‘PAS muktamar is all about solidarity with Palestine’

PETALING JAYA: The PAS annual general assembly (muktamar) this year will be in solidarity with the struggle of freeing Palestine, says PAS secretary-general Datuk Seri Takiyuddin Hassan.

The three-day muktamar at the IDCC Convention Centre in Shah Alam will run from tomorrow until Sunday.

“All content during the 69th PAS annual muktamar will be conceptualised in line with solidarity with the Palestine struggle – beginning with the president’s policy speech, the programmes lined up and the launch of the welfare and development assistance for Gaza by PAS Relief and fellow NGOs,” he said in a statement yesterday.

“Perikatan Nasional leaders, local political parties and local NGOs as well as foreign political party leaders and international NGOs including those from Palestine, Turkiye, Middle East, West Asia and this region have confirmed their attendance.

“I also extend my invitation to all Malaysians who are concerned with the struggle of Palestine to follow the happenings at the muktamar, be it through online channels or as observers, as the muktamar will be held in a transparent manner.

“PAS has also retracted the invitations to a few emissaries of countries which have openly supported the actions of the Israeli-Zionist regime in their attacks against Gaza and West Bank recently. “PAS’ standing with the Palestinian struggle is a solidarity manifestation of the party to the freedom of Palestine land,” said Takiyuddin, adding that about 5,000 attendees, including PAS delegates and observers, are expected to converge at the muktamar.

This is the first muktamar since PAS became part of the Perikatan Nasional coalition, which now rules Kelantan, Terengganu, Kedah and Perlis.

A by-election for Terengganu’s Kemaman parliamentary seat will be held on Dec 2 after the Terengganu Election Court nullified the victory of Che Alias Hamid of PAS, who had been declared the winner of the seat in the 15th General Election.