PRIME MINISTER IN WAITING TAN-SRI-MUHYIDDIN-YASSIN’S FIRST MALAYS THE MALAYS WILL FORGIVE “MISTAKES” OF A GOVERNMENT IF IT SERVES THEM WELL.

“My definition of Malaysia is simple: ‘Malays First’. Whatever you do, wherever you work, Malays should be the top priority for all its citizens,”Muhyiddin   said as”Country is above all religions and ideologies,” he argued and asked people to follow the same. ”I agree friends that as a Malay, as a citizen who loves Malaysia, you will also agree with my definition…We might do any work or take any decision, Malays should be supreme,”

“I am Malay first, but being Malay doesn’t mean I am not Malaysian,” said Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

He was responding to DAP leader Lim Kit Siang’s challenge earlier today for him to state whether he is a Malay or a Malaysian first.

“He doesn’t understand (what) the meaning of the concept of 1Malaysia is all about,” Muhyiddin told a press conference in the Parliament lobby

He said if a government serve the people selflessly, then they would forgive its mistakes as well.

“When we get a mandate of five years, we must work on that and serve people selflessly. If we do that then people will forgive our mistakes as well,”

The west has a saying that ‘we reap what we sow’. Although I am not a Christian, I believe that this is mentioned in the Holy Book too ( Galatians 6:7 – Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap).

If this fools game plan is to use the movie sentiment to gather Indian support then he is showing how dumb he is…another symptom of panic becoming sidelined and loosing everything in the next GE or he is now the mouthpiece of our dear architect Tun…don’t worry Vella Pariah, you are already irrelevant as much as Indians are concerned…go back to spending your dad’s ill earned money and duduk diam lah…

In case there are any Hindus who read this article, I have good news for you! You can get saved and know it. Here is how:

1. Realize that you are guilty and deserve hell because of your sins:

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Romans 3:23

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” Read more

It is for this reason that many persons with criminal background have often been elected. Democracy was never meant to be run in this manner, and this has blocked our progress. Hence fundamental social and political changes are now required.  not feudal, society. But the intention of our founding fathers, was that democracy and other … Read more MICS’ DEATH WISH IN GI3 THE ULTIMATE DEBATE DON’T BE SHORT-CHANGED!

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Both brothers uttered the same words. One was promoted to be a senator and the other sent to jail. Where is justice in Najib court? If this is not Najib double standard NOT UMNO, I don’t know what is. ooks like me, sounds like me, acts like me, same cause as me … but he ain’t me, he is my brother … one goes to jail, the other appointed senator / deputy minister … only by Najib

they waited for uthaya to lose public support,then split the brothers, and gave waytha a position(which will be powerless position) so he can’t comment against the govt…and hammered him with an old charge from previous election………What a good plan by umno…. But one cant blame them…our indians succumbed to the goodies given to them and waytha….. Well now we know why waytha accepted the offer from BN…other wise he will be charged too for running away from the country……At least uthaya had guts to stae his claims…waytha…u should have just left for UK and continue to hide there….. Bloody….hindu

Both brothers uttered the same words. One was promoted to be a senator and the other sent to jail. Where is justice in UMNO court? If this is not double standard, I don’t know what is.  NOT Umno Najib is using its kangaroo courts to persecute Uthaya for telling the truth about Umno’s extreme cruelty against the poor non-Muslim Indians. The DPP said that Uthaya is guilty of sedition as his words such as mini genocide, ethnic cleansing, armed terrorist and Islamic extremist would internationally portray an atrocious crime and cruel racial oppression. Now how is the cruel killing with impunity by the police of Kugan and many other innocent Indians in custody and in fake encounters any different from that of armed terrorists? Is it also not a form of ethnic cleansing? The Kg. Medan killings of Indians were strongly suspected to be engineered by Umno and no one was brought to justice. Is it wrong to call it a mini genocide and ethnic cleansing? Hundreds of thousands of locally born Hindu Indians are denied citizenship while a similar or larger number of Muslims from neighbouring countries are illegally made instant citizens. Does this not clearly show Umno’s Islamic extremism?

Najib is using its kangaroo courts to persecute Uthaya for telling the truth about Umno’s extreme cruelty against the poor non-Muslim Indians. The DPP said that Uthaya is guilty of sedition as his words such as mini genocide, ethnic cleansing, armed terrorist and Islamic extremist would internationally portray an atrocious crime and cruel racial oppression. Now how is the cruel killing with impunity by the police of Kugan and many other innocent Indians in custody and in fake encounters any different from that of armed terrorists? Is it also not a form of ethnic cleansing? The Kg. Medan killings of Indians were strongly suspected to be engineered by Umno and no one was brought to justice. Is it wrong to call it a mini genocide and ethnic cleansing? Hundreds of thousands of locally born Hindu Indians are denied citizenship while a similar or larger number of Muslims from neighbouring countries are illegally made instant citizens. Does this not clearly show  not Umno’s Islamic extremism? it is Najib’s

The government is providing RM1 million for a 13-episode dramatised version of the novel ‘Interlok’ that is expected to be aired by RTM, claims the National Indian Rights Action Team (Niat).

Gujarat cop Sanjeev Bhatt’s revelations, contained in his affidavit filed before the Supreme Court, may come as a surprise to many. But for all those who lived in Gujarat during those fateful days and were in the thick of things, the contents only provide substantiation of what they had heard then. A top police officer of the state told me a couple of days after the riots started how director general of poice K Chakravarthy was uncomfortable on being told by Narendra Modi at a meeting to allow Hindus to vent their feelings.Though perturbed, Chakravarthy, a naturally timid person, could not muster the guts to stand up to his boss. So, instead he lamented to top police officers like the person to whom I had spoken. Or at least that is what the officer told me It was also being speculated that not only had “Hindus” been allowed to vent their feelings, they had been given “three days” to do this. Then defence minister George Fernandes who had been sent to Ahmedabad by Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee also knew of this “three days” and I personally can vouch for this. With a view to figure out what he was up to, I had called on Fernandes on Saturday, March 2, 2002, in Circuit House in Ahmedabad. Initially, I had some apprehension about how much time the minister would give me because he was on a mission and the riots were on full blast. But I was pleasantly surprised that he had all the time in the world for me. Very soon I could figure out the purpose Fernandes was so keen to engage me in conversation: he wanted to cross-check the facts of the riots that he had heard. It was a long three-hour meeting. At one point the chief secretary, G Subba Rao, and additional chief secretary Ashok Narain, along with a senior army officer, came into the room. They had been confabulating with the minister before I dropped in. Leaving them behind, Fernandes took me to his room. Now the officials wanted to know if they should wait or could leave. The minister asked them to leave and resumed his conversation with me. Fernandes spoke about a whole lot of things, how Ahmedabad had changed, how he had come to the city when there was a massive riot in 1969, how he had walked to the Governor Shriman Narayan’s house from the airport at that time, etc. With the evening advancing and the need for me to go back to the office, I excused myself. Fernandes persisted but I went out. As I climbed down the stairs, the defence minister beckoned me once again from the top of the stairs and said that I should have dinner with him. In the end, I retraced my path. While having an early dinner, Fernandes who was beating around the bush for so long suddenly let it out: “ I have heard that the rioters have been allowed three days time before any action is taken?” I shot back: “ Ya, I have also heard it.” The minister said: “Humm. I see.” We continued on the dinner silently. I must admit that there was no talk about the Modi meet about which Sanjiv Bhatt has now filed an affidavit. But very soon our meeting was broken. Harin Pathak, the minister of state for defence and the BJP MP from Ahmedabad and a hardliner himself, walked into the room with decisive steps and plonked himself on the sofa. In the manner that he walked in it seemed that Pathak was aware that we were having a long meeting and wanted to be privy to the conversation. Immediately after the dinner, I left the place.

Emraan Hashmi accused a housing society in Bandra of “religious discrimination”  DNA The stampede at Allahabad Railway station that killed 36 (and counting) pilgrims last evening is sad, but anyone who expresses surprise that it happened is not in sync with ground realities. In a country that is insensitive … Read more

The stampede at Allahabad Railway station that killed 36 (and counting) pilgrims last evening is sad, but anyone who expresses surprise that it happened is not in sync with ground realities. In a country that is insensitive to the hilt when it comes to crowd management, where common man is herded around like cattle, claims to great organisation notwithstanding, the only surprise is that at events of the magnitude of Kumbh, so few accidents take place.

“They said there will be a meeting, but none of the leaders showed up,” he said, adding that Pakatan had “insulted” Hindraf.

“I thought of them as friends,” he added.

He admitted that there will be criticism over this deal, and acknowledged that some might accuse the movement of “selling out”.

“But I hope the prime minister will prove all of them wrong by seeing through with this agreement,” he said.

He claimed that 1.5 million Indians stand to benefit from this new arrangement.

Najib inks ‘new deal’ with Hindraf

He also took dig at the opposition, saying that Hindraf had “begged” Pakatan Rakyat to endorse its blueprint even after five years of non-delivery towards Indians in Pakatan-administered states.AS MY FEET WALK THRU DRY AND BARREN PLACES AND MY SOUL HAS FELT NO RAIN FOR A WHILE BUT I BELIEVE IN THE WIDOWS EMPTY BARRELS SHE HAD FAITH ENOUGH TO BRING A VAST SUPPLY AND IM HUNGARY FOR ANOTHER WAVE OF GLORY ITS A FRESH TOUCH YOU HAVE PROMISED COULD BE MINE, I …Read more

“Even after they failed to deliver in five states, I told them we can do it right this time, in this election. Until few days ago, I was still begging them.

In case there are any Hindus who read this article, I have good news for you! You can get saved and know it. Here is how:

1. Realize that you are guilty and deserve hell because of your sins:

“For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God;” Romans 3:23

“Wherefore, as by one man sin entered into the world, and death by sin; and so death passed upon all men, for that all have sinned:” Read more

It is for this reason that many persons with criminal background have often been elected. Democracy was never meant to be run in this manner, and this has blocked our progress. Hence fundamental social and political changes are now required.  not feudal, society. But the intention of our founding fathers, was that democracy and other … Read more MICS’ DEATH WISH IN GI3 THE ULTIMATE DEBATE DON’T BE SHORT-CHANGED!

Muhyiddin is an unusual politician. Perhaps even his worst critics might grant him that.

It is not easy to sum up 2012 without a deep feeling of despair. If 2008 was the year in which some fundamental structural issues with our political system were exposed, 2013 seems to have not only deepened our  understanding  of those shortcomings, but also made us alive to the deepening fissures in the Malay Society.subsequent  callousness  and insensitivity shown by the political class, underlined the fact that  class discrimination is deeply embedded into the societal fabric.subsequent  callousness  and insensitivity shown by the political class, underlined the fact that class discrimination is deeply embedded into the societal fabric.f one were to try and tease out some patterns underlying the events of this year, they might broadly fall under two, somewhat related heads. For one, we are beginning to see the tentative first steps towards the formation of the idea of citizenry; the notion that as citizens there exists a reciprocal responsibility to not only respond to one’s immediate environment, but also play an active role in managing it. Over the last couple of years, the  interest in directly influencing modes of governance has grown; democracy as a practice is increasingly detaching itself from the narrow idea of elections. The political class has not understood this change; one has only to  look  at  the fact that in the recent protests in Kuala Lumpur, virtually no elected representatives, not even local politicians, were involved. When a movement that holds the nation’s attention with such intensity fails to stir  the  representatives of people even a little bit, the schism between citizenry and the polity can be deemed to be enduring.

Najib ’s big battle seems to be with his party that he allegedly leads. Najib is interested in his name not UMNO, his visage, the unquestioned nature of his authority but is deeply uncomfortable with his ideas which are indulged so that they don’t have to be implemented. His critique cuts too deep for it to be actionable, particularly his secound wife. Fortunately for UMNO,own suspicion about power has rendered him incapable of pushing through his ideas with any force. He keeps plugging away in his little laboratories, emerging occasionally to make some pronouncement before diving back away from the real world. It is Najii’s belief that power is contaminating that makes his endeavours and ideas a non-starter. Without exercising power, change is unlikely to come about on its own. By labelling all power regardless of the manner of use as corrupting, he has effectively neutered the power of his own prescriptions.

In effecti Najib placed himself at an existential cul-de-sac. He is in a position to try and change things with his ideas, but only because of the power he derives as a dynastic leader –a thought that violates the core of the very ideas that he calls his own. The paradox is inescapable-according to his own framework, he has earned the rights he has illegitimately, and therefore everything that follows cannot be put into practice. He has convinced himself without genuine democratisation, all other questions are ‘smoke’ or ‘irrelevant’, and hence need not be engaged with. He rejects the idea of leadership itself in an attempt to efface the power that is his for the asking, at least till 2014. He thus stands perennially on the outside, looking in, disowning all that has led to his leadership, and shying away from any action that is enabled by the illegitimacy of his position. He is the disembodied voice in UMNO head, tentatively issuing abstract conceptual constructs while party tries to make its way forward in an increasingly hostile political landscape. The fatal flaw  is existence of Najib; and because he is only too aware of this, his leadership is almost by definition, a non-starter.

Kadir suggested that it was possible the Malays had seen how the prime minister appeared too willing to curry favour with the non-Malays, and felt worried that if the MCA, MIC or Gerakan won big, their power would be usurped.

“They would have read, seen and heard of how the prime minister unrelentingly went about improving Chinese and Tamil school education, gave additional allocations to these schools, and met with several radical Chinese and Indian groups like Dong Zong and Hindraf,” he said.

“But what frightened a majority of the Malays even more was the possibility of a PR victory and the emergence of the DAP as a dominant player in national politics.

“So, did Umno win bigger in the last general election because its president prioritised the Malays or because the Malays themselves felt they were no longer prioritised by the party leadership, and therefore they acted to ensure that Umno and the Malays are strengthened from bottom up,” Kadir asked.

If this were the case, Kadir said it would only be fair to allow the grassroots to decide on Najib’s fate when polls are called at the end of the year, instead of the party leadership arbitrarily deciding not to allow the party’s presidency to be challenged.

“Furthermore, Najib himself said after the May 13 Umno supreme council meeting that Umno practises democracy and its leaders are free to be challenged,” he pointed out

Setelah menang pilihanraya umum ke 13 walaupun tewas undi popular buat pertama kalinya dalam sejarah, Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad mendedahkan wajah UMNO yang sebenar kepada umum.

(Kata Mahathir, orang Melayu sudah meluat dengan UMNO… tetapi hanya sebut selepas pilihan raya selesai)

Bagi Mahathir, ramai orang Melayu sudah merasa meluat dengan UMNO dan mengganggapnya tidak relevan dan perlu ditolak kerana parti itu tidak lagi berjuang untuk bangsa, agama dan tanahair.

“UMNO ternampak dan memang pun benar, berjuang untuk kepentingan orang-orang tertentu dalamnya dan ahlinya sahaja. UMNO berjuang untuk jawatan dan pangkat, untuk memperkayakan diri, untuk sagu hati, untuk poket sendiri,” tulis Mahathir di blognya.

Mahathir berkata pemimpin UMNO kini melariskan budaya memilih orang kurang berkobolehan untuk menyertai parti supaya kedudukan mereka tidak diancam sampai bila-bila.

5 JUN — Akhbar arus perdana The Star milik parti MCA hari ini melaporkan yang Badan Perhubungan Umno Negeri Sembilan telah membuat ketetapan agar jawatan Presiden dan Timbalan Presiden Umno tidak ditandingi.

Alasannya adalah Umno memerlukan perpaduan untuk menyiapkan diri bagi menghadapi Pilihan Raya Umum ke-14. Pastinya semua ahli dan penyokong Umno setuju dengan keperluan Umno membuat persediaan seawal mungkin bagi menghadapi PRU ke-14, tetapi apakah mereka juga bersetuju dua jawatan teratas itu tidak dicabar?

Juga menjadi tanda tanya adakah Umno Negeri Sembilan membuat keputusan itu secara bersendirian atau setelah berunding dan mendapat maklum balas akar umbi?

