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Sep

Realmild- 70% Atas Nama Dr Mahathir

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Categories: Agenda Baru, Anwar, Catatan, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Mahkamah and Malaysia

Sekian lama juak Umno memfitnah saya kononnya punyai kepentingan menguasai syarikat gergasi MRCB melalui Realmild. Maka pada tahun 1999, dalam perakuan di mahkamah tinggi KL, saya mengesahkan bahawa pemegang saham terbesar Realmild; 70 peratus adalah atas nama Dr Mahathir sendiri. Dan saya tidak punyai sebarang kepentingan dalam syarikat tersebut.

Hanya setelah pendedahan tersebut, Dr Mahathir segera meminta Datuk Seri Abdul Rahman Maidin mengambil alih saham tersebut, dan ketika itu baru disebut sebagai milik Umno. Maka ia mengesahkan perakuan saya sebelumnya.

Hal sedemikian terbongkar semula dalam keterangan Abdul Rahman Maidin dan Datuk Nazri Abdullah dalam prosiding mahkamah dalam kes saman Datuk Khalid Ahmad terhadap Datuk Abdul Rahman Maidin. Saya bersyukur kehazrat Allah kerana fitnah terhadap saya yang sekian lama menjerat pemikiran sebahagian pendukung Umno kini terbongkar.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

Sep

Memperkukuh Kekuatan dan Perkembangan Terbaru Dari Sarawak

By Anwar Ibrahim 2 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Anwar, Catatan, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia and Pakatan Rakyat

Sepanjang lawatan saya ke Sarawak, kemajuan pasukan kerja rakan-rakan pimpinan Keadilan di Sarawak begitu membanggakan. Dalam rapat khas bersama pimpinan negeri petang tadi, saya sempat meneliti draf manifesto. Tumpuan adalah isu royalti minyak, pendidikan percuma, ruang kegiatan seni dan budaya semua suku kaum. YB Fuziah turut memimpin perbincangan mengenai persiapan jentera pilihanraya.

Ramai juga yang bertanyakan pandangan saya berhubung desas desus perletakan jawatan Ketua Menteri yang sudah lama memerintah, Tan Sri Abdul Taib Mahmud. Bagi saya ianya sengaja dihebahkan. Pastinya menyedari suasana dan budaya BN, usaha akan dilakukan untuk mengerah jentera parti mereka membuat ikrar menyokong kepimpinan beliau.

Bagi kita, isu kepimpinan bukan soal peribadi. Maka isu perletakan jawatan tidak relevan. Perubahan kepimpinan sepertimana yang berlaku sebelum ini tidak menjanjikan sebarang perubahan dasar. Sistem sama terus diamalkan- angkuh dengan kuasa, rasuah berleluasa dan tidak ada kepedulian terhadap penderitaan rakyat. Makanya tanggungjawab kita yang bergerak dalamKeadilan dan muafakat Pakatan Rakyat, adalah untuk menjelaskan agenda kepada Rakyat dan menumpukan usaha menuntut reformasi – yakni menolak kezaliman dan menegak keadilan.

ANWAR IBRAHIM

Aug

Melawan Politik Perkauman Sempit

By Anwar Ibrahim 7 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia and Pakatan Rakyat

