PEKAN: Tengku Panglima Besar Tengku Hassanal Ibrahim Alam Shah will be proclaimed as Tengku Mahkota Pahang, replacing his father Al-Sultan Abdullah Ibni Sultan Ahmad Shah, who is now the Sultan of Pahang.

Al-Sultan Abdullah said he decided to appoint his eldest son as the heir apparent to the Pahang throne after holding a meeting with the state royal council.