Wednesday April 29, 2009
Nik Aziz’s PAs blamed for friction
Compiled by SIM LEOI LEOI, TAN SIN CHOW and A. RAMAN
THE son of PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat has blamed his father’s personal assistants for the friction with party president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang on the matter of a unity government.
Utusan Malaysia quoted Nik Abduh, who is also the deputy Kelantan PAS Youth chief, as saying that the assistants had given his father the wrong impression on the concept for the sake of political mileage.
“So, the concept of a unity government that he rejected is the one that he’s been made to understand by assistants who claim to be knowledgeable. They are happy to create friction between my father and the party president.
“They thought they were doing good but they are actually lost. May they receive retribution for their evil deed from Allah!” he wrote in his blog.
Nik Abduh said it was evident that his father had changed his mind on the unity government because he stopped issuing statements against it after meeting with Abdul Hadi and 10 PAS ulamas recently.
The Kelantan Mentri Besar had earlier written in the same blog that if Barisan Nasional wanted to form a unity government with PAS, it should consider giving up the senior posts of finance and education ministers.
Students skip school for beach picnics
> Kosmo! highlighted a group of students in Kuantan who had made a popular beach there their picnic spot while they played truant from school.
According to the tabloid, both male and female students had often been spotted bathing in the sea and hugging each other, oblivious to tourists and picnickers.
Religious teacher involved in mobile prepaid card scam
> Harian Metro published the case of a religious teacher who managed to cheat 10 individuals of more than RM2mil through a “profit-sharing” handphone prepaid card scam.
One of the victims, who wanted to be known only as Azman, said he was introduced by a friend to the “ustaz”, who offered to supply him with prepaid cards for sale as low as RM9.60 for each card with RM10 in calls.
“When he later offered me an opportunity to invest RM200,000 in his business, I agreed. He also promised that he would return my profits in the next few days. However, he has disappeared,” Azman said.
Other News & Views is compiled from the vernacular newspapers (Bahasa Malaysia, Chinese and Tamil dailies). As such, stories are grouped according to the respective language/medium. Where a paragraph begins with a sub-heading, it denotes a separate news item.
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