KENYATAAN AKHBAR PIMPINAN PAKATAN RAKYAT
26 OGOS 2010

Pakatan Rakyat sedar wujudnya satu muslihat politik oleh pimpinan Umno-BN untuk mengapikan sentimen perkauman sempit dan agama bertujuan memecahbelahkan keharmonian masyarakat. Politik usang bersifat peras ugut dan memesongkan fakta ini digunakan oleh pimpinan Umno-BN kerana mereka berada dalam keadaan terdesak untuk meneruskan kelangsungan kuasa mereka. Demi mencapai cita-cita politik tersebut pelbagai jentera kerajaan seperti BTN dan media seumpama Utusan Malaysia diperkuda untuk menggugat kesejahteraan rakyat.
Berhadapan serangan bertali arus itu, Pakatan Rakyat tetap beriltizam untuk melaksanakan Perubahan demi kemaslahatan rakyat keseluruhannya. Kita beriltizam untuk memastikan keharmonian dan perpaduan masyarakat dapat diperteguh serta politik perkauman sempit akan sirna dari negara ini.
Pakatan Rakyat menghormati perjuangan parti masing-masing dalam Permuafakatan Pakatan Rakyat. Permuafakatan ini sememangnya berlandaskan Dasar Bersama Pakatan Rakyat yang telahpun disepakati.
Dasar Pakatan Rakyat menyatakan:
“Pakatan Rakyat bertekad untuk menyemai persefahaman dan perpaduan di kalangan rakyat berteraskan prinsip memelihara kepentingan bersama. Perpaduan negara mesti mencerminkan kesepakatan, persefahaman serta muafakat sejati antara kaum, budaya dan agama.”
Kita akui sememangnya terdapat perbezaan di antara komponen Pakatan Rakyat, walaupun begitu kita tuntas menggalakkan perbincangan dan bersikap terbuka. Ini berbeza sekali jika dibandingkan dengan politik dalaman BN yang mana komponennya sering bertelagah dan bersikap menyembunyikan segala permasalahan.
Pakatan Rakyat tidak mempunyai keraguan untuk tetap bersatu melawan kemungkaran dan penganiayaan Umno-Barisan Nasional terhadap rakyat. Kami beriltizam untuk menentukan hala tuju baru buat rakyat dan negara ini. Menjelang 53 tahun kemerdekaan, sudah tiba masanya negara ini meninggalkan politik perkauman sempit yang seumpama barah merosak masyarakat. Pakatan Rakyat merasa bertanggungjawab untuk memaknai kembali Kemerdekaan yang berlandaskan Politik Baru yang lebih matang dan mengutamakan kemaslahatan rakyat serta negara ini.
Kita percaya antara lainnya serangan ini adalah untuk menutup kegagalan kerajaan Umno-BN menguruskan khazanah negara seumpama skandal rompakan saham untuk rakyat termiskin bernilai RM 52 billion. Kita menggesa satu Suruhanjaya Di Raja ditubuhkan bagi menyiasat kehilangan hak rakyat tersebut.
YB Dato Seri Anwar Ibrahim,
Ketua Umum Keadilan

YB Ust Nasharuddin Mat Isa
Timbalan Presiden Pas

PKR YAB Lim Guan Eng
Setiausaha AgungDAP

Antara Kandungan Dasar Bersama Pakatan Rakyat. Iltizam untuk melaksanakan Politik Baru:

1. Demokrasi Telus dan Tulen

A – Negara Perlembagaan dan Kedaulatan Undang-Undang
Perlembagaan Persekutuan merupakan penzahiran cita-cita dan harapan rakyat Malaysia yang merdeka. Di dalamnya hak asasi setiap rakyat termasuk hak agama, bahasa, kerakyatan dan budaya dijamin sepenuhnya. Justeru, Pakatan Rakyat beriltizam memartabatkan semangat dan peruntukan Perlembagaan Persekutuan.
Pakatan Rakyat akan:
i. Mempertahankan Perlembagaan Persekutuan, Islam sebagai agama bagi Persekutuan dan agama-agama lain boleh diamalkan dengan aman dan damai di mana-mana di negara ini serta melindungi kedudukan istimewa orang Melayu dan anak negeri mana-mana antara Negeri Sabah dan Sarawak dan kepentingan sah kaum-kaum lain sejajar dengan Perkara 153

ii. Mempertahankan peranan dan tanggungjawab institusi raja berperlembagaan.

iii. Memartabatkan pengunaan Bahasa Melayu selari dengan Perkara 152 Perlembagaan dan memperluaskan Bahasa Melayu sebagai lingua franca serantau, melindungi dan memperkukuhkan penggunaan bahasa ibunda semua kaum.
iv. Memansuhkan Akta Keselamatan Dalam Negeri dan undang-undang yang membenarkan tahanan tanpa dibicara. Serentak dengan itu mengesyorkan pembatalan semua pengisytiharan Darurat yang masih berkuatkuasa.
v. Memansuhkan atau meminda semua akta dan undang-undang yang zalim serta melanggar hak asasi.
vi. Menjamin semangat persekutuan serta hubungan yang adil di antara Persekutuan dengan negeri-negeri, terutama Sabah dan Sarawak.

