Selangor was not entrusted over to DAP or PAS or PKR alone; it was entrusted collectively to all three parties. A break up equates to all three component parties betraying their collective…

Umar Mukhtar PKR's much exalted Supremo actually made a media statement that enough (plenty) BN MPs will be defecting to the opposition on September 16, 2008, and that there will be a change of…

You need to decide which 125 seats you want to keep and go all out to keep them. Let your enemies and the opposition say what they want. Let them scream, rant, rave and foam at the mouth. You just…

Umar Mukhtar Things were going on well for LKS. The running dog was bringing goodies back dutifully. Hudud was in the back-burner or so it seemed. The Non-Malays in PKR was growing in influence…

The purported declarations by 29 assemblypersons said to favour Wan Azizah for the post of Menteri Besar couldn’t possibly have been construed as an edict worthy for consideration by the Sultan,…

Salleh Said Keruak This was what Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said in his SCMP interview with Chris Wright -- and that more or less sums up what the man is all about whom Musa Hitam said suffers…

The man who for 22 years shaped the modern Malaysian state tells Chris Wright about his disillusionment with his successors, why he feels he has to intervene, and the perils of a free press…

Dr Azlie F. Rahman Ketika artikel ini ditulis, Pakatan Rakyat baru sahaja terbubar. Secara ringkas; puncanya adalah perbalahan DAP-PAS yang berkisar tentang HUDUD – DAP putuskan hubungan dengan…

Umar Mukhtar It's almost enough to boggle your mind. First, DAP signed a statement saying PAS was free to pursue whatever is their party ideals, while others were free to disagree. Then, when…

I think Umno is about 30 years too late. Umno should have listened back in 1985 and 1987 when we first warned them about what was going to happen. But then the Umno leaders at that time thought…

When I read William Pesek’s latest commentary on Bloomberg View, I barely recognised the country he was writing about. He starts by referring to Malaysia’s “underlying economic distress” and…

So DAP is far smarter than most of you give them credit for. What they want is to kill Azmin. But they cannot admit this. So instead they raise the issue of Hudud and blame Hadi for the breakup of…

Umar Mukhtar Watching Lim Kit Siang and Dr. Mahathir Mohamad in a one-to-one face off in the Great Economi Debate of 1972 at Dewan Tunku Chanselor, Universiy Of Malaya, one couldn't help…

So, if you think that the Malays are going to allow Pakatan Rakyat to take over you had better think again. That is not going to happen. And if by chance Pakatan Rakyat does win the next general…

Dr Mahathir has predicted that, under Najib, Barisan Nasional is going to lose the next general election. Dr Mahathir would never allow that to happen even if a few people have to die or he had to…

Then what happened to the Pharaoh and Egypt would not happen to Malaysia and we can, as the Chinese would say, buang swei, and end all the bad luck that Malaysia is facing. NO HOLDS BARRED…

Din Merican Today 18 June 2015, Muslims in Malaysia start the Ramadan Fast. Ramadan has a special but sad significance for my young friend, Lawyer Rosli Dahlan. It was 8 Ramadans ago that the…

Umar Mukhtar It was a pragmatic Anwar Ibrahin's demand when finalising the electoral pact prior to PRU12, that no single party, DAP or PAS or PKR, is able to form any state government even if …

1.     It is regrettable to see Tun Mahathir seeking to undermine his own country in the international media as part of a personal political vendetta. 2.     It is irresponsible of any citizen,…

Salleh Said Keruak In his New York Times interview, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the reason why Malaysia has managed to remain stable and to grow economically all these years was because there…

Selangor Menteri Besar Azmin Ali is going to meet HRH the Sultan of Selangor to inform HRH that Selangor is no longer headed by a Pakatan Rakyat state government but by an Azmin Ali government.…

Jeswan Kaur, The Heat  The sensational debut by the opposition pact Pakatan Rakyat in April 2008 general election, clinching more than one-third of parliamentary seats and five state…

Awas satu team broker politik untuk mencaturkan kerajaan baru di Selangor sedang berjalan. Team berkenaan dianggotai oleh golongan profesional bersama dua orang veteran politik yang pernah…

They are spendthrifts. The annual audit report has given us sufficient indication of this. TK Chua, FMT letter I refer to the Prime Minister’s call for a new approach in spending – asking…

Zan Azlee, Astro Awani I strongly disagree with Umno’s Kelantan liaison chairman Datuk Seri Mustapa Mohamed when he claimed that the DAP’s intentions to build a mosque in Kelantan is an insult…

Umar Mukhtar According to PKR, the ADUNs who support the present Selangor State Government are in support of Azmin Ali, the Menteri Besar. Nothing that smacks of any kind of a formal coalition.…

So there you have it. Azmin chooses PAS and the Palace is happy but Penang collapses. Azmin chooses DAP and Penang is saved but he upsets HRH the Sultan. Now you know what stuck between a rock and…

The opposition pact once represented hope for a better Malaysia; so it is disappointing to see it collapse under the weight of egotism and stubbornness. Scott Ng, Free Malaysia Today After…

Chandra Muzaffar It is an irony that in spite of all the attempts to curb corruption --- through integrity pacts and pledges, the strengthening of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission…

Umar Mukhtar I say this with the the greatest respect for the institution of constitutional monarchy. Because it is part and parcel of the Constitution of my country. It is part of a whole. One…