Pada pandangan saya yang tidak sepertinya, para pembesar Umno wajiblah lebih peka dan menghormati suara akar umbi setelah akar umbi menyelamatkan mereka daripada kekalahan pada PRU 5 Mei lalu.

Ini membuatkan saya berfikir apakah para pembesar Umno benar-benar faham dan peduli kepada denyut jantung orang Melayu biasa yang menyokong parti itu?

Umno dan Melayu bukan inti pati PRU13

Kalau diperhatikan secara terperinci, denyut jantung orang Melayu dan lambang Umno bukanlah inti pati PRU lalu.

Yang menjadi inti patinya adalah 1 Malaysia, batang tubuh Mohd Najib Abdul Razak dan “pemujaan” kepada masyarakat Cina dan India.

Malah rata-rata pemerhati dan pengulas politik berpendapat Mohd Najib mengadakan pilihan raya presiden ala Amerika di mana diri beliau ditonjolkan sebagai pilihan seperti terserlah dengan cogan kata “Sokong Saya Undi BN” dan menonjolkan program-program beliau seperti Pelan Transformasi Ekonomi, Pelan Transformasi Kerajaan yang digula-gulakan oleh segala bentuk pemberian di bawah lambang 1 Malaysia.

BN teruk tiba-tiba Umnolah permata

Tetapi setelah pencapaian BN ternyata hambar akibat apa yang Mohd Najib labelkan sebagai tsunami Cina dan BN diselamatkan oleh Umno, seni kata dan irama tiba-tiba berubah.

Umno dinobatkan sebagai berjaya dan lebih kuat kerana memenangi 88 kerusi Dewan Rakyat berbanding 79 pada PRU 2008.

Soalnya, apakah pencapaian Umno yang lebih cemerlang itu adalah kerana para pembesar Umno mengutamakan Umno dan orang Melayu atau kerana orang Melayu sendiri takut kuasa mereka akan bertambah lemah kalau parti-parti Cina dalam BN menang besar?

Bagi ahli dan penyokong Umno yang memperoleh maklumat daripada media arus perdana, mereka tentulah mendapat gambaran yang BN, khasnya Mohd Najib, melakukan apa saja, termasuk memperluaskan pendidikan Cina dan Tamil, untuk mendapatkan undi Cina dan India.  Mereka tentu membaca, melihat dan mendengar bagaimana Perdana Menteri tidak putus-putus menguar-uarkan penaikan taraf pendidikan Cina dan Tamil, memberi peruntukan tambahan kepada sekolah Cina dan Tamil dan berjumpa berbagai-bagai badan radikal Cina dan India seperti Dong Zong dan elemen Hindraf.

Apa yang dilihat sebagai tolak ansur yang keterlaluan dengan orang bukan Melayu itu mungkin sedikit sebanyak menimbulkan kebimbangan orang Melayu bahawa kuasa mereka akan lebih tercabar sekiranya MCA, Gerakan dan MIC menang besar.

Tetapi yang paling menakutkan majoriti orang Melayu adalah kemungkinan kemenangan Pakatan Rakyat dan kemunculan DAP sebagai pemain dominan politik nasional.

Jadi, apakah Umno menang lebih besar pada PRU lalu kerana Presiden Umno mengutamakan orang Melayu atau kerana orang Melayu sendiri berasa kepentingan mereka tidak lagi diutamakan oleh para pembesar parti maka mereka bertindak memperkuatkan Umno dan orang Melayu dari bawah?

Tetapi harus juga diakui bahawa selain penyokong tradisional, Umno juga mendapat sokongan pengundi atas pagar serta penyokong PAS dan PKR. Banyak penyokong PAS memangkah calon-calon Umno kerana membantah kerjasama parti mereka dengan DAP dan PKR.

Kalau inilah keadaannya maka suara akar umbi adalah sangat penting dalam penentuan kepemimpinan Umno bermula dengan pemilihan pucuk pimpinan tahun ini.

Sangat tepatlah kalau ahli biasa Umno di cawangan-cawangan diberikan muka dan suara untuk menyatakan sama ada mereka mahu jawatan Presiden dan Timbalan Presiden atau mana-mana juga jawatan dipertandingkan atau tidak.

Wajar sangatlah mereka diberikan hak menentukan sama ada mereka mahu Mohd Najib dicabar atau tidak kerana Umno tidak akan memperoleh 88 kerusi keramat itu kalau ahli dan penyokong Umno tidak membulatkan tekad memangkah BN pada 5 Mei lalu.

Mereka juga perlu diberikan ruang dan peluang menyelami hati sanubari mereka sendiri sama ada mereka mahu Mohd Najib yang lebih rendah pencapaiannya kekal sebagai Presiden (dan seterusnya sebagai Perdana Menteri) setelah mereka menunjukkan pintu keluar kepada (Tun) Abdullah Ahmad Badawi yang menang lebih besar pada 2008.

Lagipun, Mohd Najib sendiri berkata selepas mesyuarat Majlis Tertinggi Umno 31 Mei lalu yang Umno mengamalkan demokrasi dan pemimpin bebas dicabar. Tindakan memperluaskan asas pengundian bagi memilih pucuk pimpinan bermula pemilihan kali ini wajiblah dikotakan dan disahihkan melalui tindakan.

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“Untuk ini mereka berusaha mengurangkan kemungkinan diri mereka dicabar, kurangkan kemungkinan diganti oleh sesiapa yang lebih layak. UMNO adalah hak ahlinya, hak pemimpinnya yang sedia ada dan bukan hak orang Melayu. Setelah mereka mendapat tempat jangan benar orang Melayu lain, terutama yang memiliki kebolehan tertentu, menyertai Umno,” selar beliau.

Sekarang, Mahathir berkata UMNO sudah menjadi sebuah parti hanya untuk pemimpin dan ahli semasa, dari ketua cawangan kepada ketua bahagian.

“UMNO tidak perlu tambahan ahli, tidak perlu penyertaan sesiapa lagi kerana ahli yang sedia ada perlu memelihara habuan mereka. Jika terlalu banyak ahli, habuan perlu dikongsi. Dan habuan yang dikongsi tentulah tidak sebanyak sebelum berkongsi,” sindirnya lagi.

Akibatnya, kata Mahathir, mereka terutama yang berkebolehan, yang berbakat tidak dibenar masuk UMMO lagi.

“Yang boleh menyertai hanyalah yang kurang berkebolehan dibanding dengan yang sudah ada. Oleh kerana penyertaan dalam UMNO mestilah melalui cawangan, yang boleh masuk UMNO ialah yang kurang berkebolehan dari ketua cawangan,” katanya.

Mahathir juga menyindir bahawa pemimpin-pemimpin UMNO ini sering terlupa ajal boleh sampai bila-bila masa.

“Ketua cawangan manusia biasa yang boleh diserang penyakit, bahkan boleh mati pun. Satu hari ketua cawangan terpaksa lepaskan jawatannya. Penggantinya tentulah orang yang memiliki kebolehan yang kurang darinya. Dengan itu kebolehan ketua cawangan akan merosot sepanjang masa, tiap kali pengganti mengambil alih. Dan ini akan terjadi dalam keseluruhan parti,” katanya.

Akhirnya, Mahathir berkata UMNO hanya tinggal golongan yang tidak berbakat sehingga semakin kurang ahli yang berbakat dan layak untuk menjadi calon dalam PRU.

“Calon payung terjun yang berbakat akan dikalahkan. Dengan itu pemimpin Kerajaan juga akan terdiri dari yang tidak berkebolehan,” sindirnya lagi.

“Di mana pergi mereka yang berbakat ini?. Mereka pergi ke mana mereka di terima, tentunya parti lawan,” tambahnya lagi.

It’s perhaps the toughest job on planet earth. The undertaking is bloody serious as there’s danger at every turn. The rewards are meagre. On successful return, you get a hero’s welcome. A tragedy could mean no one would touch you with a barge pole. Leading an expedition on Everest is dangerous business, one that could cost lives.  Expedition leaders on Everest have an impeccable mountaineering resume combined with sound knowledge and years of experience. But the era of Hunt’s expeditionary style is now a faint remembrance, only found in books.

Sixty years after the first ascent, climbing Everest has become the high altar of commerce and cutthroat competition where mountaineers who once explored the Himalaya have become proprietors selling Everest.

There are two types of leaders. One who lead commercial expeditions and others who lead national expeditions on behalf of countries whose style and tactics bear some resemblances to classic mountaineering style.

The body of Mohamad Shahrulnizam Ahmad Nazari, who died during an expedition to climb Mount Kala Pathar and to the Everest Base Camp in Kathmandu, Nepal, is expected to be flown home tomorrow.

Putrajaya Corporation (PPj) Public Relations senior deputy director Zaharah Salamat said the body of the assistant engineer with PPj had been taken to Lukla at 3pm yesterday (5.15pm Malaysian time).

However, she said, it could not be flown to Kathmandu due to the foggy weather and limitations to air traffic as it was on a mountain slope.

“We expect to be able to send the body home tomorrow if it arrives safely in Kathmandu today.

“The Malaysian embassy in Kathmandu will use an alternative flight to send the body if we fail to use Malaysia Airlines flight which is scheduled for 12.20pm tomorrow afternoon,” she said in a statement, here, today.

Zaharah said all the other 13 expedition members were reported to be on the descent route in the Dingboche area (near Periche).

The late Mohamad Shahrulnizam, 25, died at 7.15pm (Malaysian time) on Monday at Labuche on the way to the Everest Base Camp after he had acute mountain sickness.

The expedition started on May 27 with 14 climbers (11 men and three women) from the Recreation and Welfare Club of PPj. They were expected to return home on June 10.

There has been a sea change in the way leaders look at Everest. These days, there is no single expedition leader on a commercial climb. The boss who owns the outfit runs the company with a few guides, climbing Sirdars, Sherpas and base camp staff. Back then, before commercial expeditions began, say till the eighties, expedition members did everything from reconnaissance to route opening to load ferries and rope fixing. Now, the Icefall doctors make the Khumbu passable, Sherpas fix the ropes all the way to the summit and guide the clients on the mountain.

Behind every successful expedition on Everest, there is a calm leader. Leader of the NCC Everest expedition, Col.Sharma is also cool and composed with a great sense of humour. With 28 successful expeditions under his belt he was one the most experienced on the mountain this season. He knows the Himalaya fairly well from east to west.  Col.Sharma has a couple of first ascents to his credit. He climbed Indrasan in Himachal Pradesh with the French in 1989 and later in 1993 he was on Neelkant with a multinational expedition in Uttarakhand, both highly technical and difficult peaks.  In 1995, he was on Kabru and Nanda Devi in and in 1997, climbed Jogen I, II & III. In 2000 he was on Mana, considered a highly technical and difficult peak.

Every mountain has its own technicalities and difficulties. And you have approach it with all seriousness and devotion as much as you do it with Everest or any other 8000er, says Col.Sharma who has been a competitive skier as well.

He first went to Everest in 2001 as the deputy leader with the Indian Army expedition. Later he led some fantastic climbs on Annapurna I in 2002 and Kanchenjunga in 2004.

Satish has been lucky, said Wng. Cmdr. Sreedharan, member of Indian Mountaineering Foundation and a member of the 1984 Everest expedition who was at Base Camp immediately after the NCC team’s successful climb.

Col. Sharma ran a tight ship, I guess in the tradition of Col. John Hunt. In fact it was Eric Shipton who was widely expected to be the leader of the 1953 British Everest expedition but Hunt was preferred because of his experience in military leadership.

Col. Sharma chose Wng.Cmdr. Kutty as his deputy, a highly efficient officer and man of many skills. Kutty was on Everest from the North side in 2005. A navigator with the Indian Airforce, Kutty ran the show overseeing almost everything ensuring smooth proceedings from beginning to end. The NCC cadets saw in him an older brother. Amiable, he always exuded an air of pleasantness and sense of camaraderie. For the expedition doctor, Maj. Rahul Mahajan, it was his third trip to Everest. At Base Camp, he was doctor to team members from other expeditions too including the North East and Seven Summits team who didn’t have a doctor on board. The injured and ill woke him up during the dead of the night yet he went about tending with care a smile on his face.

It was the National Cadet Corp’s first ever expedition on Everest and they couldn’t have got a better leader than Col. Sharma. He was caring and exercised caution when it came to the young cadets. He gave clear instructions to his soldiers that they are young boys and at all times they should be taken care. He would always consult with his deputy and team members and warrant their suggestions. There’s nothing called a fool-proof plan on Everest, yet his summit plans were brilliantly accurate. Most importantly, the team returned from the mountain safely. None of them had a scratch.

Like a true gentleman, he offered the best for them. On the mountain and during the entire trip, everyone was equal for him. And deservedly, Col. Sharma was the first among equals.

Tamil actor Dhanush, who is set to make hisBollywood debut with Anand L Rai’s “Raanjhanaa”, minces no words in praising the Oscar-winning music composer of the film, A.R. Rahman, terming him a true Raanjhanaa.

Rahman has also composed music forDhanush’s Tamil film ”Mariyan” releasing May 31.

“According to me, Rahman sir is Raanjhanaa. He has given so much to the film. When you will watch the songs with the film you will understand what I am talking about,” the 29-year-old said here during a press conference for the film Friday.

Hailing the music maestro Rahman for his ability to churning out equally good music for Tamil and Hindi cinema, Dhanush says what Rahman does is very tough.

“What I wonder about him how he strikes a balance, like when you listen to a Tamil song it sounds like a Tamil song and when you listen to a Hindi song it sounds so much like Bollywood. I don’t know how he achieves that its really tough. One should know both the cultures byheart to bring out this kind of perfection,” he said.

Meanwhile, Sonam Kapoor, who is paired opposite Dhanush in the film, says the four times National Award winning music-composer has given her an “identity” with his music, making her feel “privileged” and “blessed”.

Rahman also composed the music of Sonam’s second film, “Delhi 6″, in 2009.

“He gave me an identity with his music and song and his melody. He adds life to everything he does because he is a true genius. He is a true master at his craft. I am just privileged and blessed that I have A.R Rahman giving music for my film,” said the actress who is playing the character of a Muslim girl Zoya in the film.

The love story is slated for release June 21 and has seven compositions by Rahman.

Dhanush, 29, believes that he is a normal person like everybody else, who has made mistakes and has regrets. But he is confident that he has not hurt anybody else consciously, and has not wanted others to not do well. He is emotional and deeply sensitive. He is happy that as an actor, he can trust easily and gets betrayed easily as he needs it. He is extremely focused and believes in the energy of Shiva. Ahead of his first Bollywood film ‘Raanjhanaa’, he talks to TOI about his best friend Sonam Kapoor, the only ‘white’ human being in his life, Aanand L Rai, and why Ilaiyaraaja will always remain his favourite music director. Excerpts:.who she is talking about. Till you realise that the star-beti is talking about Rajinikanth’s daughter Aishwarya, wife of her Raanjhana co-star Dhanush. And to think, one almost got fooled into believing that suddenly the original Ash and Sonam had rediscovered…

Dhanush, who is all set to make his Bollywood debut with Raanjhana, which hits screens on June 21 seems to be already receiving a lot of praise from his co-star. 

The film gave Dhanush an opportunity to meet up with his co-star’s father Anil Kapoor, who has worked with his father-in-law SuperstarRajinikanth. The fathers share a cordial relationship.

After a meeting with Dhanush, the veteran actorsaid that the Superstar and Dhanush have something in common, which is their humility. The Tamil version of the film is called Ambikapathy and will also hit screens on the same day.

How did you get into films?
We were basically from a poor family and most of our childhood was spent in longing only. My parents came to Chennai just before I was born so that my father, who was earlier a worker in a mill in the village, could find a job. We were so poor that my mother had to run a family of six with 15 a day. We did not have a healthy diet and did not grow up on Cerelac and Farex. We survived many a time on curd rice from neighbours. Through his friends, my father joined as an assistant director and assisted for 15 years, after which he became a director. I was the youngest in my family and was given the least importance. My mother is most attached to my brother because she has the feeling that she could not provide him anything. By the time I was born, at least I got a meal and a half a day, but he sometimes got only water. When I was in Class XI, my father got to direct my first film, which had six school kids in it. The lead guy dropped out at the last minute. I was in school and 16 at that time and fit the role perfectly, so my family convinced me over a period of one week to take it up. The film did well, but I was not offered roles as I did not look star material. All the other five kids who were there with me in the film, got work but I did not. I kept blaming my father for pulling me out of my studies. My second film Kadhal Kondaen was directed by my brother Selvaraghavan that turned me overnight into a star.

