DAP mum on PAS debacle

(The Star) – Selangor DAP leaders are shying away from the latest controversy surrounding PAS, saying it is the Islamic party’s internal issue.

They have refused to be drawn into the in-fighting despite the DAP and PKR being labelled by former Selangor PAS chief Datuk Dr Hasan Ali as the “stumbling blocks” in the PAS Islamic state agenda.

“I do not want to be dragged into the dispute between him (Dr Hasan) and the others in PAS,” said Selangor DAP chairman Teresa Kok when asked by The Star for her views on the PAS feud.

“So, I choose not to comment.”

On Tuesday, Dr Hasan had said he had wide support in PAS for the party to return to its original struggle of forming an Isla- mic state.

The 64-year-old Selangor executive councillor blamed the party’s alliance with the DAP and PKR for the shift towards setting up a welfare state. He said the alliance was causing a lot of dissent within PAS.

The party’s influential Dewan Ulama has thrown its support behind Dr Hasan and former deputy president Nasharudin Mat Isa, who lamented that PAS was no longer seen in its Islamic image.