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- Graphic designer tries to rob Kota Baru hair salon but surrenders after 3-hr standoff
- Six senior citizens evacuated from floods in Selayang
- Muhyiddin opens Umno wings’ assemblies with fiery attack against Opposition
| Graphic designer tries to rob Kota Baru hair salon but surrenders after 3-hr standoff Posted: 27 Nov 2012 07:38 AM PST Published: Tuesday November 27, 2012 MYT 11:31:00 PM |
| Six senior citizens evacuated from floods in Selayang Posted: 27 Nov 2012 07:04 AM PST Published: Tuesday November 27, 2012 MYT 11:05:00 PMKUALA LUMPUR: Six senior citizens were evacuated Tuesday night after they were trapped at their house in Selayang near here by flash floods, following a heavy downpour in the afternoon. Selangor Fire and Rescue Department assistant director (operations) Mohd Sani Harul said, a group of firemen, two engines and a lifeboat were deployed to carry out the rescue at 7.45pm. He said the flash floods also affected Kampung Nakhoda, Kampung Laksamana and Ulu Yam Baru. "The water level was reported to have exceeded 1.5m but it showed signs of receding," he said when contacted by Bernama. Mohd Sani said the total number of victims involved in the three areas had yet to be ascertained. |
| Muhyiddin opens Umno wings’ assemblies with fiery attack against Opposition Posted: 27 Nov 2012 06:49 AM PST KUALA LUMPUR: Umno deputy president Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin launched a scorching attack against the Opposition saying it was incapable of forming a federal government when opening the Youth, Wanita and Puteri assemblies simultaneously on Tuesday night. The Umno deputy president told about 3,000 Wanita, Youth and Puteri delegates that Pakatan Rakyat parties were incompatible, distrusted each other, contradicted each other and disagreed on everything, including who should be their candidate for prime minister. He said their political ideologies were poles apart and while PAS wanted their president Datuk Seri Hadi Awang as their prime minister, DAP insisted it should be Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim. "This shows that PAS grassroots does not trust DAP or PKR to lead Pakatan. They do not have faith in Lim Guan Eng and neither do they believe in Lim Kit Siang. They also don't believe in Karpal Singh. "And they definitely do not believe in Anwar, This is the greatest failure for PAS in their power-sharing arrangement with DAP and PKR," said Muhyiddin who is also Deputy Prime Minister. Muhyiddin said there was no way the PAS president could ever become the Pakatan prime minister because the DAP had rejected Hadi as the candidate and the number of seats PAS contested were too few for the party to claim the post. He said that even if PAS won every single seat they contested they still could not form a government to set up an Islamic state. He said the situation in the three states ruled by Pakatan was proof that PAS was nothing but, "melukut di tepi gantang," a Malay saying which means it did not matter whether one was there or not. In other words it means that PAS was irrelevant in Pakatan and that it was just a vehicle for DAP and PKR to gain power. "In Penang, DAP does not share its power with PAS. Although PAS won a seat in the state, the exco post for religion was given to PKR. This is strange as PAS tells the whole world that religion is the basis of its struggle. It shows that DAP does not trust PAS," he said. "On the other hand, DAP which won a state seat in Kedah is not in the state exco. When Kedah PAS comes out with an Islamic policy in Kedah, it is not the Barisan but the DAP representative who makes noise. "It shows that DAP is not only unwilling to share power with PAS, but DAP also against Islamic policies. In Selangor, PAS and DAP have been known to fight each other over Islamic issues. DAP, which is a secular party, is not only against hudud but also against the implementation of Islamic laws clamping down on vice," he said. He said, as a result, PAS' exco in charge of religion was sacked from the state government and his party. The religion portfolio, which he was holding was then given to the Mentri Besar who was from PKR. Muhyiddin accused PAS of using narrow religious sentiment to instigate the Malays to hate Umno while DAP used extreme racial sentiment to turn the people against Barisan parties. "PAS and DAP are poles apart in their ideology and political stands. After years of fighting each other, they are now pretending to cooperate. But underneath, they are still at loggerheads over issues because of their conflicting ideologies. If PAS has no place in Pakatan, how can it uphold Islam in the opposition pact? "This is impossible and that is why they are now singing the tune of setting up a welfare state and not an Islamic state," he said. The Umno general assembly, which began Tuesday with the simultaneous opening of the Youth, Wanita and Puteri Umno movements, will end on Dec 1. |
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