Who are you most attached to?
I am most attached to my two sons —Yatra (six-years-old) and Linga (three- years-old). Yatra means pilgrimage and Linga because I am a Shiv bhakt. While I do not believe in idol worship, I believe in energy. For me, that one energy is Shiv. Down South, you are not allowed to touch the idol. This was new for me at the Kashivishawanath temple in Banaras and the experience of the arti in the evening was brilliant. Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

How did you meet your wife Aishwarya Rajinikanth?
At the first day’s show of my film Kadhal Kondaen, we as a family went to watch it. By the interval, we were all hugging each other as we knew it would be a hit. Once the film was over, I was about to leave when the cinema owner introduced me to Rajinikanth sir’s daughters Aishwarya and Soundarya. We just said hi to each other and left. The next day, Aishwarya sent me a bouquet saying, ‘Good work. Keep in touch’. I just took that very seriously. She is two years older to me and we got married two years later after we met.

Did the fact that Aishwarya was Rajinikanth’s daughter attract you to her?
I don’t see her like that. I like her simplicity. If you think her father is simple, meet Aishwarya. She is 100 times simpler than her father. She treats everybody as an equal and can be friends with anybody. But I also like that she is extremely complicated. She is a good mother to my sons and is bringing them up extremely well.

Did you have an affair before Aishwarya?
When I was in Class XI, there was a girl whom I loved. I think until now, she is the only girl I have loved, but she dumped me. We loved each other and being 29 today, I know that it was not a high school crush. It lasted only one year and then she went to the US for her studies and I came into films. Once I came into films, I could not concentrate in studies and failed in +2. She needed to make a practical choice and I never ever blame her as I think she made the right choice. We are still in touch on mail with each other once in a while and I know that she will always feel happy for me.

How does it feel to be the son-in-law of Rajinikanth?
There is this space we give each other and have mutual respect. Our relationship is normal and respectful. If he likes a film one does not have to be his son-in-law or anything. No matter who you are, he will pick up the phone, come on line and appreciate your work. After Kadhal Kondaen, one of his guys spoke to me and called me to his farmhouse. He wanted to tell me that he appreciated my work and really liked it. As a person, he is as he is known to the world. There is no different side to him. I have always been a fan of his and still am. Anything can change in my life, but the fact that I am his fan will not change.

What do you feel about the idea of fans creating temples of their favourite stars in the South?
It is absolutely wrong and it should not happen. It is a waste of money and life. It also disrespects the energy of God.

Would you like to direct?
If Raanjhanaa did not happen, I would have directed my first film. I had finalised my script and cast for the film, but then Aanand L Rai gave me a 20-minute brief on the film and I understood what he meant and just knew I had to do it. Now, I don’t know when direction will happen.

Does failure break you down?
No, because I have nothing to lose and am secure and confident. I know my pluses and minuses and know what I am capable of or not. I just want to live up to the expectations of my directors and my sons. Right now, I have been away from my sons for a while and they just expect me to be around them that I have not been able to.

You are staying with your Raanjhanaa director Aanand L Rai in his house while you are dubbing in Mumbai. That’s unusual?
He is straight as an arrow and is extremely positive. He can only think good for everybody, even if someone harms him. In my personal life till date, he is the only ‘white’ human being I have met. Others are all grey.

Do you see yourself making a shift to Bollywood?
I don’t see the industry. I only see the film and North vs South films. I will do any good film irrespective of the language it is in.

Sonam considers you her good friend. What is she like?
There are these two Sonams. I can easily say she is my best friend in the industry. She took a lot of care and effort to make me comfortable. She was really patient when I spoke wrong Hindi on the set. You have to pass through one Sonam to understand the other Sonam and know how beautiful she is. And, I am not talking about her physical beauty. She is straight-forward and transparent and will tell you what is right or wrong. If she likes someone, she will go to any extent for that person.

Kolaveri Di made you a household name in India. Was that a fluke or music has a role in your life?
I do a lot of music down South. I write lyrics and sing Tamil songs and have a lot of interest in music right from my childhood. I can see everything with only a background score. If there is no music, I will perish. While I have not learnt music, I can play the tune that comes into my head on the keyboard.

You are doing now two films with AR Rahman — Raanjhanaa and Mariyaan. Who is your favourite music composer?
Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success… he is in my blood.

Dhanush, 29, believes that he is a normal person like everybody else, who has made mistakes and has regrets. But he is confident that he has not hurt anybody else consciously, and has not wanted others to not do well. He is emotional and deeply sensitive. He is happy that as an actor, he can trust easily and gets betrayed easily as he needs it. He is extremely focused and believes in the energy of Shiva. Ahead of his first Bollywood film ‘Raanjhanaa’, he talks to TOI about his best friend Sonam Kapoor, the only ‘white’ human being in his life, Aanand L Rai, and why Ilaiyaraaja will always remain his favourite music director. Excerpts:

How did you get into films?
We were basically from a poor family and most of our childhood was spent in longing only. My parents came to Chennai just before I was born so that my father, who was earlier a worker in a mill in the village, could find a job. We were so poor that my mother had to run a family of six with 15 a day. We did not have a healthy diet and did not grow up on Cerelac and Farex. We survived many a time on curd rice from neighbours. Through his friends, my father joined as an assistant director and assisted for 15 years, after which he became a director. I was the youngest in my family and was given the least importance. My mother is most attached to my brother because she has the feeling that she could not provide him anything. By the time I was born, at least I got a meal and a half a day, but he sometimes got only water. When I was in Class XI, my father got to direct my first film, which had six school kids in it. The lead guy dropped out at the last minute. I was in school and 16 at that time and fit the role perfectly, so my family convinced me over a period of one week to take it up. The film did well, but I was not offered roles as I did not look star material. All the other five kids who were there with me in the film, got work but I did not. I kept blaming my father for pulling me out of my studies. My second film Kadhal Kondaen was directed by my brother Selvaraghavan that turned me overnight into a star.

Who are you most attached to?
I am most attached to my two sons —Yatra (six-years-old) and Linga (three- years-old). Yatra means pilgrimage and Linga because I am a Shiv bhakt. While I do not believe in idol worship, I believe in energy. For me, that one energy is Shiv. Down South, you are not allowed to touch the idol. This was new for me at the Kashivishawanath temple in Banaras and the experience of the arti in the evening was brilliant. Every man plays many roles. So far, I have played father the best.

How did you meet your wife Aishwarya Rajinikanth?
At the first day’s show of my film Kadhal Kondaen, we as a family went to watch it. By the interval, we were all hugging each other as we knew it would be a hit. Once the film was over, I was about to leave when the cinema owner introduced me to Rajinikanth sir’s daughters Aishwarya and Soundarya. We just said hi to each other and left. The next day, Aishwarya sent me a bouquet saying, ‘Good work. Keep in touch’. I just took that very seriously. She is two years older to me and we got married two years later after we met.

Did the fact that Aishwarya was Rajinikanth’s daughter attract you to her?
I don’t see her like that. I like her simplicity. If you think her father is simple, meet Aishwarya. She is 100 times simpler than her father. She treats everybody as an equal and can be friends with anybody. But I also like that she is extremely complicated. She is a good mother to my sons and is bringing them up extremely well.

Did you have an affair before Aishwarya?
When I was in Class XI, there was a girl whom I loved. I think until now, she is the only girl I have loved, but she dumped me. We loved each other and being 29 today, I know that it was not a high school crush. It lasted only one year and then she went to the US for her studies and I came into films. Once I came into films, I could not concentrate in studies and failed in +2. She needed to make a practical choice and I never ever blame her as I think she made the right choice. We are still in touch on mail with each other once in a while and I know that she will always feel happy for me.

How does it feel to be the son-in-law of Rajinikanth?
There is this space we give each other and have mutual respect. Our relationship is normal and respectful. If he likes a film one does not have to be his son-in-law or anything. No matter who you are, he will pick up the phone, come on line and appreciate your work. After Kadhal Kondaen, one of his guys spoke to me and called me to his farmhouse. He wanted to tell me that he appreciated my work and really liked it. As a person, he is as he is known to the world. There is no different side to him. I have always been a fan of his and still am. Anything can change in my life, but the fact that I am his fan will not change.

What do you feel about the idea of fans creating temples of their favourite stars in the South?
It is absolutely wrong and it should not happen. It is a waste of money and life. It also disrespects the energy of God.

Would you like to direct?
If Raanjhanaa did not happen, I would have directed my first film. I had finalised my script and cast for the film, but then Aanand L Rai gave me a 20-minute brief on the film and I understood what he meant and just knew I had to do it. Now, I don’t know when direction will happen.

Does failure break you down?
No, because I have nothing to lose and am secure and confident. I know my pluses and minuses and know what I am capable of or not. I just want to live up to the expectations of my directors and my sons. Right now, I have been away from my sons for a while and they just expect me to be around them that I have not been able to.

You are staying with your Raanjhanaa director Aanand L Rai in his house while you are dubbing in Mumbai. That’s unusual?
He is straight as an arrow and is extremely positive. He can only think good for everybody, even if someone harms him. In my personal life till date, he is the only ‘white’ human being I have met. Others are all grey.

Do you see yourself making a shift to Bollywood?
I don’t see the industry. I only see the film and North vs South films. I will do any good film irrespective of the language it is in.

Sonam considers you her good friend. What is she like?
There are these two Sonams. I can easily say she is my best friend in the industry. She took a lot of care and effort to make me comfortable. She was really patient when I spoke wrong Hindi on the set. You have to pass through one Sonam to understand the other Sonam and know how beautiful she is. And, I am not talking about her physical beauty. She is straight-forward and transparent and will tell you what is right or wrong. If she likes someone, she will go to any extent for that person.

Kolaveri Di made you a household name in India. Was that a fluke or music has a role in your life?
I do a lot of music down South. I write lyrics and sing Tamil songs and have a lot of interest in music right from my childhood. I can see everything with only a background score. If there is no music, I will perish. While I have not learnt music, I can play the tune that comes into my head on the keyboard.

You are doing now two films with AR Rahman — Raanjhanaa and Mariyaan. Who is your favourite music composer?
Ilaiyaraaja is my most favourite music director. His music was my lullaby, his music was my food, his music was my childhood, his music was my first love, his music was my failure, his music was my first kiss, my first love failure, my success… he is in my blood.

PRIME MINISTER IN WAITING TAN-SRI-MUHYIDDIN-YASSIN’S FIRST MALAYS THE MALAYS WILL FORGIVE “MISTAKES” OF A GOVERNMENT IF IT SERVES THEM WELL. “My definition of Malaysia is simple: ‘Malays First’. Whatever you do, wherever you work, Malays should be the top priority for all its citizens,”Muhyiddin   said as”Country is above all religions and ideologies,” he argued and … Read more

A sharp political divide has  put  Rosmah deep freeze in an election year  and suarakeadilanmalaysia.wordpress. firewall will put Najib in freezer

One more thing we do not know is if the political formations will just go right ahead and change the laws of Malaysia to keep themselves out of all accountability. That may be their privilege.and certainly we do not know how they will go into appeal to the Judiciary. Which they are entitled to. Will they go together, or will they pretend to go separately, or will they really go separately.

Questions, questions, and seldom any answers.

Kedah Menteri Besar Datuk Mukhriz Tun Dr Mahathir said he would campaign for Umno president Datuk Seri Najib Tun Razak and his deputy, Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin if both leaders are challenged in the party election this year.

He said he did not see anyone else qualified for the two top party posts and capable of competing with the two leaders.

Our political formations, across the spectrum, have no hesitation or shame in using every resource possible towards getting across a message that they are not in any way public authorities. Yes, we know that already, most of them are straightforward dynasties. Dynasries are only responsible to their kith and kin. Luckily,  UMNO has a great unbroken tradition of dynasties coming apart, typically in the 3rd or maximum 4th generations.So.We use what we do not know to read between the lines and draw up strategy.What we do not know, for example, is why the all-powerful cybar troopers , which was one of the strongest supporters of the Najib has chosen this time in history to start coming apart. Di Rosmah, for example, have an inkling that this decision was about to find its way into the public domain?

Mukhriz disclosed this when asked to comment on the call that the posts of Umno president and deputy president should not be contested at the party general assembly in October to further strengthen the party in facing the 14th general election besides avoiding factionalism in the party.

Mukhriz, who is also the deputy chairman of the Kedah Umno Liaison Committee, said that personally he felt that as a party that practiced democracy, every post in the party could be contested.

“It is up to the Umno members themselves to decide. For me, whether there is a contest or not, it is the rights of the Umno members themselves. Even if there is a contest, I am confident it will not affect the position of Datuk Seri Najib and Tan Sri Muhyiddin at all,” he said.

Because, decisions like this tend to have an organic effect, they acquire weight and words as files move through the system, plodding from table to table, multiplying exponentially in triplicates and more, asking questions and leaving file notations, and along the way, bouncing off nodes and picking up momentum till they acquire a life of their own, too big to be ignored.

Paper trails are wonderful weapons which people can use.

I saw how it happened the last time. And there is a simple truth in that experience, which has not changed – that at some level or the other, at many levels, in our system, there are people who will quietly but effectively do the correct thing.

They just need that paper to land up on their table.

That is something we know.

All they need is some help from us. We just need to keep asking. In writing.

This decision from the offices of the CIC gives all of us the right to ask the Government, the many arms of our Government, President of India downwards, to give us information on what is being done to implement this decision.

Now you know? Go for it. Don’t be in awe.

The ‘no contest for the top two posts in UMNO’ bandwagon has begun to roll, but in the end whether it succeeds in heading off a fight that may well have damaging consequences is dependent on what one man feels about the whole thing. have ended with Muhyiddin becoming the main challenger.

“My definition of Malaysia is simple: ‘Malays First’. Whatever you do, wherever you work, Malays should be the top priority for all its citizens,”Muhyiddin   said as”Country is above all religions and ideologies,” he argued and asked people to follow the same. ”I agree friends that as a Malay, as a citizen who loves Malaysia, you will also agree with my definition…We might do any work or take any decision, Malays should be supreme,”

“I am Malay first, but being Malay doesn’t mean I am not Malaysian,” said Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin.

He was responding to DAP leader Lim Kit Siang’s challenge earlier today for him to state whether he is a Malay or a Malaysian first.

“He doesn’t understand (what) the meaning of the concept of 1Malaysia is all about,” Muhyiddin told a press conference in the Parliament lobby

He said if a government serve the people selflessly, then they would forgive its mistakes as well.

“When we get a mandate of five years, we must work on that and serve people selflessly. If we do that then people will forgive our mistakes as well,”

No Contest for the Top Posts?

No prizes for guessing the identity of the man. In fact, he has already waded in with preliminary comments that suggest he will push for a contest, but more on that later.

The ‘no contest’ ball was set rolling by Puad Zakarshi, former Deputy Education Minister and defeated UMNO candidate for the Batu Pahat parliamentary seat. There’s no point in going into the reasons Puad gave for his call because it was the usual boilerplate.

Actually, a contest for the top leadership positions in a political party is a healthy thing, especially when it is held after the party had undergone what UMNO suffered at the May 5 general election: a test of popular reaction to its stewardship of the country.

Because UMNO is the dominant party in the ruling BN coalition – it bolstered that position by raising its collection of parliamentary seats from 79 at GE12 to 88 at GE13 – how it has performed its role as national chief steward must be important to the UMNO electorate.

This is more so when the party likes to see itself as democratic. No less than the UMNO President, Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak, averred as much about his party and, on that score, signalled that he was open to a challenge.

UMNO running out of time

But in the indirect mode which is the standard form of Malay political discourse, form is one thing, actual intention another. That is why Malay political discourse is simultaneously fascinating and off-putting. People who camouflage intention behind complex layers of expression must think they have plenty of time on their hands.

