Pakatan: Abolish PTPTN, but rich must pay

While confirming its commitment to abolish repayment to national higher education fund (PTPTN) loans and provide free education if it captures Putrajaya, Pakatan Rakyat has stressed that the rich must pay for their own.

“I heard that even the son of Air Asia boss Tony Fernandes also applied (for the loan), this is preposterous,” quipped Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim at a press conference, after chairing the Pakatan Rakyat leadership council meeting today.

Anwar acquitted

KUALA LUMPUR: Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim was today discharged and acquitted of a sodomy charge by the High Court here.

High Court judge Mohamad Zabidin Mohd Diah said that he was not 100 per cent sure that the DNA evidence was not compromised.

“After going through defence and evidence in full, the court could not be 100 per cent certain that the DNA evidence was not compromised.

RPK mocks armchair critics

Fugitive blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin today mocked criticism against him for granting interviews to Umno-linked newspapers, saying these attacks are from armchair critics.

In a posting on his Malaysia Today blog last night, Raja Petra said he only valued comments made by the minority of Malaysians who took action for the betterment of the country.

UK Daily predicts Anwar conviction

Top UK paper calls Najib ‘authoritarian’, predicts Anwar conviction

KUALA LUMPUR: Datuk Seri Najib Razak’s image took another major beating today when leading British daily The Guardian predicted Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim would soon become a victim of “egregious, politically suspect injustice” in his sodomy trial.

Both Najib and Razak lovers of Altantuya?

WikiLeaks: Anwar had "firm information" Najib's aide ordered Altantuya's killing

A leaked diplomatic note from the US embassy in Malaysia to Washington has asserted that Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim was convinced it was Prime Minister Najib Razak's aide-camp, who had ordered two of the PM's former bodyguards to kill Altantuya Shaariibuu.

The Mongolian translator, who allegedly helped in the Scorpenes deal, was murdered in Malaysia in 2006 and Anwar also said she had been lovers with both Najib and his close friend Razak Baginda.

Anwar's Sept 16 bid was real, says Wikileaks cable

Joseph Sipalan

A leaked US embassy cable has lent credence to Pakatan Rakyat leader Anwar Ibrahim's claim that a group of Sabah and Sarawak politicians had planned to defect from the BN on Sept 16, 2008, over the marginalisation of the two states.

An entry in the cable, posted by Wikileaks, Sabah former Chief Minister Salleh Said Keruak had told US embassy officials that potentially more than half of the 25 Sabah MPs were ready to abandon the BN, following the precedent set by the SAPP.

Secret pact between Najib and Anwar?

Anwar said that it all is a political conspiracy against him.

And I agree.

After all, I was the American Ambassador to Malaysia when all of these things happened the first time around.

As people know, the American Embassy has many sources of information.

Just ask Wikileaks.

Wikileaks: ISA arrests foiled Sept 16 crossover plans?

A purported diplomatic cable from the US Embassy leaked by blogger Raja Petra Kamaruddin today revealed that the triple arrests under the Internal Security Act (ISA) in 2008 had stopped Umno MPs from defecting.

According to the cable, said to be sourced from whistleblower website Wikileaks and posted on Raja Petra's blog Malaysia Today, this was confirmed by Pulai parliamentarian Nur Jazlan Mohamed (left) in October 2008, a month after the arrest.

“In early October, Umno MP Nur Jazlan told (US Embassy political counselor Mark D Clark) that the ISA arrests had been “very successful” in achieving Umno's objective of intimidating MPs who had considered joining with (opposition leader) Anwar (Ibrahim),” the cable read.

US experts: It's Anwar

US experts confirmed Anwar as man in video, court told

KUALA LUMPUR, June 24 — US authorities have identified the man in the controversial sex video screened by “Datuk T” as Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim, a magistrate’s court was told this morning.

The point was raised in the facts of the case read out today after the “Datuk T” trio of Datuk Shazryl Eskay Abdullah, Tan Sri Abdul Rahim Thamby Chik and Datuk Shuib Lazim pleaded guilty to their involvement in the screening of the video on March 21.

