PERHATIAN kini tertumpu kepada muktamar PAS ke-55. Walaupun terdapat saingan yang mungkin sengit untuk jawatan timbalan presiden parti, di peringkat Dewan Pemuda PAS, keadaan nampaknya tenang. Jawatan ketua Dewan Pemuda PAS dimenangi tanpa bertanding oleh Nasrudin Hassan at Tantawi. The Nut Graph sempat berbual dengan Nasrudin, menerusi e-mel, untuk mengetahui corak kepimpinannya kelak, serta perasaan […]
Archives for June 2009
CIJ opposes calls for Utusan’s suspension
By Zedeck SiewPETALING JAYA, 4 June 2009: The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) has opposed calls to suspend Utusan Malaysia or charge its writers with the Sedition Act. “Freedom of expression thrives in an environment where members of the public are free to agree and disagree among themselves, instead of censuring each other with restrictive laws,” said […]
Ulama leadership needed for Islam’s sake
By Deborah LohKUALA LUMPUR, 4 June 2009: Debates at the PAS Youth muktamar today were heavily tinged with a pro-ulama flavour. However, there were no strident calls for the PAS deputy president’s post to be given to a cleric at the main party elections tomorrow. Speakers today, however, upheld the concept of leadership by ulama with some […]
PAS ulama move to assert leadership
By Shanon ShahCorrected on 4 June 09 at 10.50pm SHAH ALAM, 4 Jun 2009: PAS’s Ulama wing today approved a motion to get the party’s central leadership to ensure that the posts of president, deputy president and at least one vice-president are held by ulama. However, incoming ulama chief Datuk Harun Taib said at a press conference […]
Third influenza A(H1NI) case detected
KUALA LUMPUR, 4 June 2009: A Malaysian student who returned from the US after a holiday has become the third person to have contracted Influenza A(H1N1) in the country. Health director-general Tan Sri Dr Mohd Ismail Merican said the 23-year-old student arrived at the KL International Airport (KLIA) on Malaysia Airlines flight MH091 at 7.15am […]
Nik Aziz’s son re-elected into PAS Youth
By Deborah LohKUALA LUMPUR, 4 June 2009: The son of PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat was among four others re-elected into the PAS Youth central working committee for the 2009 to 2011 term. Nik Mohd Abduh Nik Abdul Aziz, an ustaz or religious teacher, garnered 194 votes, the second highest after another religious […]
PKR councillors snub MPSP president’s swearing in
BUKIT MERTAJAM, 4 June 2009: Seberang Perai municipal councillors from PKR snubbed the swearing-in ceremony of new president Mokhtar Mohd Jait today, claiming that the party was not consulted on the appointment. PKR whip and councillor Johari Kassim said eight of nine councillors from the party stayed away from the ceremony as they were unhappy […]
Ahmad Ramzi claims trial over threatening SMS
KUALA TERENGGANU, 4 June 2009: Politician Datuk Dr Ahmad Ramzi Mohd Zubir pleaded not guilty in the Sessions Court here to four counts of sending threatening messages through the short messaging service (SMS) to three Terengganu state assemblypersons two months ago. The political secretary to former Terengganu Menteri Besar Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh looked calm […]
BN’s new approach for Manik Urai
MUAR, 4 June 2009: The Barisan Nasional (BN) will have only one command centre to coordinate its component parties’ campaigns in the Manik Urai state by-election in Kelantan on 14 July, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said today. The deputy prime minister said this was part of the BN’s new approach in facing any by-election. “This […]
PAS Supporters Club split
By Deborah LohKUALA LUMPUR, 4 June 2009: The PAS Supporters Club or Kelab Penyokong PAS (KPP) for non-Muslims has been separated into Indian and Chinese clubs, but this has not received final approval from the party’s central working committee. Outgoing PAS Youth chief Salahuddin Ayub said the separation was a trial to find the best mechanism for […]