Actually, UMNO does not have much time on its hands. It composed itself like it had a lot because after the ruling coalition it dominates suffered the loss of its customary two-thirds parliamentary majority at GE12, it dragged its feet on reform of itself and of the nation, the need for which was the clarion message Malaysian voters sent it at the watershed March 2008 polls.

There was a price to be paid for this lethargy: UMNO-BN incurred the loss of its traditional plurality in the popular vote at GE13, sliding to just over 47 percent of the overall take in comparison with the opposition Pakatan Rakyat’s 51 percent.

First the loss of its parliamentary superiority, then the downdraft in its overall popularity must mean the writing is on the wall for UMNO and its appendages in BN.

But the message of ‘no contest for the two top posts in UMNO’ bandwagon is that things are nice and peachy, so there’s no need to rock the boat with contests for the upper tier of posts that may well sunder the party.

The ‘no contest’ cabal of support is gathering pace. No sooner had Puad aired his view than Negri Sembilan UMNO backed the proposition. Even party Vice-President Zahid Hamidi joined the caravan the other day by saying he thought the call sensible.

But Zahid’s support is suspect and attributable to the Malay mode of indirect discourse.If current Deputy President Muhyiddin Yassin contests Najib for the No 1 post, Zahid, as top Vice-President, stands to benefit because he can then go for the vacant Deputy President’s post. It’s good Malay political form not to seem to overtly want what you covertly covet.

A Mahathir-created problem

If indirection is the preferred mode of Malay political discourse, projection is not far behind as a method by which to hide one’s scheming heart. The eminence grise of UMNO, Dr Mahathir Mohamad, is adept at the art.

One can infer from his latest comments that he wants the UMNO leadership revamped for he believes the party was lucky to win the general election because in general Malay voters opted for the psychological security that UMNO’s patronage affords them to the uncertainties of an Anwar Ibrahim-led Pakatan in which a thrusting DAP would be difficult to contain.

Mahathir said the overweening self-interest of incumbents barred the door to the talented, rendering UMNO bereft of talent and infested with the corrupt and the mediocre.

That UMNO cannot carry on this way and keep Malay support was Mahathir’s warning to the party.

This problem with this narrative is that few these days believe that Mahathir’s 22-year (1981-2003) stewardship of UMNO and Malaysia was a period that emphasised talent over mediocrity, performance over loyalty, probity over corruption, collective interests over partisan considerations.

In fact, majority opinion is coalescing around the position that under his prolonged tenure, the country was built up physically but was emasculated morally.

So his latest posting on his blog is so much projection, attributing to others what he himself was responsible for.Thus indirection and projection combine to undermine the UMNO elector’s grasp of reality which explains the party’s continuing residence in reality-denying mode.

Raising powerful voices for the mother of all causes.Don’t get fooled by Melinda Gates, benign, American-grandma looks.and First Lady of Malaysia 5,000 delegates had gathered in Kuala Lumpur for the 3rd biennial conference of Women Deliver, a punch-packed global advocacy group for the reproductive health of women and young girls founded by Jill Sheffield.

Seven journalists at the KL conference have been invited to a round-table with Ms Gates. Her Press Officer sits beside her, but Melinda needs no prompting; she’s hands-on and knee-deep in the family planning thrust she’s given to the Gates Foundation. So i hit the right button by mentioning Sharmila.
Melinda favourite is Marianne, whom she met in a slum outside Nairobi. When asked why she used contraceptives, she had replied, “I want to bring every good thing to one child before i have another.” This has become a Melinda mantra: “I can relate to that as a mother, and it sums up why i am motivated to do what i’m doing.”

The presence of Melinda Gates is expected. She is as familiar a figure in the hamlets of Bihar and UP as she was at the London Summit on Family Planning last July. Spearheaded by the Gates Foundation, that high-powered pow-wow had led to $2.6 billion being pledged to provide contraceptive access to 120 million more women and girls by 2020. Today, 222 million want it but don’t get it. The fallout is unacceptably high rates of maternal and infant mortality, chronic ill health, unfinished education — and the estimated economic burden of $5.6 billion that all this inflicts on the developing world.
Chelsea Clinton is a surprise. She’s in a poised new avatar, her distinctive curly mane tamed into straight blonde tresses ending in soft swirls. At her plenary, she confides that her most profound influence has been her own grandmother. “There were so many siblings in that age without planned parenthood that, when she was just eight, she was put on a train from Chicago to Illinois City along with her two-year-old sister. Her grandparents weren’t exactly overjoyed, and threw her out at 13 to ‘go earn your own living’. This made my grandmother determined to create a house full of the kind of love and caring which had existed only in her imagination. I’m glad she lived to see her daughter stand for president.”

It’s gratifying to see that Chelsea Clinton is as committed as her father in using her influence for the greater good of global health — also for Gay rights. She came to KL from Myanmar, where “Proctor & Gamble has committed two billion litres of safe water to the Clinton Foundation. That`s saving one life every hour, every day. “

The two Bills, Gates and Clinton; Melinda and now Chelsea. Richard Gere in AIDS. These encounters of the close kind keep convincing me that some celebrities can, and do, bring much more to a cause than merely their name.
This Bihari villager had defied the family power structure and convinced her husband to let her space her pregnancies; Melinda has flaunted her empowerment story to the world. Did she also meet the obstructive saas? She did, and “when i asked her if she saw the difference it made to the health of her daughter-in-law and grandchildren, she ungrudgingly said yes.”

This Bihari villager had defied the family power structure and convinced her husband to let her space her pregnancies; Melinda has flaunted her empowerment story to the world. Did she also meet the obstructive saas? She did, and “when i asked her if she saw the difference it made to the health of her daughter-in-law and grandchildren, she ungrudgingly said yes.”

sebenarnya otak Najib kt lutut..bodoh!ape beza die gn kau?die berpelajaran, kau tidak..sebab 2 kau jd pak turut semata2..heh, ni negara demokrasi la, sape2 pun bleh jd pemimpin.puih!!!NAJIB=ROSMAH boleh

Datuk Ahmad Maslan says there shouldn’t be a leadership challenge in Umno because stability is important. And stability is what the stock market wants. What flawed logic is this? Money over the country’s future? What it points to is an Umno that has not invested in a system that is stable no matter who the leader is. And an Umno that doesn’t trust the wisdom of all its members. Umno and Barisan Nasional have won the elections. They need to decide their leadership because the country needs to move on, not for the sake of the stock market but for the sake of Malaysia.

We are indeed moving on beyond GE13. That is why we must continue to expose Najibs hypocrisy, deceit and outright lies to theUMNO members. Our agenda isn’t finished until this corrupt Najib is finished off., ths  corrupt Najib will use anything legal and illegal to stay on in power.

Each corrupt element at each level of Najib organisational structure will dig in to protect its own turf. Otherwise the whole game is given away-thatNajib has its every finger in the kitty and robbing Malays to the bone. Corruption has already become a cultural thing. Each BN politician is wired up that way. Each  Najib operative right up to their minions at the village level.

We will continue to expose the hypocrisy of Najib who is claiming that it is the vanguard which protects King, religion, race and country. Not in that order of course. It rearranges its priorities. Najib and his gang was once at the forefront in the assault against the Malay monarchy. Now, it is playing the role of a pit-bull body-guarding the Malay Monarchy because such a stand is of strategic importance.

An old doctrine about communication strategy suggests that it is easier to persuade those who know that they are being persuaded. This certainly works in romance. Wooing is wasted on those who are oblivious to its possibilities. But neither individual nor collective assurances of true love work without credibility.  will demand to know what you did with the last five years before they give you another five. Since the obvious answer,Can we be adults, please? Najib so engrossed in their selfish behaviour that he is  more worried about a possible threat to hisr future rather than threat to the ethos of the game. also tied up by the UMNO  constitution which gives great power and almost infalliable stature to the president.The divisions align to Najib … Read more

After the G13 tamasha, it seems that the entire media is  bewildered with NAJIB-ROSMAH and their ways. We still cannot say for clear whether he  last  as  president UMNO time has elapsed  can caretaker division leaders and their  ‘no contest for the top two posts in UMNO’s  resolution,  be accepted by ROS  and imagine  ROS”s plans to clean up the mess?  The obvious that everybody expected happened too soon.Not having any leadership challenge means the selection of UMNO leadership is moved from the General Assembly to some dark corners, moved from the members into the hands of a few. Don’t they care about the voice of the many?

The results of the recent G13 elections do not lend themselves to any one-dimensional extrapolation. But this is precisely what both the victors and the vanquished have done with much relish and alacrity.The dark night between the sunset of a UMNO and the dawn of a new election is a good time for rumination MUHYIDDIN discovered finance minister Najib has been “squeezing the poor” and that “elements supporting laissez faire theory” have forgotten Malays. Najib has been obvious; pale capitalism in office, There is UMNO electoral mathematics in this: mobilise on the basis of identity, and split the majority as far as you can on privilege-poverty lines. This is not an original concept, but when you do not have a new idea an old one is far better than nothing. It has worked before. However, will it work again?The majority of Malays rejected Najib. The fact stays that way despite all the fanciful regression and statistical analyses one can muster by Main stream media with Najib’s Money

THE ONLY MALAY LEADER MUHYIDDIN YASSIN WHO WILL HELP TO REDISCOVER THE HOPE OF MALAYS

 If you cannot Change so you must be changed

The letter written byMuhyiddin  to Najib . What was there in the letter that will  take such a drastic step of not nominating Najib as the next UMNO PresidentDoes it mean that there is zero tolerance in the party for “viewpoint plurality” (rather than for corruption)? Can the party simply not discuss its internal problems, and handle charges against its president leadership without exerting authoritarian measures? The answer is that the contents Muhyiddin ’s letter are indeed damning; and shows Najib and Rosmah in poor light. While the letter is damning enough, it also begs me to ask another question: Who is behind the leak of this internal letter? Is itFT MINISTERTENGKU ADNAN MANSOR TOLD NAJIB THAT WINNING THE UMNO POLLS AND FENDING OFF ANY CHALLENGE TO HIS POSITION ARE MORE IMPORTANT THAN REFORMS  Stone-age politics holds back 21st century Malaysia economy It is once again open season on PM Najib. He presides over the most corrupt BN government has seen, his inertia has infected policy with paralysis, he has no authority except to twitch as desired by puppeteer Tengku Adnan Mansor, he loves power too much to just …Read more

considering how much he benefits if  Adnan Mansor,  Hishamuddin are cut to size? There is more than a small reason to believe this theory.

“Since you talk so much about corruption, can I ask you  as to where did the money come from for toppling Adullah Ahmad Badawithat brought   you to power; Why were you silent when all this was happening without hindrance?”. Good questions indeed. Of course  Adnan Mansor  knew there was illegal money funding his party’s election in . What is Operation   Adnan Mansor? How did this operation enable you buy over a majority delegates fo rthis ? Did you buy out the delegates vote, and their leaders?

Is this the beginning of the end for Najib? Former PM Dr Mahathir Mohamad already started the ball rolling when he said Najib will probably stay on as there are no suitable candidates who can replace him.

Knowing how cunning Dr M is, I am sure he did not mean what he said. Now Zam and former finance minister Daim Zainuddin, both close associates of Dr M, are criticising Najib, calling him a clown. Where is the respect for our PM?

If I can remember correctly, a young student was threatened with the Sedition Act for stepping on the PM’s poster. It looks like there is a big battle ahead for Najib.

The think-tank noted that Malaysia has so far managed to dodge the harmful effects of corruption on the investment climate to remain one of Asia’s most vibrant economies.

But it said that Malaysians had shown they were more politically aware, judging from the increased social media coverage of the polls, and were no longer willing to tolerate corruption.

The results of the recently-concluded general election saw the BN retain power by a simple majority although it lost the popular vote to a resurgent opposition.

BN won 133 seats in the 222-member Parliament against the opposition Pakatan Rakyat’s 89 seats, drawing a weaker score than in Election 2008 and which the think-tank noted has put the 13-party ruling coalition in a precarious position unless it moves to reform the way it has conducted business by tackling corruption seriously.

Datuk Ahmad Maslan says there shouldn’t be a leadership challenge in Umno because stability is important. And stability is what the stock market wants. What flawed logic is this? Money over the country’s future? What it points to is an Umno that has not invested in a system that is stable no matter who the leader is. And an Umno that doesn’t trust the wisdom of all its members. Umno and Barisan Nasional have won the elections. They need to decide their leadership because the country needs to move on, not for the sake of the stock market but for the sake of Malaysia.

MUHYIDDIN GIVE VOICELESS UMNO MEMBERS ‘CHANCE TO BE HEARD’

Muhyiddin is an unusual politician. Perhaps even his worst critics might grant him that.

It is not easy to sum up 2012 without a deep feeling of despair. If 2008 was the year in which some fundamental structural issues with our political system were exposed, 2013 seems to have not only deepened our  understanding  of those shortcomings, but also made us alive to the deepening fissures in the Malay Society.subsequent  callousness  and insensitivity shown by the political class, underlined the fact that  class discrimination is deeply embedded into the societal fabric.subsequent  callousness  and insensitivity shown by the political class, underlined the fact that class discrimination is deeply embedded into the societal fabric.f one were to try and tease out some patterns underlying the events of this year, they might broadly fall under two, somewhat related heads. For one, we are beginning to see the tentative first steps towards the formation of the idea of citizenry; the notion that as citizens there exists a reciprocal responsibility to not only respond to one’s immediate environment, but also play an active role in managing it. Over the last couple of years, the  interest in directly influencing modes of governance has grown; democracy as a practice is increasingly detaching itself from the narrow idea of elections. The political class has not understood this change; one has only to  look  at  the fact that in the recent protests in Kuala Lumpur, virtually no elected representatives, not even local politicians, were involved. When a movement that holds the nation’s attention with such intensity fails to stir  the  representatives of people even a little bit, the schism between citizenry and the polity can be deemed to be enduring.

Najib ’s big battle seems to be with his party that he allegedly leads. Najib is interested in his name not UMNO, his visage, the unquestioned nature of his authority but is deeply uncomfortable with his ideas which are indulged so that they don’t have to be implemented. His critique cuts too deep for it to be actionable, particularly his secound wife. Fortunately for UMNO,own suspicion about power has rendered him incapable of pushing through his ideas with any force. He keeps plugging away in his little laboratories, emerging occasionally to make some pronouncement before diving back away from the real world. It is Najii’s belief that power is contaminating that makes his endeavours and ideas a non-starter. Without exercising power, change is unlikely to come about on its own. By labelling all power regardless of the manner of use as corrupting, he has effectively neutered the power of his own prescriptions.Could it possibly be true? Has Najib begun to believe what some admirers have started to suggest with incremental passion, that he is  Malaysia’s best-ever Prime Minister? The answer must be no. He is clearly not self-delusional.The anti- Muhyiddin capaign in our politics has a fertile past. The good that men do, as Shakespeare noted, is … Read more

In effecti Najib placed himself at an existential cul-de-sac. He is in a position to try and change things with his ideas, but only because of the power he derives as a dynastic leader –a thought that violates the core of the very ideas that he calls his own. The paradox is inescapable-according to his own framework, he has earned the rights he has illegitimately, and therefore everything that follows cannot be put into practice. He has convinced himself without genuine democratisation, all other questions are ‘smoke’ or ‘irrelevant’, and hence need not be engaged with. He rejects the idea of leadership itself in an attempt to efface the power that is his for the asking, at least till 2014. He thus stands perennially on the outside, looking in, disowning all that has led to his leadership, and shying away from any action that is enabled by the illegitimacy of his position. He is the disembodied voice in UMNO head, tentatively issuing abstract conceptual constructs while party tries to make its way forward in an increasingly hostile political landscape. The fatal flaw  is existence of Najib; and because he is only too aware of this, his leadership is almost by definition, a non-starter.

Kadir suggested that it was possible the Malays had seen how the prime minister appeared too willing to curry favour with the non-Malays, and felt worried that if the MCA, MIC or Gerakan won big, their power would be usurped.