Aug

Malaysia Needs New Property Policy

By Anwar Ibrahim 8 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Sidenotes and Yusmadi

From The Sun
By Himanshu Bhatt

Malaysia needs a new property rights policy to safeguard its population against rising prices and “market excesses” beyond the means of many people, Balik Pulau MP Yusmadi Yusoff said today.

Joining the debate on national housing, Yusmadi said the extremely high prices have denied many the opportunity to own homes.

He said that despite the quota system for bumiputras, many are still confined to their own kampungs and categorised as squatters because the land the villages stand on is owned by someone else.

In particular, Yusmadi said, the residents of Balik Pulau, both Malays and non-Malays, have become “mere spectators” as luxury housing projects way beyond their affordability come up in the area. Continue reading ‘Malaysia Needs New Property Policy’

Aug

Polis Akan Ambil Keterangan DSAI

By Anwar Ibrahim 5 Comments

Categories: Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Malaysia and Pakatan Rakyat

MAKLUMAN MEDIA
17 OGOS 2010

Adalah dimaklumkan pihak polis akan mengambil keterangan dari Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim pada jam 11pagi, hari Rabu, 18hb Ogos 2010, di Ibu Pejabat Parti Keadilan Rakyat, Merchant Square, Tropicana. Ini berkaitan penyiasatan penggunaan foto Sultan Johor kononnya oleh penganjur ceramah di Batu Pahat, Johor. Terima kasih.

Pejabat Dato’ Seri Anwar Ibrahim

Aug

Kredibiliti Pendakwaan Terjejas

By Anwar Ibrahim 58 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, Mahkamah, Malaysia and Pakatan Rakyat

Seperti yang diduga mahkamah telah menolak permohonan untuk membatalkan pertuduhan fitnah ke atas saya. Walaupun hakim akur pihak pendakwa gagal menafikan samada wujudnya hubungan sulit di antara Farah Azlina dan Saiful Bukhari, namun hanya kerana berasaskan pengakuan Mohd Hanafiah dan Jude Pereira, Hakim Mohd Zabidin Mohd Diah merasakan ianya memadai membuktikan Saiful tidak mempunyai akses kepada dokumen penyiasatan serta perbicaraan.

Sebelum inipun hakim yang sama menolak permohonan Pasukan Pembela agar Farah dan Saiful dipanggil untuk menjawab dan berhadapan dengan persoalan samada wujudnya hubungan sulit serta wujudnya kebocoran maklumat dokumen perbicaraan dan penyiasatan. Mahkamah seperti mahu memberi perlindungan kepada Farah dan Saiful sedangkan kedua-dua mereka sewajarnya memfailkan affidavit membela kehormatan jika benar tuduhan itu palsu. Mengapa gentar berhadapan dengan kebenaran!

ANWAR IBRAHIM

Aug

Drop the Charges Against Anwar Ibrahim

By Anwar Ibrahim 19 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Politik and Umno

From The Huffington Post
By Azeem Ibrahim

Anwar Ibrahim is the leader of Malaysia’s opposition. Since reemerging in Malaysian politics in 2007 he has done well, quadrupling the new opposition coalition’s representation in Parliament, winning 47% of the popular vote, and taking control of six of Malaysia’s fourteen states and territories in the March 2008 elections. He has become the biggest threat to the sitting government’s 53-years of uninterrupted rule.

Perhaps that is why the Malaysian judiciary is pursuing a charge of sodomy against him, again. In 1998 he faced a similar ordeal in the midst of a popular uprising against the rule of then Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed. Viewed as a threat to the ruling party’s status quo, Anwar was sacked from his position as Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister, arrested and sentenced to 15 years solitary confinement after a trial many believed was marred by political interference, falsification of evidence, blackmailing, coercion and torture of witnesses, harassment of defense lawyers, and refusal to admit witness testimony favorable to the accused. Anwar’s current trial looks to be a repeat of the travesty of justice that landed him in prison last time.

