Taking PAS into the future

DATUK Kamaruddin Jaafar has risen steadily through the ranks of PAS sinceswitching from Umno to the Islamist party 1999. The Tumpat MP was elected intothe party central committee with the third highest number of votes in 2003, andin this year's elections, secured the second highest number of votes.The soft spoken and mild mannered 54-year-old former Universiti KebangsaanMalaysia political science lecturer is now the party's secretary-general.In an interview with NICK LEONG and IZATUN SHARI, , Kamaruddin touched ona variety of issues confronting PAS since it lost badly in the 2004 general election.Kamaruddin also gave his frank opinions on the issues of Islam state, hududlaw, non-Muslims, policies on gender, entertainment and tudung and how theparty was coping with controversial statements by PAS' spiritual adviser DatukNik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat and president Datuk Seri Abdul Hadi Awang. 

Question: PAS delegates voted in many new faces in the last muktamar. What is the significance?