“They would have read, seen and heard of how the prime minister unrelentingly went about improving Chinese and Tamil school education, gave additional allocations to these schools, and met with several radical Chinese and Indian groups like Dong Zong and Hindraf,” he said.

“But what frightened a majority of the Malays even more was the possibility of a PR victory and the emergence of the DAP as a dominant player in national politics.

“So, did Umno win bigger in the last general election because its president prioritised the Malays or because the Malays themselves felt they were no longer prioritised by the party leadership, and therefore they acted to ensure that Umno and the Malays are strengthened from bottom up,” Kadir asked.

If this were the case, Kadir said it would only be fair to allow the grassroots to decide on Najib’s fate when polls are called at the end of the year, instead of the party leadership arbitrarily deciding not to allow the party’s presidency to be challenged.Dr Mahathir Mohamad  is saying the truth about UMNO  Malay voters had no other choice.but UMNO not Najib The real truth is that the UMNO is disintegrating. Even before it has got a decent whiff of power. A little hint of it, yes, but the stench of the internal feud is so strong that it is masking … Read more

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IS NAJIB UMNO’S ENEMY WITHIN? MUHYIDDIN YASSIN- GOOD RIDDANCE TO A VERY BAD NAJIB

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NAJIB WANT UMNO TO BE DESTROYED SAID UMNO INFORMATION CHIEF DATUK AHMAD MASLAN.

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Najib’s ‘state of the union’ address. Although not touted as such, the so-called ‘presidential style’ of the Najib Abdul Razak administration is said to be a winning factor for the BN ahead of the 13th general election.

There is no need to go over old ground as to whether a presidential style is a winning formula. We will soon find out when Malaysians go to the polls.

But what is more troubling will be the rising temperature as competition for every vote becomes more intense, and for some quarters, more desperatelike NajibUmno president Najib said Muhyiddin Yassin  weakness is not only due to Umno but to Najib

Key personalities have already sounded the alarm. Former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad  Najib is history

A section of the second Penang bridge which is under construction at Batu Maung here collapsed at around 6.50pm.
The section of about 30m in length had collapsed . READ MORE Section of Second Penang Bridge collapses

A Kadir Jasin says this is because all sorts of rumours and false news can be spread on the devices.

A veteran media practitioner believes that the common smartphone, and its more than common capabilities, may cause trouble in the 13th general election (GE13), if authorities are not prepared for it.

But our biggest ambiguities are moral. If  -power missuse.  is fine, why are bribes bad? If bribes are bad, why is it perfectly legit to have brokers and middlemen? If you hire a broker to find a flat, why is it wrong to hire a broker to buy a why is it wrong to pay speed money to quicken the pace of a file or a permit? If fake encounters are legit and the State can kill bad guys without a trial, why are honour crimes wrong? Isn’t the Panchayat an extension of the State? If the State can give grace marks to pass undeserving students, what’s wrong in an examiner doing it? The dividing line between right and wrong, already thin, begins to blur.

the project commenced in 2007 and was completed in 2009, following which it was handed over to PLUS and Malaysia Highway Authority.

“It was financed by four developers and coordinated by the State Economic Planning Unit (UPEN),” he said.

The four developers are PKNS, Unduh Aspirasi, Taraf Unggul and Semai Ria.

The flyover was opened for use in 2009 but has been closed since December 2012 after the management detected that the pillars had shown some “movements”.

“There is some works carried by PLUS under the flyover,” said Othman, who added that he does not wish to blame anyone for the incident.

Blame Game

He said PKNS will set up a technical committee to identify the root cause of the incident.

“A third party consultant will also be appointed to find the cause and monitor the situation,” he said, while expressing PKNS’s  commitment to resolve the problem.

According to China Press, the bridge was built near the river banks where the soil is loose. The authorities had upgraded its foundation few months ago.

A flyover undergoing repair works collapsed today at Interchange between the Putrajaya Toll Plaza and Putrajaya/Cyberjaya on the Lingkaran Putrajaya stretch here.

However, no one was injured in the incident, said Selangor Fire & Rescue Department assistant director of operations Mohd Sani Harul.It is learnt that the mishap did not affect traffic flow.

The news about the collapse broke out after twitter users started circulating photos of the flyover, which appeared to have broken into two. Twitter users said that the incident happened at about 1pm today.

Ruins of the flyover fell on parts of a Plus-owned highway that has been closed since December last year.

The authorities have yet to confirm the main cause of the incident.

When contacted Plus and PKNS have said they will issue a statement tomorrow.

Meanwhile, the police issued a statement via their Facebook page stating the bridge collapsed at 2.45pm and that it was not open for traffic.

Flyover closed on Dec 7, 2012

Meanwhile Works Minister Shaziman Abu Mansor said that he had ordered for the closure of the flyover on Dec 7, 2012 on safety ground after being informed of its structural defects.

“I signed a gazette to shut down this flyover on Dec 7, 2012, effective until Dec 31, 2013, depending on the completion of the repair works,” he said in a statement today.

Ha also said that an alternate route was created for motorists while inspections could be done by the relevant authorities on this flyover.

Najib :self-inflicted Sex, lies and abuse

In a worrying sign for internal security in Malaysia, investigating agencies believe the recent Lahad Datu Stand Off:is najib’s power game 

PKR communications director Nik Nazmi has demanded that Prime Minister Najib Razak come clean on news reports that the Malaysian government had paid George W. Bush’s speechwriter to promote his administration while attacking Opposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim.

“This has now become an international scandal involving most of the top international press. It is extremely embarrassing for Malaysia’s image to be associated in such a scandal,” Nik Nazmi, who is also the state assemblyman for Kelana Jaya, told a press conference on Wednesday.

“With the election around the corner it is time Najib comes clean on the matter. It is significant that while Najib continues to spend millions of the taxpayers’ money for spin and propaganda, he continues to evade Anwar’s call for a policy debate for the benefit of the Malaysian voters.”
The faithful and the committed fell hook, line and sinker forn’s fulsome praise form Mahathir’s moderation, as is evident from the adulatory res-ponse of his mesmerised audience. But the tension that marked the  Mahathir  relationship in the aftermath of the  Besih 3 is too well documented for this belated appreciation to be anything more than a hollow ploy to widen his constituency.

Politicians are entitled to reinvent themselves. And because we live in an era of instant coffee, they believe, perhaps, that masks can be worn and shed at will and images changed with the wave of Rosmah’s hand. Najib has clearly decided to cast himself in the Anwar mould for his march to PUTRA JAYA again. But can he abandon the muscular brand of politics that has served him so well inMalaysia and made him a runaway success with theUMNO rank and file, for the conciliatory approach that made  effective coalition leader? Can he shrink his 56-inch chest and soften his machismo to deal with the likes of  Taib Mohd, Musa Aman Mahathir i and Sharizat?

The True Najib

Malaysians long yearning for a change applauded him.  There were skeptics, of course.

Alas that was last week.  This week the hopes of those citizens were cruelly crushed when they saw the real Najib with the announcement of his new cabinet.  Far from being a team that would wow Malaysians, Najib’s cabinet was, as Tunku Aziz put it, “a team of recycled political expendables.”  And a bloated one at that!

The skeptics were right; Najib’s earlier act was nothing but a big and cruel tease.

“a political philosophy which holds the state to be undesirable, unnecessary, or harmful, or, alternatively, as opposing authority or hierarchical organization in the conduct of human relations. Proponents of anarchism, known as “anarchists,” advocate stateless societies based on non-hierarchical voluntary associations.”

It is no secret that Muhyiddin Yassin harbours the ambition to replace Najib Tun Razak as Umno president and prime minister, according to DAP veteran Lim Kit Siang.

He said that Muhyiddin hoped to achieve this by appearing to be more Malay than Najib.

“Many within Umno are waiting to see Najib do worse than Pak Lah [Abdullah Ahmad Badawi] in the next general election so that they could boot him out and replace him with a ‘Malay first’ Umno prime minister,” he added in a statement.

It was under Abdullah’s watch that Umno and Barisan Nasional suffered its worst ever electoral outing in 2008 just four years after Abdullah secured the ruling coalition’s biggest ever mandate.

In the aftermath of the polls, daggers were drawn and Abdullah was forced to relinquish his post to Najib in 2009. And now history could repeat itself.

Meanwhile, Lim also recalled how Muhyiddin did not give Najib any support for his 1Malaysia slogan as exemplified by his statement in Parliament that he was Malay first and Malaysian second.

Speculation of a rift between Najib and Muhyiddin had been rife for months despite the two leaders claiming otherwise.

It was often said that Najib’s numerous initiatives to attract non-Malay voters had ruffled the feathers of the ultras in Umno, who viewed it as a concession in terms of Malay supremacy and this group had gravitated towards Muhyiddin.

When opening Perkasa’s inaugural annual general meeting in 2010, former premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad had said that the sudden mushrooming of Malay non-governmental organisations reflected Umno’s weakness in defending the rights of the Malays.

He added that NGOs like Perkasa would cease to exist when Umno regained its strength to defend the rights of the Malays.

Over the months, there had been no shortage of conspiracy theories, linking the numerous scandals such as the National Feedlot Centre fiasco to Muhyiddin, who apparently had the backing of Mahathir.

Observers also find it difficult to dismiss talk that Muhyiddin was also behind the latest revelations involving former inspector-general of police Musa Hassan and carpet dealer Deepak Jaikishan.

The world of Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Tun Razak and his wife, Rosmah Mansor appears in increasing danger of coming apart because of sensational revelations by Rosmah’s former personal friend hinting at complicity in the six-year-old murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibu. Najib’s brother Nazim has now been enmeshed in the scandal.

The 28-year-old Altantuya was shot in the head twice and her body was blown up with C4 plastic explosives, possibly to hide an unborn child, in October 2006 by two bodyguards from Najib’s personal unit. One of the two confessed that they were to be paid RM100,000 to get rid of the woman, who had been jilted by Najib’s best friend, former security analyst Abdul Razak Baginda.

The two have been on death row for three years. The confession, despite the fact that it was a cautioned statement, was never introduced in court and the individual who offered to pay to have Altantuya killed has never been named.

The big question being asked all over Kuala Lumpur is who, if anybody, put the businessman Deepak Jaikishan, who once said he was as close to Rosmah as if she were his sister, up to the revelations, which began just before the three-day United Malays National Organization’s Annual General Assembly which started Nov. 28.

Najib should be thankful to the Malays for delivering the electoral victory. Zainuddin Maidin  echoed Mahathir and other figures in asserting that the Chinese had shown disloyalty by deserting the Barisan. an UMNO source told Asia Sentinel. “He should go if you ask me. I’d much rather have Muhyiddin. UMNO is particularly upset as we told … Read more

Musa Hitam lashed out Tun Mahathir who have been mounting a psychological campaign against the PKR-DAP-PAS partnership For the last few months one would be forgiven for believing that the lunatics have been running the asylum called the UMNO-BARISAN, so inconsistent and muddled their actions have been. But after yesterday, it is worth asking if even the lunatics are in charge. Enough has been said about the incomprehensible strangeness of the government’s actions, and in any case this level of mismanagement is so self-evident that additional comment is unnecessary. What is interesting however is to ask what would make a group of reasonably savvy, seasoned politicians used to exercising and staying in power act in such a self-defeating manner.eventually ANWAR lost  patience with  UMNO.

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An Intent to Deceive UMNO Members , will MUHYIDDIN GIVE VOICELESS UMNO MEMBERS ‘CHANCE TO BE HEARD’“ how the prime minister Najib unrelentingly went about improving Chinese and Tamil school education, gave additional allocations to these schools, and met with several radical Chinese and Indian groups like Dong Zong and Hindraf,and cheated the umno members of their assets it would only be fair to allow the grassroots to decide on Najib’s fate when polls are called at the end of the year, instead of the party leadership arbitrarily deciding not to allow the party’s presidency to be challenged.

It is not premature  to talk about the new class war in UMNO. For Najib it will be war against  DPM Muhyiddin to t finish off. To say Muhyidin is expendable and easily forgotten if he can be held captive to the number two post” is to underestimate the DPM’s acumen, tenacity and political resilience.Muhyiddin is an unusual politician. Perhaps even his worst critics might grant him that.

It is not easy to sum up 2012 without a deep feeling of despair. If 2008 was the year in which some fundamental structural issues with our political system were exposed, 2013 seems to have not only deepened our  understanding  of those shortcomings, but also made us alive to the deepening fissures in the Malay Society.subsequent  callousness  and insensitivity shown by the political class, underlined the fact that  class discrimination is deeply embedded into the societal fabric.subsequent  callousness  and insensitivity shown by the political class, underlined the fact that class discrimination is deeply embedded into the societal fabric.f one were to try and tease out some patterns underlying the events of this year, they might broadly fall under two, somewhat related heads. For one, we are beginning to see the tentative first steps towards the formation of the idea of citizenry; the notion that as citizens there exists a reciprocal responsibility to not only respond to one’s immediate environment, but also play an active role in managing it.

  Najib’s cronies holding corporation

Former UEM and Renong Supremo Tan Sri Halim Saad revealed that he was denied the option to MBO and taking it private by then Economic Adviser to Government Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yackop. Instead Nor Mohamed induced Halim to leave the board of both companies, sold his holdings of and eventually both company were acquired by Khazanah Holdings Bhd.

Nor Mohamed also was instrumental on Federal Government spending of big monies on consultancy advice from firms such as Bina Fikir, Ethos and foreign firms for policies, strategies, blue prints, ‘rebranding’, ‘Wide Asset Unbundling’ and even operational programs. Telekom Malaysia’s operational issues were brought to McKinsey to be resolved. The National Automotive Policy introduced almost saw the slow demise of national car project Proton.

The Edge Review said the suit, set to be one if the biggest corporate battle in the country, will expose for the first time the “behind-the-scenes dealings in several multibillion dollar transactions and contract awards that shaped corporate Malaysia between the mid-1980s and the early part of this decade”.

“Businessmen familiar with the situation say that Dr Mahathir told Halim that he had been informed by Nor Mohamed that the assets taken over by Khazanah belonged to Umno,”

Tycoon Tan Sri Halim Saad has mounted a massive legal challenge against the government to demand full settlement of an over RM2 billion deal that forced him to relinquish his controlling stake in Renong Bhd more than a decade ago.

According to digital business magazine The Edge Review, Halim, once the sole corporate nominee of the ruling Umno, was offered RM1.3 billion in cash and property as well as control of a private waste management company, roughly valued at RM2 billion, in exchange for his disposal of Renong in the 2001 agreement.

But citing people familiar with Halim’s suit, the magazine reported that the business magnate had since only received RM165 million despite giving up his business empire and will be demanding the remainder.

“Halim held numerous meetings with Dr Mahathir — even after the latter quit as premier in November 2003 — and Nor Mohamed to push for a full settlement but he was repeatedly fobbed off,” the article said.

“Some time in April 2010, Halim met with Dr Mahathir to try to seek a resolution to the matter but was told that the government would not be honouring the agreement.

“Businessmen familiar with the situation say that Dr Mahathir told Halim that he had been informed by Nor Mohamed that the assets taken over by Khazanah belonged to Umno,” it added.

The Edge Reviewsaid Halim then met with Tan Sri Nor Mohamed Yakcop, then a minister in the Prime Minister’s Department in charge of the Economic Planning Unit, who confirmed Dr Mahathir’s words.

According to the magazine and StarBiz today, Nor Mohamed, the Malaysian government and state-owned strategic investment fund Khazanah Nasional Bhd have been named as defendants in multibillion ringgit suit that was filed in April this year.

In the statement of claim sighted by StarBiz, Halim is alleging that the parties had signed the 2001 and/or another 2003 agreement with him with “an intent to deceive him or induce him to enter into both agreements”.There is no harm in giving in to desire once in a while, but are you fooling yourself by demanding ‘wants’ as ‘needs’ you are entitled to? Realpolitik will push  one malaysia into a new social contract. This will not be achieved by moral lectures to politicians. Rather, a new equilibrium will evolve that enables business … Read more

The Edge Review said the suit, set to be one if the biggest corporate battle in the country, will expose for the first time the “behind-the-scenes dealings in several multibillion dollar transactions and contract awards that shaped corporate Malaysia between the mid-1980s and the early part of this decade”.

