nasional in the 2008 general election.

Court strikes out Mat Sabu's suit against Utusan over Bukit Kepong

Utusan Melayu (Malaysia) Bhd has succeeded in striking out a defamation suit filed by PAS deputy president Mohamad Sabu over comments about the Bukit Kepong tragedy.

In the lawsuit filed on Sept 14, Mohamad named Utusan Melayu and Utusan Malaysia's group editor-in-chief Datuk Aziz Ishak as defendants.

High Court judge Justice John Louis O'Hara on Tuesday allowed Utusan Melayu's application to strike out the lawsuit in which Mohamad claimed that Aziz had on Aug 27 and 28 allowed the publication of defamatory words against him.

Azizan: Mat Sabu should debate with Muhyiddin, not Khairy

Azizan has likened a Khairy-Mohamad debate to a football match between world champions Brazil and Kedah’s team in Tokai, a small village in the northern state.


Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak scoffed at Umno Youth chief Khairy Jamaluddin today for putting himself forward as a possible candidate to debate with Mohamad Sabu over the Bukit Kepong tragedy, saying the former could not match up to the PAS deputy president.

Instead, Azizan agreed with Mohamad that he should take on Umno deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin for the challenge.

Police complete investigation paper on Mat Sabu

Police have completed the investigation paper on Mohamad Sabu in relation to remarks allegedly made during a speech last month, national news agency, Bernama, reported today.

The PAS deputy president (picture), more popularly known as Mat Sabu, had touched on the 1950 Bukit Kepong incident in which he said that Mat Indera’s contributions to the nation’s independence struggle had been forgotten following Umno’s alleged whitewashing of the country’s history.

Dr M: Karpal the biggest winner in PAS polls

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said today that the DAP’s Karpal Singh is the actual winner in last weekend’s PAS elections because he claimed the party had abandoned its Islamic principles.

Dr Mahathir added that PAS’s new push for a welfare state was proof that the Islamist party had abandoned its fight for an Islamic state.

The former prime minister accused PAS of forsaking its struggle to implement Islamic and hudud laws just to appease its Pakatan Rakyat (PR) coalition partner DAP.

“The person who won big did not attend the muktamar and is not even a PAS member. That person is Karpal Singh... his fight against PAS’s plans to build an Islamic state which would have enforced hudud law has been achieved,” he wrote in a blog posting today.

Professionals, ulama in tussle for control

Delegates at the 52nd Pas Youth assembly at Dewan Majlis Bandaraya Shah Alam yesterday. A total of 650 delegates took part in the voting on the second day of the wing’s muktamar. Incumbent Nasruddin Hassan won the post of Pas Youth head unopposed while Nik Abduh, the son of Pas spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat, won the deputy Youth head contest, defeating three other candidates. The delegates also elected 12 new committee members for the 2011-2013 term.

IN a subtle tone, Pas Dewan Ulama chief Datuk Harun Taib said the party had always opened its arms to professionals.

"The ulama has never closed its doors against professionals in or outside the party in upholding the teachings of Islam," said Harun, in his opening speech to about 400 Dewan Ulama delegates at Taman Melewar here yesterday. His text was read out by his deputy, Datuk Ahmad Yaakob.

This was a telling speech, coinciding with another important contest for the post of deputy president in the party.

PAS election results out by 10am tomorrow

PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat with his deputy Datuk Harun Din (left), at the polling booth June 3, 2011.


PAS election committee chairman Datuk Abdul Halim Abdul Rahman said today the party’s official election results are expected to be announced by 10am tomorrow.

Party president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang returned unopposed for the fifth consecutive term while incumbent Nasharudin Mat Isa will be locked in a three-cornered fight against Datuk Tuan Ibrahim Tuan Man and Mohamad Sabu.

Mat Sabu leads PAS deputy president race

PAS central committee member Mohamad Sabu is leading in the race for the post of PAS deputy president, topping the nominations received by its incumbent Nasharudin Mat Isa over the weekend.

The former Kuala Kedah MP last tried for the PAS number two spot in 2009 but lost to Nasharudin.

PAS will hold its party polls during its 57th “muktamar” (annual general meeting) at Kolej Universiti Islam Zulkifli Muhammad, Taman Melewar, Gombak, early next month.

The deadline for nominations is May 15.

PAS party election Nasharudin may find challenger in Mat Sabu

Mohamad Sabu(R) is outspoken and enjoys a streetfighter image.Nasharudin Mat Isa (L) is known as a non-confrontational politician

IN a party characterised by fiery ceramah, Nasharudin Mat Isa is not a dazzling speaker.

More ominously for the non-confrontational politician, he has attracted an assortment of critics who are loudly suggesting -- ahead of the June 3-5 muktamar-cum-election -- that a contrasting personality should replace him.

They have just the man for the job; Mohamad Sabu is outspoken and enjoys a streetfighter image. He has been detained under the Internal Security Act twice and accused of khalwat (close proximity) some years back.

Fittingly, the former Kuala Kedah member of parliament is keen.