Making sense of the Dinar


PAS, which has never moved away from its ambition of setting up an Islamic state, obviously wants to prove its commitment to institutionalising its religious programmes and agenda.

WHICHEVER way you look at it, the fact remains that the PAS-led Kelantan state government has introduced a new system of currency. The state government calls it an alternative but it certainly wants the people to use it.

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