“Among other things, the executives say that Halim’s suit will provide insights into how Umno created a political money-making machine around Renong and its associated concern, United Engineers Malaysia Bhd (UEM).

“It will offer Halim’s account of how he ceased to be a business nominee of Umno and also provide a personal confession of the gruelling years the businessman went through as he battled to keep debt-laden Renong afloat,” the magazine wrote.

Halim, who was in 1984 taken in by former Finance Minister Tun Daim Zainuddin to become Umno’s sole corporate nominee, had built Renong and UEM into Malaysia’s largest conglomerate, with ventures in the banking, construction, telecommunications, real-estate development and tolled-roads industries.

The Asian financial crisis of 1997 led to the fall in Renong’s share prices and according to The Edge Review, exposed the conglomerate’s poor cash flow and large debt burdens.

According to StarBiz, a business manoeuvre that year in UEM’s purchase of a 32.5 per cent block of shares in Renong did not go down well with the investing public.

“To appease the market, Halim had, in 1998, offered to buy the Renong shares from UEM by way of a ‘put option’,” the business section of English daily The Starreported today.

“The option price for the ‘put’ was RM3.2 billion, which he was to pay in four instalments three in RM100 million instalments and the balance with interest on February 14, 2001, when the option was due.

“Halim was reported to have paid the first RM100 million but could not pay up the second when it was due, which was when Khazanah took over.

“The sovereign wealth fund took UEM private in 2001 and later cancelled the option,” it reported.

According to The Edge Review, it was Dr Mahathir who stepped up pressure on Halim in 2001, which eventually led to his disposal of control over Renong.

The former prime minister had purportedly instructed Halim to meet with Nor Mohamed, who was then economic adviser, and the latter was to arrange for the government’s purchase of the tycoon’s interest in Renong.

Citing close associates of Halim, Dr Mahathir’s reason was merely that the one-time Umno corporate nominee “no longer enjoyed public confidence”.

The digital magazine said Halim did not agree at first, insisting that Renong did not need a bailout as the group had enough assets to cover its outstanding loans.

“The Mahathir administration saw things differently,” The Edge Review wrote. “The group’s slow progress in restructuring its roughly RM13 billion debt was placing a huge strain on the national banking system.”

Under pressure, Halim subsequently gave up his stake in exchange for the nearly RM2 billion deal and Khazanah subsequently took UEM private in 2001.For the media is increasingly filled with the same kind of tactics that politicians have forever been accused of: hyper aggressive, unbothered about the law, abusive in language, attacking each other without any proof, etc etc. The truth is that even more than politicians, it is the media now that should be accused of adopting …Read more

Rosmah says M’sian women already emancipated

The Mongolian delegation at the Global Summit of Women in Kuala Lumpur has urged the Malaysian government to provide answers on the mysterious death of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu in Malaysia.

To the world reading this. 1. “First Lady” is for the President or King or Emporer’s wife. NOT a Prime Minister’s wife. 2. How can a profesed Muslim women who has completed Hijrah and not wear a tudung as required? 3. Is she an exception? 4. Words from a person who do not fear Allah, are words of the Devil. Would you believe it?Remember the days when a “good” movie (meaning one that you intended to watch!) was defined by (a) genuine rave reviews written by unbiased journos, or (b) fantastic word-of-mouth publicity by those who had already seen it?

Of course, if you had your own reasons for checking out the film—for instance, you liked the star-cast or the music, or the director’s past efforts had impressed you, and so on—you would see it anyway and whether or not the movie lived up to whatever expectations you had was a different matter. Simple, uncluttered decision-making process, to be precise.

Malaysian women are already emancipated, and so, there is no need for them to take to the streets to fight for their rights, said the prime minister’s wife Rosmah Mansor.

Remember the excesses of the misuse  of woman? Remember how these made  emancipated M’sian women  the ‘F’ word of Rosmah’s politics for well over a decade? So, it’s akin to culture shock to hear it being brandished khullam-khulla by the likes of the First Lady of Malaysia,  Melinda Gates, Chelsea Clinton, Barbara B Bush (that’s the daughter, not the mother), an ex-president of Finland, the prime minister of Malaysia, the Crown Princess of Denmark, and the First Lady of Zambia. Along with 5,000 delegates, they had gathered last week in Kuala Lumpur for the 3rd biennial conference of Women Deliver, a punch-packed global advocacy group for the reproductive health of women and young girls founded by Jill Sheffield. Don’t get fooled by her benign, American-grandma looks.  French lawyer William Bourdon, who represents Suaram in the Scorpene case, has indicated that he is willing to brief the Malaysian parliament on the matter.    NAJIB’S ROMANTIC DREAM WITH MONGOLIAN GHOST ALTANTUYA SHAARIIBUU Young Malaysian Journalists Club president Dzulkarnain Taib question Suaram interest in scorpene  honorary consul of mongolia: altantuya’s father gave all … Read more

Today’s situation is in rapier contrast. With technology trying to simplify (what was that again?) things, zeroing down on a movie to “partake of its audiovisual delights” (meaning: to watch for the sake of enjoyment, silly! After all, putting it “simply” is so passé now!) has become…phew !….oh-so-difficult.

Why? Because the electronic media has never had it so good—film producers are pouring in megabucks (where do they get that kind of moolah from, anyway ?) to have their films hysterically hyped, especially on the idiot box (so aptly named !). So what do we have?

Films declared “blockbusters” and “huge hits” long before they’ve seen the light of day, the stars hijacking every possible reality show being aired at the time and promos pushed down your throats till they come out of your ears and you are finally convinced (or at least struck to a state of incomprehension) to watch the movies. mongolian mothers. It is good enough if u can depart safely. Worse if u are deported immediately. Worst if u disappear without records of entering Malaysia. Standard answers will be “dont meddle with our judiciary system”. Perhaps u can come back in 2019 (after 14th GE), to request the case to be re-opened. By that time, probably the accused will be on wheelchair already..Beauty of a Woman The beauty of a woman is not in the clothes she wears, The figure she carries, or the way she combs her hair. The beauty of a woman must be seen from her eyes, Because that is the doorway to her heart, The place where love resides. The beauty of a … Read more

Inane questions fly around like bats in a belfry—Has the star become the next No. 1? Is he/she going to sweep all the awards this year? Did the hero do those amazing stunts himself? And the creme-de-la-crème, Is there something brewing between the stars? Then frenzied crowds rush to the theatres on the first day of the show and again such scenes outside the halls are beamed into our living-rooms, as if to justify the claims made in the promos we had been bombarded with for the last couple of weeks. Human as we are, we do start getting convinced and most of us end up watching those films.

Ah, here the scene undergoes a change! The movies in question turn out to be squibs and a very, very f-a-r cry from the winners they had been made out to be. Period. By then, of course, the media blitzkrieg has been withdrawn and shifted elsewhere, more often than not to another mega movie!Do men really hate women? It would seem they do; why else would there be so many cases of aggression against women — rape, acid-throwing, wife-beating, burning for dowry? Short of such crimes, men also get a kick out of scaring a woman. A shaken friend recounts an incident in the car park, when four … Read more

Two weeks post-release, the films have been taken down from the theatres and quietly replaced by other lesser-hyped but maybe better films which no one will see because no one will know about them! In this whole crazy rigmarole, the TV channels would have minted money, the stars would have hiked their prices ridiculously high (or at least the unsuspecting public would be led to believe by the stars’ hangers-on), and the producers would have earned enough to invest in another similar venture. (I really don’t know how the film distribution industry works, so I won’t be able to vouch for the kind of business generated here). But what I am concerned with is the plight of the poor viewer—you and me—who spends time, money and energy in seeing movies which he/she had been promised would give him entertainment with a capital E! What about him/her? Or does anybody care? In fact, numbed by the hype and the hoopla by then, does the viewer him/herself care any more?

That is what I would say is a scary screenplay. The fiendish publicity campaigns take over our sense and sensibility and we are hypnotized into applauding snazz without substance! A pity, really. Especially because really good movies made from the heart are side-stepped just because they weren’t peddled “right.” Commercial “masala” films have their own USP and will get their typical audiences with or without the frenzied ad campaigns. Why try to brainwash the public with false inputs? That is just not done, don’t you think? Just give us the sneak peeks and if we like what we see, we will throng the theatres—it’s that simple. I am sure the audience would like to be given credit for some brains and good judgment, huh?

Pray tell me which law Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi have  not broken to stay in power.es, let’s dig into his past and recover any bullets that can shun him from holding his ‘samseng’ role.It’s really a shame! people like him will do anything just to remain in power.

Which body is responsible to investigate this offence? MACC,PDRM or the EC? Get cracking whoever is responsible. Meanwhile, Rafizi, they my be witing for a police report. Please help them. Sue this idiot big time. Pressure on the past assault case. Let’s this idiot having more sleepless night so that this idiot will come out with some other joke of century statements to get the Rakyat-Rakyat entertained. Many offenses here. 1. Exceeding the Rm200k not allowed by the Election Offences Act. 2. Vote buying 3. Corruption

Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi had violated the Election Offences Act 1954 when he spent more than the mandated RM200,000 while campaigning during the 13th general election, alleged PKR.

Evil at its Worst, and Conspiracy at its Highest. Justice will not be served This drama was expected before the UMNO election.

Ahmad Shabery who is also Communications and Multimedia Minister said Umno’s performance in the GE13 was very encouraging in which the 88 seats were very close to the tally of 89 seats won by parties under Pakatan Rakyat.

“Datuk Seri Najib also secured the support of many Urban Malay voters despite claims that the party had lost the favour of the urban Malays,” he told reporters after attending a community function at Felda Neram Satu here today.Ahmad Shabery who is also Kemaman MP, said Najib was instrumental in the various transformation to the Umno election system, which ensured that democracy continues to thrive in the party. Umno Supreme Council member Datuk Seri Ahmad Shabery Cheek has urged Umno members to continue supporting Datuk Seri Najib Razak as party president, should there be a contest for the top party post this year.

Once image smeared, can never be cleared ever… Is Najib afraid of losing  why talk about ‘no contest for the top two posts in Umno? must revert to the original objectives of helping the Malays and not it’s members only ….and give up corruption and racism like the UMNO of 1946 The dark night between the sunset … Read more

 Our symphaties are with these 2 stupid,obedient UTK personnels who were sent to the gallows for obeying orders from higher up and the main actors are walking free with millions in their bank account.Mistrial is not quite the word here, rather a mockery of the judiciary when the motive of the killing was not even brought up by the prosecution and neither did the judge see fit that one was needed. After all the implicated players was then the DPM and his ally. These 2 cops are sacrificial pawns in a game of chess. Now that a mistrial has been granted, it is up to the AG to seek a new trial and if a new one is sought there is enough doubt that can be raised by the defence to acquit the 2 cops. Meanwhile the mastermind gets of scot free.On paper, the facts of the case are simple and straightforward enough. 2 lowly members of a VIP’s security detail suddenly were together struck insane and for no rhyme or reason went and bombed an insignificant foreigner who was never in Malaysia. So why is a hot-shot prosecutor, a Tun no less, involved? If the trial was a mistrial, and I believe most of us think it was, does its invalidity or inconclusiveness not apply to the entire proceedings instead of to Sirul’s case only? If it is considered to be so, does it not mean that the trial would have to be exercised all over again? What a drama….Najib & Abdul Razak sound familiar..the ghost of the lady appears again…he director and the actors in this life may escape the rope in this Altantuya’s play but the karma will hang them in their next lives. Truth can be manipulated for now but Righteousness will catch them later.

The Court of Appeal has allowed former Special Action Force personnel Sirul Azhar Umar to apply to declare a mistrial in the case involving the murder of Mongolian national Altantuya Shaariibuu.

The prosecution did not object? Not even a token of objection? Shocking! Are they saying they’ve wrongly prosecuted him in the first place? This calls for heads to roll in the AGC for yet another sub-standard professional judgment on their part,The most shocking is Deepak publicly revealed the culprits involved in the killing of the poor mother, but nothing was done to do justice for her family. The other revolting acts are the Prosecution, together with the DEFENCE team & the whole judiciary conveniently ignored the facts concerning the C4 explosives & refused to find out where & how the highly controlled military C4 explosive were obtained to kill the poor woman. It’s common sense any normal person would surely demand to know how the C4 were obtained which is still the best kept secret in the trial. And the most essential element; what was the motive to drive these two fellas to kill Altantuya was never pursued by all parties in this terrible episode. Mongolians are all watching.The world is watching this episode again unfolding. And above all, Allah is watching! You cannot hide from the truth & justice shall prevail in good time. Allah have mercy on those responsible for any cover up in the killing of an innocent girl.readmoreNajib instructed Zulkifli Noordin reprensent Azilah Hadri Sirul Azhar, Najib instructed Cecil on SD2 and no appeal on Baginda

In a society that respects human rights and the rule of law, these criminal policemen would have been arrested and charged forthwith. But in this particular case, the policemen who were involved in causing Dhamendran’s death have been given desk jobs instead of being suspended immediately!

And for the home minister to even suggest that if they were to be suspended from duty that it would demoralise the police force, only exposes his extreme ignorance and lack of respect for the human life.

It is tantamount to admitting that the entire police force condones this despicable conduct within the force. This surely cannot be true? The entire police force can never be that heartless and ruthless. It is the black sheep in the police force who are the exception. They must be weeded out and punished to safeguard the good name of the police force.

These criminals must not be protected, as doing so would only tarnish the image of the police force and cause the loss of confidence by the public in their ability to act honourably and with integrity.

This is all the more reason why we need to establish the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) urgently, so that swift action can be taken against the wrong-doers in the police force. On an urgent basis we need a body that owes no allegiance to the powers-that-be to investigate the misdeeds of the police without any bias.

Aliran urges the prime minister to dismiss Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who seems to be an ill fit to head this important ministry. He doesn’t seem to respect the sanctity of human life and is totally incapable of inspiring trust in his leadership.

Not only did Dhamendran die during his brief stewardship, but there were two more other deaths, thus bringing the total to three. On May 26, R James Ramesh died in police custody in Penang and on June 1, engineer P Karuna Nithi died in Tampin while under police custody. This is totally unacceptable.

Aliran also urges the PM to order the inspector-general of police to arrest and charge the four policemen who are implicated in the death of Dhamendran without any further delay. There should be no dragging of the feet because a life has been brutally taken away – rendering a young wife a widow, a two-year-old son without a father and his parents, the loss of a beloved son.

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”

In the first five months of 2013, there were eight deaths in Police custody (Suaram monitoring group).In January there were two cases – Chang Chin Te ( Subang Jaya) and C. Sugumaran (Hulu Langat).  In February we had Mohd Ropi (Temerloh); in March there was a John Doe (Seri Alam, Johor) and M. Ragu, (Kampar).

In May we heard about N. Dharmendran (KL) and Jamesh Ramesh  (Penang) and in June we had P. Karunanithi (Tampin). These deaths provoke many questions but one stands out; how is it possible that no one saw or heard anything?

The rogue Policemen who tortured the detainees were not alone in the building. Other Policemen were on duty and must have seen or heard something.

Why are they silent?

A few months ago, an Indonesian female worker was allegedly gang-raped by three Policemen in a Police station.Was the complex deserted? What other sordid activities take place in our police stations? Why are good, honest cops afraid to intervene or report these crimes?

We hear of the deaths in Police custody only because a body has to be claimed by family members, from a morgue. What about the men who are beaten senseless until an inch of their lives? What about the men who become unconscious from the torture but who are then revived and made to undergo the same ordeal, again?

Do Policemen who witness crimes in their police station, have to turn a blind eye to their miscreant colleagues?Were they threatened? Did the rogue policemen receive orders from the top and so no one dared challenge them?

Najib’s government only reacts

Are prisoners who are witnesses to the Police brutality warned to keep silent? There must be police procedures to prevent sadistic Policemen from satisfying their lust for violence on defenceless men.

When a death in Police custody is reported, the rakyat can expect one of the following responses: The man who died was not a victim of beating and torture during interrogation. The Police will claim that there was no foul play. The dead person was said to have died from sudden death, a weak heart, an asthma attack or a fall down the stairs.