Firstly, there is overwhelming evidence that the charges are a government conspiracy. Just a few days before he filed the police report accusing Anwar of sexually assaulting him, the accuser met the current Prime Minister – Najib Razak, then Deputy Prime Minister. When asked about the meeting, Najib first denied it ever happened, but later changed his story, admitting that the meeting took place, but claiming that it was to discuss scholarship opportunities for the accuser, who is a college dropout. Najib then changed his story again, admitting that the accuser had come to him to complain about the abuse he had received under Anwar. Najib, the son of Malaysia’s second Prime Minister, was at the time Prime Minister in waiting. It was he who had the most to lose from an ascendant Anwar Ibrahim and opposition coalition.

In the days before lodging his police report the accuser also met a police officer who had falsified evidence in the 1998 trial. And the current trial is being led by an Attorney General who is believed to have fabricated evidence in Anwar’s previous trial.

Secondly, the charge does not match the accusation. The accusations – as detailed in accuser’s testimony in court – suggest forced sodomy, effectively rape. By pursuing a different charge from the one made by the accused, the Attorney General is opening himself up to some embarrassing questions. If he believes that Anwar raped Saiful, why not charge him for it? But if he really believes Anwar and Saiful engaged in consensual sex, why only press charges against a popular leader of the opposition, and not also the former intern?

It is likely that he is not charging Anwar for the rape of which he is accused for the simple reason that he knows the charge would not stand. Anwar Ibrahim was almost disabled in 1998 after a near-death beating at the hands of the Malaysian police, is known to have a disabling back problem. It is completely improbable that he could mount an attack on a younger, more agile man. It looks very much like the Attorney General has ignored the charge because he knows that there will be insufficient evidence in court to make it stick.

A third suspicious aspect of the whole affair is the lack of evidence. If the accuser was indeed assaulted then there would be some evidence to prove it. However, forty-eight hours after the alleged incident he was examined twice, once in a private hospital and once more in the Kuala Lumpur General Hospital. In both cases doctors ruled out any possibility of assault or penetration – the minimum amount of evidence necessary for a court to proceed with a trial. Moreover, the lag in time from the alleged incident until the time he was examined leaves wide open the possibility of planting or fabricating evidence. Continue reading ‘Drop the Charges Against Anwar Ibrahim’

Aug

Raja Sumpah

By Anwar Ibrahim 15 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Politik, Sidenotes and Umno

Dari Sharpshooter

Sumpah..sumpah..sumpah…adakah semua masalah boleh selesai dengan hanya bersumpah?
Mengapa bila dibawa kes ke Mahkamah Syariah, Menteri UMNO sendiri yang menolaknya. Mengapa takut dengan Mahkamah Syariah? Bukankah anda mengaku sebagai pejuang Islam.

Sungguh besar risiko dan ancaman bagi orang yang berdusta dan berbohong dalam sumpahnya, sebab itu Islam mengingatkan umatnya agar hati-hati dalam bersumpah dan jangan biasakan diri bersumpah. Jangan bersumpah tentang ini dan itu tanpa keperluan.

Kebiasaan bersumpah akan menyebabkan orang merasa tidak bersalah ketika berdusta dalam sumpahnya sehingga akhirnya terjebak dalam ancaman hadis di atas. Bahkan Allah SWT berfirman: Continue reading ‘Raja Sumpah’

Aug

Saiful-Farah liaison: Whither justice?

By Anwar Ibrahim 5 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Hebahan, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Politik and Umno

By Kim Quek

Judge Zaibidin Diah’s rejection of Defence’s request to put complainant Saiful and DPP Farah on the witness stand despite the duo’s complete failure to respond to allegation of sexual relations between them is most regrettable. For it is another black mark to the long-running, scandal-ridden Anwar Sodomy Trial II, thus reinforcing the universal perception that the trial is nothing but political persecution for Anwar Ibrahim.

What would a deputy public prosecutor do when he or she is accused of sleeping with the complainant in a criminal trial, if the allegation is false? Shouldn’t the DPP instantly yell and deny and act against the defamer?

What is your take of this DPP if he or she chooses to steadfastly act deaf and dumb despite the fact that the controversy sparked by his or her alleged misconduct has raged relentlessly for almost three weeks?

And what is your take of the Attorney General and the prosecuting team who insist they know nothing about the affair and also insist the DPP has done nothing wrong despite the AG’s incongruous act to quickly bundle her away not only from the prosecuting team but also from the prosecuting division of the Attorney General’s Chambers?

