Saya menerima khabar duka dari Indonesia tentang kembalinya ka rahmatullah Almarhum Abdurrahman Wahid atau lebih dikenali dengan panggilan Gus Dur, mantan presiden Indonesia dan tokoh Islam yang tersohor.

Saya berkesempatan mengunjungi Almarhum di rumahnya bulan lalu dan juga di hospital. Meskipun beliau uzur, namun Almarhum kelihatan ceria dan prihatin bertanyakan ehwal saya dan Malaysia.

Persahabatan kami terjalin selama puluhan tahun. Almarhum selaku Presiden, menerima kunjungan Azizah di Istana Presiden sambil melahirkan simpati tatkala saya merengkok di rumah pasong Sungai Buloh.

Dua tahun lalu, Almarhum menyampaikan pidato khas dalam Kongres Keadilan di Seremban bersama Ibu Shinta. Beliau turut melapangkan masa tatkala kempen Pilihanraya Kecil Parlimen Permatang Pauh tahun lepas dan turut berkunjung ke rumah di Bukit Segambut.

Saya dan keluarga serta seluruh pimpinan Keadilan merakamkan ucapan takziah buat kaum keluarga Almarhum. Kami mendoakan agar ruh beliau dirahmati oleh Allah SWT dan ditempatkan di kalangan para solehin.

Al-Fatihah.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

Reading a booklet from Barry Wain, ‘Najib’s Challenge: Glory or Oblivion’ published by Research for Social Advancement (Refsa), it gave us an understanding that the newly appointed Prime Minister has a lot of hard work to do to gather the support of the people.

Being a politician who have faced pressures from the oppositions and bad impressions from the international media, he must find a way, urgently, to arrest the erosion in the government’s electoral appeal, or he will make history as the man who led one of the world’s longest-governing parties to defeat.

Moreover, Najib brings to the job so much political baggage that it has threatened to derail his prime ministerial ambitions. He has been linked to a Mongolian woman, 28, who was shot and blown up with specialized C4 plastic explosives in Malaysia in 2006. The woman’s former lover, an adviser to Najib, was cleared of ordering her death in a protracted court case that drew harsh public criticism and left vital questions unanswered. Two members of an elite police bodyguard unit assigned to Najib, who were asked by the adviser to “do something” about the woman because she was blackmailing him, had to answer murder charges. (more…)

From The Star Online

The Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) must step up its probe against those who had benefited from the Port Klang Free Zone (PKFZ) scandal, said Social Care Foundation chairman Tan Sri Robert Phang.

He said the multi-billion ringgit PKFZ fiasco had evolved into an issue that would affect the Government and the nation’s integrity in the international economic arena.

“The Government, therefore, must allow the police or the commission to take appropriate action against anyone, including those holding high office,” he said in a statement yesterday. (more…)

Dari TV Selangor

Ketua Angkatan Muda Keadilan, Shamsul Iskandar Md Akin mendesak Suruhanjaya Pencegahan Rasuah Malaysia (SPRM) tidak menggunakan alasan lapuk bagi mengelak melaksanakan tanggungjawabnya berhubung kes penyiasat persendirian P. Balasubramaniam.
SPRM hari ini dipetik berkata Bala perlu tampil memberi kenyataan kepada badan itu berhubung dakwaan pembabitan kerabat keluarga Perdana Menteri Najib Razak berhubung kes Altantuya Sharibuu. (more…)