What has been the usual response of the minority government of Najib Abdul Razak? Did the Police force, which is under the Home Ministry crack down on Police brutality and re-examine the standard operating procedures (SOP)? Did it force an immediate investigation into these unexplained deaths?

No. Najib’s government merely reacts.When your hand touches something hot, you pull your hand away. That is how Najib responds; instead of being pro-active and taking the initiative, his government simply reacts to stimuli, like a slug reacts to salt.

Malaysians are familiar with the tricks used by the government to try to reduce the severity of the situation. With the collusion of the Home Ministry, the Police will attempt to cover up the existence of rogue policemen, keep us in the dark, claim the CCTV was malfunctioning and make it impossible for the families to gain answers to questions about the deaths of their family member.

Only when the government is forced into a corner do the ministers and police react.We also know that if an inquest is held about these deaths, the proceedings will be subject to many delays.

IPCMC is not a new idea

Are there any law abiding Policemen who will blow the whistle on crimes within the force? Are they afraid for their security? Is there a culture of fear within the Police force? Do the Policemen have no conscience?

This writer knows of a few Policemen who have resigned and sought employment elsewhere. Theirs was a difficult decision, as their fathers and grandfathers were once proud members of the police force.

These men could not condone what they witnessed within the Force and they have advised their children not to join the police, thus depriving their family of a respected tradition, and the nation of loyal citizens who are proud to serve their country.

For years, the rakyat has demanded the setting up of the Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) but the government dragged its heels.

With an enraged public, current and former public officials are now trying to get on the right side of the rakyat.

Former IGP Musa Hassan now claims that he had once supported the formation of the IPCMC. When he retired, he claimed that his political masters interfered in his job. Why does he speak out only after he has left office and is powerless to stem the rot or correct the system?

When the three Policemen were charged in court for Dhamendran’s murder, even the Attorney-General Abdul Gani Patail tried to claim credit for the swift action. What would his reaction have been if there had been no public backlash?

Despite the seriousness of the custodial deaths, Home Minister Ahmad Zahid Hamidi cannot make up his mind about the IPCMC and said, “We need to get feedback and discuss with NGOs.”

The IPCMC is not a new idea which was mooted yesterday or last week. It was suggested years ago. Both Zahid and his predecessor are clueless about what goes on in the country and have no real intention of restoring public confidence in the police force.

Zahid is disingenuous when he said that he wanted to remove the errant Policemen from the force.He said, “Dhamendran’s death while in police custody is a tragedy that I hope will not occur again”. (sic.)

How many more deaths in custody before Zahid has the political will to act? Zahid also said, “The charging of the police personnel is a first step towards ensuring no more such deaths will happen in custody.”

If he were to recall the case of Kugan who died in police custody in 2009, he would remember that the sentence given to the Policeman who killed Kugan was ridiculously short.

So far, Najib has maintained an undignified silence over these killings by policemen.In civilized countries, the Prime Minister would have ordered an immediate investigation and demanded answers from his IGP, or his resignation.

Malaysia has a long track record of Police brutality. Both the Home Minister and the IGP are paid handsomely for their senior positions. The buck stops with them and they should tender their resignations.

Whatever punishment is given to the three policemen (apparently one other suspect is still at large) and whatever moves that are made to prevent further deaths in custody, it will be too late for the families of the victims. They must endure a lifetime of being without their loved ones.

Mariam Mokhtar

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The leg glance was, after all, an Indian invention

It was almost love at first sight for you two. People who saw you too couldn’t help but comment on your chemistry.

And as if it wasn’t enough both of you hit it off like a house on fire. All was hunky-dory for the first few months. However, of late you have began to notice that there’s no spark in the relationship anymore. Sometime you just don’t care to go out of your way to accommodate him and vice versa. Does it mean the chemistry has fizzled out? The following signs signal the end of a relationship.

College-aged women have negative opinions about sexually promiscuous female peers and consider them as unsuitable for friendship, a new study has suggested.

The study by Cornell University developmental psychologists also found that the participants’ preference for less sexually active women as friends remained even when they personally reported liberal attitudes about casual sex or a high number of lifetime lovers.

Men’s views, on the other hand, were less uniform – favouring the sexually permissive potential friend, the non-permissive one or showing no preference for either when asked to rate them on 10 different friendship attributes.

Men’s perceptions were also more dependent on their own promiscuity: Promiscuous men favoured less sexually experienced men in just one measure – when they viewed other promiscuous men as a potential threat to steal their own girlfriend.

The findings suggest that though cultural and societal attitudes about casual sex have loosened in recent decades, women still face a double standard that shames “slutty” women and celebrates “studly” men, said lead author Zhana Vrangalova, a Cornell graduate student in the field of human development.

The study reported that such social isolation may place promiscuous women at greater risk for poor psychological and physical health outcomes.

Vrangalova said that for sexually permissive women, they are ostracized for being easy, whereas men with a high number of sexual partners are viewed with a sense of accomplishment

She said that prior research showed that men often view promiscuous women as unsuitable for long-term romantic relationships, leaving these women outside of many social circles.

For the study, 751 college students gave info about their past sexual experience and their views on casual sex.

They read a near-identical vignette about a male or female peer, with the only difference being the character’s number of lifetime sexual partners (two or 20).

Researchers asked them to rate the person on a range of friendship factors, including warmth, competence, morality, emotional stability and overall likability.

Across all female participants, women – regardless of their own promiscuity – viewed sexually permissive women more negatively on nine of ten friendship attributes, judging them more favorably only on their outgoingness.

Permissive men only identified two measures, mate guarding and dislike of sexuality, where they favored less sexually active men as friends, showing no preference or favoring the more promiscuous men on the eight other variables; even more sexually modest men preferred the non-permissive potential friend in only half of all variables.

The study has been published in the early online edition of the Journal of Social and Personal Relationships.
Relationships are such complex spaces. I wish it were as easy as the learning the alphabet, but perhaps we can alphabetise it to illustrate some essential ingredients to making a fabulous relationship.

A = Attitude is everything. If you want it to work, it will.
B= Bonding is crucial to a lifetime of togetherness. Find common interests, spend time sharing lives and
C= Caring for each other. When you know someone cares, you want to stay there.
D= Dancing: there is something so magical about holding someone you care about and moving to music. It could be a slow dance or peppy salsa, whatever it takes to keep touch and chemistry alive.
E= Excitement: a healthy dose of excitement in spurts certainly doesn’t hurt.
F= Flirtation: it’s absolutely essential to keep the magic alive between partners. (and I mean flirt with each other, not others).
G= Give and take: it’s awful when one is just a giver and the other a taker. It has to be a mixture of both.
H= Happy: Everyone loves to be around a happy person. Count your blessings and radiate happiness.
I= Interesting: relationships start stagnating and go into a rut, hence it’s important to keep things alive and stimulating
J= Joking around: life is so stressful. It’s so lovely to be around someone who is playful on occasion to beat the blues and monotony. Don’t look for such a person, be such a person.
K= Kamasutra! When sex gets boring, the warning bells begin to ring. Keep changing your routine.
L= Love and Laughter are as essential as sunshine and oxygen to everyone, especially relationships.
M= Masala: it’s important to keep things spicy. Be it your sex life or dressing sense.
N= News. No communication leads to rifts. Communicate, update and share.
O= Orgasm!!! Remember, it’s not just for men. A satisfied woman is a key ingredient for a happy home and life.
We’ll finish the alphabets next week but until then… it’s time to start with the ABC’s.
My wife is not interested in having sex with me on a nightly basis any more. Should I look for another woman?
l Make the sex so good that she looks forward to it every night. Try new things whilst always remembering that foreplay is your greatest ally. Gentle kisses, cuddles, stroking, caressing and a mastery of the sensual over the sexual will have her yearning for your touch. Also, on nights when she might be too exhausted or emotionally volatile, you can always masturbate. Another woman is simply not an appropriate immediate response.

P = Positivity. You have to have a positive attitude to get things done and be the kind of person people want to be around.
Q=quality. Mediocrity of thoughts, actions and attitudes only makes for mediocre relationships.
R= Respect must be commanded, not demanded, so be worthy of it.
S= Sexy. Feel it, be it, emit it. Make your partner want and desire you constantly, if not in public, then certainly in the confines of your four walls.
T= Touch. Be it hugs, holding hands, a massage or cuddles, physical connection on a constant basis, creates a loving environment.

Jiah shot into the limelight in 2007 with her debut movie ‘Nishabd’ in which she starred opposite Amitabh Bachchan.

She got a Filmfare Best Debutant nomination for the Ram Gopal Varma movie in which she plays a teenager besotted with a man old enough to be her father.

Born and raised in London, Jiah, also known as Nafisa had shifted to India to pursue a career in acting. She worked in Aamir Khan’s ‘Ghajini’ and Akshay Kumar’s ‘Housefull’.

According to the police, Jiah ended her life at about 11 pm but did not leave any suicide note. Her mother Rabiya Amin, an actress in the 1980s was seen in the Tahir Hussain movie ‘Dulha Bikta Hai’.

Here’s taking a look at Jiah’s last tweet dated 24 May:

“So sorry I have been off twitter! Took a bit of a break from twitter verse.. sometimes u need a sabbatical to recollect ur thoughts (sic).”

Jiah Khan was found dead on June 3.

Mumbai: Actress Jiah Khan committed suicide at her Juhu residence on Monday night.

She was found hanging at her flat in Sagar Sangeet Building in the posh Juhu area of northwest Mumbai around midnight.

Jiah was dating Aditya Pancholi’s son Sooraj. She was said to be under depression after coming to know of Suraj’s new love interest, who supplied jewellery to the Pancholis.

Suraj and Jiah spoke over telephone a number of times yesterday, with the last call being made at 22.53 PM which lasted for two minutes. Soon thereafter, Jiah hanged herself. Post-mortem examination revealed the incident took place between 11 pm and 11.30 pm, sources said.

“Jiah was said to be very possessive about Suraj. Last night they exchanged text messages on their cell phones. Suraj also sent her a bouquet which she did not accept,” they said.

Both Suraj and Aditya were questioned by the police in connection with the case for nearly three-and-a-half hours and would be called again if necessary.

News of her death was first reported by actress Dia Mirza through a social networking site around 1.45 a.m.

Jiah’s mother and sister had gone out and she was alone at the house when the incident happened, police said.

“Jiah’s mother and sister found her hanging when they returned at around 11 PM,” police said, adding that Jiah used her own dupatta to hang herself.

Police said post-mortem of the body was conducted today and they have registered a case of accidental death. The preliminary post-mortem report of her body says that she died due to hanging herself.

According to Jiah’s mother, the actress was depressed after having been rejected at an audition in Hyderabad. She wanted to pursue a career in interior designing as she wasn’t happy with the way her film career graph was taking a plunge.

Actress Jiah Khan was found hanging in her Juhu flat, on early Tuesday morning. The exact reasons for the suicide are yet to be known, but sources say it could be depression and stress in personal life.The police reached her house in the morning and have moved Jiah’s body to the hospital for post-mortem. The doctors are expected to issue an official statement later in the day.Jiah had made a highly publicized debut opposite Amitabh Bachchan, in Ram Gopal Varma’s 2007 release Nishabd. Following that she was also seen in Aamir Khan’s Ghajini and Akshay Kumar’s Housefull. But she could never really break into the mainstream league.

Bollywood actress Jiah Khan was found dead in her Juhu apartment on Monday night in an apparent suicide, according to the Times of India. TV reports indicate that the 25-year-old star hanged herself, though a suicide note has not yet been found.

A few years back ,the London-born NRI actress had reportedly changed her name to Nafisa Khan. There were also rumours about a secret weeding, which Jiah went on record to deny. Jiah Khan was only 25-years-old.

 

Jiah was reportedly in a relationsjip with actor Aditya Pancholi’s son Suraj. According to sources speaking with Times Now, Suraj is likely to be called in for questioning by the Police.

Originally known as Nafisa Khan, the American-born actress was raised in London before her bold entry into film, starring opposite the legendary Amitabh Bachchan in the controversial movie “Nishabd,” loosely based on Nabokov’s “Lolita.” She was also praised for her starring roles in “Ghajini,” alongside Aamir Khan and “Housefull,” with Akshay Kumar.

Though she described herself in her Twitter bio as an “actor…poet…singer..musician..and dreamer… life through my rose coloured glasses,”sources close to her suggest that “she had been depressed for some time due to personal issues, but was keen on returning to acting soon.”

Jiah Khan was found dead on June 3.

Here is the text from actress Jiah Khan’s suicide letter allegedly addressed to Suraj Pancholi. This letter was shared to the media by Jiah’s mother through their publicists.

“I don’t know how to say this to you but I might as well now as I have nothing to lose. I’ve already lost everything. If you’re reading this I might have already left or about to leave. I am broken inside. You may not have known this but you affected me deeply to a point where I lost myself in loving you. Yet you tortured me everyday. These days I see no light I wake up not wanting to wake up. There was a time I saw my life with you, a future with you. But you shattered my dreams. I feel dead inside. I’ve never given so much of myself to someone or cared so much. You returned my love with cheating and lies. It didn’t matter how many gifts I gave you or how beautiful I looked for you. I was scared of getting pregnant but I gave myself completely the pain you have caused me everyday has destroyed every bit of me, destroyed my soul. I can’t eat or sleep or think or function. I am running away from everything. The career is not even worth it anymore.

When I first met you I was driven, ambitious and disciplined. Then I fell for you, a love I thought would bring out the best in me. I don’t know why destiny brought us together. After all the pain, the rape, the abuse, the torture I have seen previously I didn’t deserve this. I didn’t see any love or commitment from you. I just became increasingly scared that you would hurt me mentally or physically. Your life was about partying and women. Mine was you and my work. If I stay here I will crave you and miss you. So I am kissing my 10-year career and dreams goodbye. I never told you but I received a message about you. About you cheating on me. I chose to ignore it, decided to trust you. You embarrassed me. I never went out, I never went with anyone else. I am a loyal person. I never met anyone with Karthik I just wanted you to feel how you make me feel constantly. No other woman will give you as much as I did or love you as much as I did. I can write that in my blood. Things were looking up for me here, but is it worth it when you constantly feel the pain of heartbreak when the person you love wants to abuse you or threatens to hit you or cheats on you telling other girls they are beautiful or throws you out of their house when you have no where to go and you’ve come to them out of love or when they lie to your face or they make you chase after them in their car. Or disrespects their family. You never even met my sister. I bought your sister presents. You tore my soul. I have no reason to breathe anymore. All I wanted was love. I did everything for you. I was working for us. But you were never my partner. My future is destroyed my happiness snatched away from me. I always wished the best for you, was ready to invest what little money I had in your betterment. You never appreciated my love, Kicked me in the face. I have no confidence or self esteem left, whatever talent whatever ambition you took it all away. You destroyed my life. It hurt me so much that I waited for you for ten days and you didn’t bother buying me something.

The Goa trip was my birthday present but even after you cheated I still spent on you. I aborted our baby when it hurt me deeply. You destroyed my Christmas and my birthday dinner when I came back. When I tried my hardest to make your birthday special. You chose to be away from me on Valentines Day. You promised me once we made it to one year we would get engaged. All you want in life is partying, your women and your selfish motives. All I wanted was you and my happiness you took both away from me. I spent money on you selflessly you would throw in my face. When I would cry for you. I have nothing left in this world to live for after this. I wish you had loved me like I loved you. I dreamt of our future. I dreamt of our success. I leave this place with nothing but broken dreams and empty promises. All I want now is to go to sleep and never wake up again. I am nothing. I had everything. I felt so alone even while with you. You made me feel alone and vulnerable. I am so much more than this.”

From a time when we taught the world a few lessons in sex to becoming a repressed society, Indians are indeed one sexually confused lot

A bitterly weeping Kumud (Jennifer Winget) mourns the loss of her virginity in Sanjay Leela Bhansali’s evocative television romance Saraswatichandra, “Mardon ko mohh ka shraap hota hai, aur auraton ko maryada ka varr… mujhe apne aap ko rok lena chahiye thha…!” (Men are afflicted by the curse of extreme attachment, while women have the blessing of propriety. I should have held myself back!)