A New Alliance

By Zaid Ibrahim

Like many Malaysians today, I think our country’s politics is on the verge of breakdown. The Pakatan Rakyat has not managed to play a meaningful political role as a federal Opposition. The checks and balances they are supposed to provide have given way to so much hostility that they will shoot down everything the Barisan Nasional proposes, even good ideas.

Anwar claimed Project IC highly covert operation

Project IC: Anwar says he was kept out of the loop

Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim conceded that he had some knowledge of the citizen-for-votes operation in Sabah, allegedly spearheaded by Umno in the early 1990s when he was the party's deputy president.

However, he said that whatever information he received were from "secondary sources" as he was kept out of loop in the highly covert operation popularly known as Project IC or Project M.

Project IC: Is Anwar involved or not?

Project IC: Anwar has a case to answer

Anwar was not only DPM at the time, he was also Umno's head of operations in 1992 to 1994 to topple PBS. Can he really claim to be ignorant?'
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Anwar not involved in Project IC?

PKR central committee member Khalid Jaafar says PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim was never involved in the Sabah identity card fiasco in the time he was in government.

'Project IC' whistleblower: Pakatan states at risk

Hafiz Yatim

A key figure in the 'Project IC' exposé warns that attempts to register illegal immigrants as citizens to pad up the electoral roll, a practice allegedly rampant in Sabah, will likely spread to peninsular Malaysia.

Dr Chong Eng Leong (right in photo), a former Parti Bersatu Sabah leader, said that his 15 years of research chronicled in his book 'Lest We Forget', estimates that about 600,000 illegal immigrants were given citizenship under the 'Project IC' scheme.

Chong, now a PKR member, warned that likely targets for an expansion of this scheme are the states ruled by Pakatan Rakyat - Selangor, Penang, Kedah and Kelantan.

Explicit sex clips finally surface

More clips of the sex video allegedly depicting opposition leader and PKR de facto leader Anwar Ibrahim have surfaced on YouTube.

The four clips, lasting between four minutes to 4:24 minutes, resembles the 22-minute video shown to journalists on March 21 at the Carcosa Seri Negara hotel.

Pundit: Sarawak losses fatal if PKR doesn’t buck up

Sheridan Mahavera

PKR was over-dependent on Anwar during the Sarawak campaign, said Aeria.

PKR’s dismal performance in the Sarawak election is a disturbing omen of how the party will fare in the next general election unless it institutes painful changes, a political analyst said last night.

Political scientist Dr Andrew Aeria said the party organised a respectable pre-election training programme but it ultimately foundered in making use of those preparations during the campaigning period.

‘Male Y is Anwar’ ... to know his fate on May 16

The prosecution claims that Anwar's DNA samples matches that of the Male Y.

KUALA LUMPUR: Lead prosecutor Yusof Zainal Abiden today told the High Court in the Sodomy II trial that the “Male Y” DNA samples found in Mohd Saiful Azlan Bukhari’s anus belonged to Anwar Ibrahim.

The DNA samples were obtained from a toothbrush, water bottle and towel left behind by Anwar in his holding cell on the night of his arrest (July 16, 2008) and marked as exhibits by government chemist Nor Aidora Saedon earlier this month.

Baiting voters with sex clip

B Nantha Kumar

A BN supporter admits distributing controversial video in Sarawak

KUALA LUMPUR: A pro-Barisan Nasional blogger has admitted in a posting that he and others are using a sex video to help the coalition gain votes in the Sarawak election.

Media told to apologise to Anwar for sex video reports

Penang Pakatan Rakyat youth leaders are seeing red over news of the leaked sex video purportedly involving their leader, Anwar Ibrahim, splashed all over the front pages of several major mainstream media on Tuesday.

The group led by Penang PKR Youth vice-chairperson Syed Mikael Rizal Aidid (left), is also demanding an apology from the Information, Communications and Cultural Ministry over the matter.

"Instruct all mainstream papers which carried the news on its front pages to apologise to Opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim, his family and all Malaysians," Syed Mikael told the ministry, headed by Rais Yatim.

Where is Umno's morality in the sex video?

Daniel John Jambun

I thought it was really ironic recently when so many demonstrations were staged urging the government to investigate the sex video allegedly involving Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. One of these demonstrations include one organised by Sabah UMNO, with participation by Filipino immigrants. This made me think of some very pertinent questions about logic in the whole matter.