PAS Now Struggles For DAP, Says Dr M

KUALA LUMPUR, May 8 (Bernama) -- Present-day PAS is not the party of its early leaders, with former enemies embraced as close allies, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said Sunday.
The former Prime Minister said that PAS no longer focused on upholding Islam and was more concerned with defending the DAP.
The thinking of the Malays in PAS now was far different from what it was under past presidents like Prof Burhanuddin Al-Helmi and Datuk Asri Muda, he said when opening the Cheras Umno division delegates meeting here.
Dr Mahathir said that PAS spiritual leader Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat "once could not bear to even look" at DAP chairman Karpal Singh for opposing the setting up of an Islamic state.
Now, he had become a stout defender of the DAP, Dr Mahathir said.
He said the split in the Malay community had begun with PAS when ulamas quit Umno to form the Islamic party.
"The reason (they left) was that people conversant in English were given a (high) place while those fluent in Arabic felt left out," Dr Mahathir said.

tunku : pas has dropped all of its struggle just because of few leaders in pas that had became the puppet of dap dan anwar. dap and anwar had brilliantly 'captured' pas. pas is more dap than the dap at this moment.now there are leaders in pas that willing to 'die' for dap leaders. shame on pas.