Mind you, we are not talking about an ordinary criminal trial, but possibly the most important trial in our history involving the fate of the highest-profiled political leader of the country, the outcome of which may sway the course of history for many years to come.

Prosecution smacks of dishonesty

Under the circumstances, shouldn’t the AG be duty bound to the nation to come clean and say outright whether the allegation is true or false? What choice do we have other than to impute dishonest intention and dishonourable conduct on the part of the prosecution over its prolong ambiguity over such an important issue?

Who would believe prosecution team leader Solicitor General II Yusof Zainal Abiden when he professed no knowledge of the affair though he and DPP Farah Azlina had been working together as a team on this case for six months and meeting almost every day, and all he needed to do was to ask Farah whether the allegation was true. Don’t tell me Yusof never asked her, or that she never answered, or that he had no means of finding out the veracity of the allegation. For that would be a blatant lie. Continue reading ‘Saiful-Farah liaison: Whither justice?’

Aug

Kerajaan Selangor Salur RM2.7 Juta Kepada Sekolah Agama Rakyat, KAFA Dan KAFAI

By Anwar Ibrahim 6 Comments

Categories: Agenda Baru, Aktiviti, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Hebahan, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Kewangan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Pendidikan, Program, Selangor and Umno

KENYATAAN AKHBAR

10 OGOS 2010

Kerajaan Pakatan Rakyat di Selangor mengagihkan peruntukan sebanyak RM2.7 juta kepada sekolah agama di seluruh negeri untuk baik pulih prasarana yang daif di sekolah-sekolah berkenaan.

Majlis penyerahan cek bantuan disampaikan Menteri Besar, YAB Tan Sri Datuk Seri Abdul Khalid Ibrahim di Maahad Tarbiyah Islamiyah Al-Ansar, Kampung Asahan, Bestari Jaya, Kuala Selangor, hari ini.

Hadir sama, Pengerusi Jawatankuasa Tetap Pendidikan, Pendidikan Tinggi dan Pembangunan Modal Insan, YB Dr Halimah Ali, Ahli Parlimen Kuala Selangor, Dr Dzulkefly Ahmad, ADUN Meru, Dr Abd Rani Osman dan ADUN Bukit Melawati, YB Muthiah.

Kerajaan Selangor menerima 238 permohonan untuk bantuan peruntukan sejak permohonan fasa pertama dibuka bermula Februari hingga 30 April 2010.

Permohonan diterima dari Sekolah Agama Rakyat (SAR), Sekolah Rendah Agama (SRA), Sekolah Rendah Agama Intergrasi (SRAI), Kelas Agama dan Fardhu Ain (KAFA) dan Kelas Agama dan Fardhu Ain Intergrasi (KAFAI).

Daripada jumlah itu, hanya 136 permohonan SAR, KAFA dan KAFAI telah diluluskan dan layak untuk menerima bantuan peruntukan ini. Jumlah ini meningkat berbanding hanya 114 buah sekolah yang menerima peruntukan sepanjang tahun lalu.

Bagi SRA dan SRAI, peruntukan disalurkan secara terus menerusi Jabatan Agama Islam Selangor (JAIS).

Bagi tahun 2010, Kerajaan Selangor menyediakan peruntukan RM6 juta untuk SAR, KAFA dan KAFAI kerana kebanyakan bangunan sekolah dalam keadaan uzur dan daif yang memerlukan perhatian Kerajaan Negeri.

Permohonan Bantuan Pembangunan Fizikal Sekolah bagi FASA II 2010 dibuka bermula 22 Julai lalu sehingga 30 September.

Di bawah pemerintahan Barisan Nasional (BN), SAR tidak mendapat perhatian sewajarnya yang menjadi faktor sekolah ini ketinggalan dari segi infrastruktur berbanding sekolah kebangsaan, sekolah cina dan tamil.

Dalam ucapannya, Menteri Besar berkata, Kerajaan Selangor mentadbir negeri ini secara adil dengan memberikan perhatian kepada semua sekolah termasuk SAR, Sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Cina (SJKC) dan sekolah Jenis Kebangsaan Tamil (SJKT).

“Inilah bukti kerajaan negeri menepati janji apabila hasil negeri dikembalikan semula kepada rakyat. Hasil kekayaan negeri diberikan kepada semua tanpa mengira kaum dan agama,” katanya.

Menteri Besar berkata, peranan dan aktiviti sekolah agama wajar diberi sokongan dan bantuan kerana ia mampu menjadi wadah alternatif kepada rakyat Selangor dalam usaha memberikan pendidikan kepada anak-anak.

SEKRETARIAT AKHBAR
PEJABAT DATO’ MENTERI BESAR SELANGOR

Aug

Perjuang Diskaun Rumah Mewah Tetapi Lupa Subsidi Dipotong

By Anwar Ibrahim 11 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Anwar, Demokrasi, Ekonomi, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Pilihanraya, Politik, Selangor, Sidenotes and Umno

Dari Harakah
Abdul Aziz Mustafa

Naib Presiden PAS, Datuk Mahfuz Omar membidas pengampu-pengampu pemimpin Umno yang hanya memperjuangkan diskaun untuk pembelian rumah mewah kepada Bumiputera tetapi berdiam diri terhadap pemotongan subsidi.

“Sikap mereka yang membisu seribu bahasa terhadap pemotongan subsidi yang ternyata membebankan rakyat terutama menjelang musim perayaan ini membuktikan sikap mereka yang bukan sahaja tidak prihatin malah tidak peduli sama sekali terhadap penderitaan rakyat terutama yang berpendapatan rendah,” katanya.

Malah, katanya lagi, mereka bersekongkol dengan tindakan kerajaan yang hanya berani merampas subsidi dari rakyat dan mengumumkan kenaikan harga barang sebaik sahaja sesi Parlimen selesai bersidang.

Beliau mendedahkan, tidak ada sebarang pandangan diminta mahupun perbicangan secara khusus dibuat Continue reading ‘Perjuang Diskaun Rumah Mewah Tetapi Lupa Subsidi Dipotong’

Aug

Anwar’s Sodomy Accuser Spared Questioning Over ‘Affair’

By Anwar Ibrahim 11 Comments

Categories: Analisis, Antarabangsa, Anwar, Demokrasi, Islam, Isu Semasa, KeADILan, Mahkamah, Malaysia, Media, Pakatan Rakyat, Parlimen, Penerbitan, Pilihanraya, Politik and Umno

From AFP

The young man who has accused Malaysian opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim of sodomy was spared Monday from having to take the stand to answer claims he had an affair with a trial prosecutor.

Anwar last week applied to have the sodomy charges against him struck out, saying that 25-year-old Saiful Bukhari Azlan, who once worked as an aide in his office, could have been passed confidential information by the female lawyer.

The former deputy prime minister, who was sacked and jailed on separate sex and corruption counts a decade ago, has said the case is a political conspiracy and that the alleged relationship is more proof the trial is biased.

Lawyers for Anwar on Monday asked the High Court to force Saiful, as well as the young prosecutor Farah Azlina Latif, to testify over the allegations.

But Judge Mohamad Zabidin Diah refused the request, saying it was “not relevant to this case or this proceeding”.

Defence counsel Karpal Singh had asked the court to strike out the “frivolous” charge against Anwar, saying that the extraordinary allegations undermined the entire case.

“Never before in history… has such a motion been filed to strike out the charge on the basis of an affair between the prosecutor and the star witness,” he said.

“This is putting the judicial system on trial. The court itself is on trial.”

The prosecution argued against the request for Saiful and Farah to take the stand, saying that it was a “fishing expedition” by the defence.

The claims of an affair first surfaced in a political blog last month, and shortly afterwards Farah was removed from the case.

No evidence has been offered, but neither the prosecution nor the pair involved have denied the allegations.

Saiful has accused Anwar — a 62-year-old father of six — of sodomising him at an upmarket Kuala Lumpur condominium in 2008. If convicted, Anwar could face up to 20 years in prison.

Sodomy, even among consenting adults, is illegal in Muslim-majority Malaysia.

Anwar has said he is the victim of a plot to prevent him from taking power after the opposition made huge strides in 2008 elections, stunning the ruling Barisan Nasional coalition, which has been in power for half a century.

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