The male lead, a befuddled Saras (played by Gautam Gode) cannot understand her misery. “Issme paap kya hai? Kal hum jis duniya mein thhe wo sirf hum dono ki duniya thhi…Ye hamara hakk thha!” (What’s sinful in our coming together? This is just between the two of us, it is our right!) To this Kumud replies that love follows some principles, which they have ignored!

Any sexually repressed Indian will immediately understand that the ‘principle of love’ she refers to, is ‘no physical intimacy’! The moment intimacy is initiated, pyaar becomes paap, never mind the deep emotions or commitment involved. Surprisingly, for a country known at one time for leading sexual innovation worldwide and celebrating the erotic through murals, sculptures and the Kamasutra, many Indian generations have been brought up to consider the most natural expression of love — the physical — to be sinful outside marriage. Indeed, within marriage too, sex is not something to be enjoyed, but to be submitted to for the sake of procreation — a task to be performed!

But wait, the hypocrisy doesn’t end here. The paap or sin is all on the girl’s side; it is she who carries the onerous responsibility of keeping herself ‘pure like the Ganges’ (never mind the state of the river anymore!). And so Kumud in Saraswatichandra (which Sanjay Leela Bhansali has declared a “modern love story” ) accepts that it is natural for Saras to have felt tempted, and berates herself for not holding back. The man is given a free ticket, while the dubious honour of her family is inextricably linked to the girl’s intact hymen. The idea of a girl initiating or enjoying sex is still considered taboo. And so, if she indulges in sex outside the set paradigm, she is assailed by guilt the moment the deed is done. Shamefully, a woman is still looked upon as a possession that can bring shame or honour to a man. Very conveniently, he uses her as a peg to hang his shame on.

And so, all male depraved acts against women are blamed on women. In fact, why just the living things, now men have taken to even blaming lifeless mannequins in show windows for provoking them to commit crimes against women. In Mumbai, the Municipal Corporation recently declared that lingerie mannequins may promote “rape” and encourage other depraved male acts against women, and so must be removed.

From the explicit portrayals at Khajuraho to the nodding flowers and frosted camera lens depicting a kiss in Hindi films, from domestic violence to the depraved acts of men ganging up to violate innocent girls and children — we are indeed one sexually confused lot. From Gandhi’s vow of celibacy and recorded loathing for sex to its later metamorphosis into his bold, adventurous experiments, we have all shades of sexuality except the transparent.

When you keep sexuality on a tight leash and under wraps, it is bound to strain at the bit, and natural urges and curiosity find their own outlets, resulting in chaos and lawlessness, in depraved and shocking acts of misogyny and inhumanity. Nirbhaya’s case is only the very minuscule tip of the iceberg. For every Nirbhaya who gets media space, there are hundreds who die unsung, unknown.

Ancient India openly celebrated sexuality and indulged an uninhibited expression of it. Where and when did we lose that openness? Psychologist Sudhir Kakar explains in his book, The Indians, that Muslim invaders, and the repression of British colonialism and Victorian morality changed Indian sexual attitudes and made us more wary with regard to selfexpression. With so many taboos attached to it, the subject of sexuality is almost never discussed openly, leading to the repression of one of the most natural urges in human beings. India’s ‘Dirty’ Grand Old Man, Khushwant Singh, claims that “nine-tenths of the violence and unhappiness in this country derives from sexual repression.”

Nobody can deny that urban India and the upper middle class have a somewhat more relaxed attitude towards sexuality. Indeed the Millennial Generation even in India certainly is leap years ahead of the present retarded way of looking at sex. And yet the vast majority remains puritanical and repressed, ensuring sexuality retains its dark, dangerous edge rather than freeing it to reach a level of liberating self-expression; a level where you are allowed to get over it and focus on other things in life, rather than allowing sex to prey on your mind to a fanatical level.

Bollywood actress Jiah Khan was found dead in her Juhu apartment on Monday night in an apparent suicide, according to the Times of India. TV reports indicate that the 25-year-old star hanged herself, though a suicide note has not yet been found.

Originally known as Nafisa Khan, the American-born actress was raised in London before her bold entry into film, starring opposite the legendary Amitabh Bachchan in the controversial movie “Nishabd,” loosely based on Nabokov’s “Lolita.” She was also praised for her starring roles in “Ghajini,” alongside Aamir Khan and “Housefull,” with Akshay Kumar.

Though she described herself in her Twitter bio as an “actor…poet…singer..musician..and dreamer… life through my rose coloured glasses,”sources close to her suggest that “she had been depressed for some time due to personal issues, but was keen on returning to acting soon.”

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Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan, who is also the Umno secretary-general, and mother of all snake But admit it: whatever  the strategic thinking for Tengku Adnan. Tengku Adnan has the future mapped out. Operating procedure for Big Boss: sound resigned if you have to, but don’t resign. Deflect and wait. Do a costume change, don’t alter the script.all to make sure that the real “villain”, UMNO president Najib,  will be forced to loose his president post.

Both City Hall and the police have given the green light for the rally, it is only the venue which we disagree with.Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan  demand us to consider a closed venue, such as Stadium Titiwangsa but the dark night between the sunset of a government and the dawn of a UMNO election is a good time for rumination

The entire manner in which the KL mayor and the Najib administration conducted themselves over the usage of Kuala Lumpur City Hall (DBKL) today rejected  application to hold a gathering at Padang Merbok this June 22, delicited enormous negative publicity and backlash for the Najib administration throughout the countryPolice their hands must have been tied by Tengku Adnan .

In the recently-concluded and controversial May 5 general election, Najib had declared a victory of 133 seats in the federal Parliament versus the Pakatan’s 89. Such an outcome was ”This rejection is totally without basis and clearly politically motivated. It shows Najib is afraid of its own shadow. On our part, we have done all we can to accommodate the police and the authorities but it looks like they have clear intention to block us anyhow.”Prime Minister Najib Razak who had mooted the controversial PAA in 2012. One of the most criticized clauses in the PAA is the requirement of giving a minimum 10-days notice to the police before organizers can proceed to hold their event.

Have you noticed this other thing that has been happening in our media space recently? That whoever takes media’s side is painted in virtuosity, and against, in dark colors of immorality. I suspect media does this with an agenda. To pull in more support for its point of view. And people oblige. After all, who doesn’t want a lustrous self-image, a chance to cleanse all the misdeeds of the past….and in fact, create a world of new opportunities? Media has today become the arbiter of probity and righteousness.”It doesn’t make sense and I don’t blame the Mayor because he has to toe the line set by Tengku Adnan. Tengku Adnan has already said Putrajaya will not allow the rally. I am not sure if Tengku Adnan realizes it but he making a fool of his boss’s Peaceful Assembly Act. Every Malaysian has the right to assemble, what is the point of a Peaceful Assembly Act when the citizens are denied this right. What is this law for, what is the PAA supposed to regulate if in the first place, the people are barred from assembling, ”This rejection is totally without basis and clearly politically motivated. It shows Umno is afraid of its own shadow. On our part, we have done all we can to accommodate the police and the authorities but it looks like they have clear intention to block us anyhow.”

Datuk Seri Najib Razak needs to prove himself a strong leader and show the kind of decisiveness that Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad had, former Umno minister Datuk Zaid Ibrahim said today, noting that the country’s stability was contingent on this.

Zaid , once a supreme council member in the ruling Umno, said the prime minister must end racial polarisation here by making a clear stand on the matter, stop newspapers like Utusan Malaysia from further provoking the Chinese community and show a stern hand in efforts to end power abuses and corruption in his government.

Najib, he added, must become a leader whom the Malays can implicitly trust as one who would not let them down, despite his show of inclusivenes and fairness to other ethnic groups.

“Umno cannot function when its leader is weak, and neither can the country. The many years of indoctrination, including the inculcation of fear of threats from other ethnic communities, require that Umno have a strong leader.

“This leader is someone who doesn’t fear his own family or the Umno warlords, and who can employ the strength of his convictions and intellect to push his economic and social agenda successfully,” Zaid said, according to a copy of his speech text that was presented to members of the Rotary Club of Pudu at Shangri-La Hotel here today.

The former Umno-turned-PKR member cited Dr Mahathir as an example of a strong leader, saying that although the former prime minister had committed some errors during his tenure, he had always had the trust of the Umno Malays.

Zaid recalled that during his stint, Dr Mahathir had never been as harsh on the Chinese community as he has been today, noting that he always had the community’s backing.

“He was a strong Malay leader who was acceptable to most non-Malays,” he said.

Ticking off examples, Zaid reminded that Dr Mahathir had even been strong enough to dismantle the New Economic Policy (NEP) to replace it with the National Development Policy (NDP) and had fathered Vision 2020, which articulated a future for a multiracial nation.

Dr Mahathir had also made school children to learn Mathematics and Science in English, he pointed out.

“There was no Utusan to mock or attack him and his policies, and there was no backlash from Umno businessmen because he had the foresight to distribute the country’s largesse fairly,” Zaid said.

“That’s what a strong Umno leader is capable of,” he added.

But today, Najib, who was just recently sworn in for his second term as prime minister after a divisive general election, does not fit the frame of such a strong leader, Zaid said.

He said the son of former prime minister Tun Abdul Razak Hussein was born with a silver spoon in his mouth and today lives the life of the rich and famous.

“He (Najib) is not perturbed by his family’s spending sprees, even though many Malaysians are still languishing in the low-income bracket.

“He has never been a natural leader known for his beliefs and convictions. That’s why his so-called reforms and transformation plans seem so dangerous to Umno Malays.

“He has no history of doing enough for them and so they are worried his transformation plans would be to their detriment,” Zaid said.

The key challenge for Najib today, he added, lies in the Umno president’s ability to prove his mettle and convince the country’s largest ethnic group and his own party that his transformation plans would not see their interests ditched.

Any form of transformation, if carried out haphazardly by a weak leader, would be seen as “selling out” and will eventually fail, Zaid said.

Noting that Umno’s internal polls are looming, the former minister said that Najib needs to tackle current problems with determination to cement his position without displaying extremism that might frighten off his support from the non-Malays.

“What will all of this mean for the country? A strong leader is what the country needs from whichever side he comes from.

“He will be able to better control the excesses in the country’s politics (including his own party), which means incidents of harassing the other side – be it the Opposition or Government– will be reduced,” Zaid said.

“For now, I believe a strong leader in Umno will go a long way towards bringing stability to the country.”

Najib led Barisan Nasional (BN) to victory in the just-concluded 13th general election but the ruling pact took a severe beating from the opposition, losing an additional seven federal seats to Pakatan Rakyat (PR).

The prime minister has since had to deal with a wounded nation as Malaysia, post-polls, saw racial polarisation worsen and a wider rural-urban rift.

In the bleakness surrounding a pale victory, Najib described the results of Election 2013 as a “Chinese tsunami”, earning widespread criticism for allegedly characterising the polls as a Chinese versus Malay contest.

The Umno-owned daily Utusan Malaysia fanned the fires further when it front-paged the incendiary headline titled “Apa lagi yang Cina mahu?” (What more do the Chinese want?).

Senator Datuk Paul Low clarified today that he had not likened the Enforcement Agency Integrity Commission (EAIC) in its current set-up to the proposed Independent Police Complaints and Misconduct Commission (IPCMC) as alluded to by DAP MP Tony Pua

Instead, the minister for integrity and corruption said he had pointed to the weaknesses in the EAIC and said the Cabinet had agreed it needed an extensive revamp and a broadening of its powers by possibly adopting some recommendations from the 2005 IPCMC proposal.

His comparison between the names EAIC and IPCMC, Low said, was merely to point out that the name of the authority was immaterial but its effectiveness must be of utmost importance.

“I would like to express my grave disappointment at how my words have been blatantly misrepresented for reasons best known only to Mr Tony Pua himself,” Low said in a statement here.

Earlier today The Malaysian Insider reported a statement from Pua in which the Petaling Jaya Utara MP criticised remarks made by Low yesterday over the IPCMC debacle.

Low said that the Cabinet, following its meeting last week, had “more or less” concluded and it was better to overhaul the EAIC and widen its jurisdiction instead of setting up a new IPCMC from scratch.

In his statement, Low had said that getting a new commission up and running would involve too much time.

“…IPCMC and EAIC are only names, and what really matters is that we arrive at an independent agency that has the resources, clout and scope of influence to do the job effectively, now that the weaknesses of the existing EAIC had been more or less identified,” the minister had said.

Responding, Pua said Low was “sorely mistaken” in saying the difference between the two was merely in their names, insisting the EAIC was only set up in 2011 to placate widespread demands for the IPCMC.

“This was not my meaning at all!” Low replied this evening.

“Clearly, even a teenager would be able to conclude that my intention was never to equate the EAIC in its current form to that of the IPCMC proposed by the RCI in 2005,” he added.

The IPCMC was mooted by the 2005 royal commission of inquiry (RCI) chaired by former Chief Justice Tun Mohamed Dzaiddin Abdullah but was later shot down by the police.

Low told Pua to reread his statement carefully, pointing out that he said he would even consider inviting other parties like the Bar Council and foreign professionals to contribute to the government’s effort to check its enforcement agencies.

“In fact, the PM and members of his Cabinet are fully aware of the weaknesses with the EAIC in its current state, and are all behind me to conduct a thorough study and consultation with concerned parties to put together a detailed proposal to beef up the EAIC, even by possibly readopting some of the RCI’s earlier proposals,” he said.

The end purpose, Low added, was to ensure the commission is effective and independent, with the right people, tools and scope of influence to regulate not only the police but other enforcement agencies where abuse cases may arise.

“I fail to see how much clearer I can make it understood that my team and I are doing our level best to come up with a long-term solution that will meet this pressing and very real need, which the rakyat are also crying out for,” he said.

“In fact, we are pushing for one that will not only be effective, but also empowered to investigate other enforcement agencies as well ― where the needs are also real and pressing.

“Whether the name remains ‘EAIC’ at the end of the day… ‘EAICC’, ‘PEAIC’, etc… does it really matter?” he asked.

The former Transparency International Malaysia (TI-M) president later repeated his invitation to all parties to aid him and his team in working out the best solution to the ongoing debacle over police abuses and other matters concerning integrity in the government.

“… if you could lend me and my team a helping hand, or even… just more constructive, well thought out suggestions… it would make the job we are trying to do for you a lot easier,” he said.

The recent spate of custodial deaths — nine over the past five months so far — revived calls for the establishment of the IPCMC and in response, Low raised the proposal to Cabinet during its meeting last Wednesday.

The Malaysian Bar, civil society groups and several politicians from both sides of the divide have been calling for the IPCMC’s implementation since 2006 but to no avail.

In the latest tragedy behind bars, Nobuhiro Matsushita, 33, was found dead at 4am on Saturday in his cell at the USJ8 police station lock-up in Subang Jaya.

Police said the Japanese man, who was arrested for whipping out a knife at an auxiliary policeman after trespassing into a university on June 2, was found hanged in his cell, presumably at his own hands.

In another recent controversial case, a government hospital autopsy report revealed that 32-year-old detainee N. Dharmendran had died as a result of multiple beatings while in police custody.

On Wednesday, three of the four police officers who allegedly caused Dhamendran’s death were charged with murder under section 302 of the Penal Code. A fourth accused is still at large.

A nation that cannot uphold its law cannot preserve its order. civil society indicating that both had certain common features and suggested that the role and nature of civil society is reflective of the role and condition of the State and that the development of one could not be understood in isolation from the other. In both, there is a prevalence of corruption, weak leadership rooted in a neo-patrimonial political culture, ethnic and class divisions as well as tendencies towards may be linked to the lack of a strong, effective system which could have fostered the creation of a shared national identity. There is evidence to suggest that such a formation did not occur in countries that have been colonized in the past after independence. This may have hampered the genesis of national cohesion and the ability of the State to evolve to nationhood. The objective of my PhD research is to investigate the role of instition reposible in State formation through a comparative analysis of Malaysia and india.he exception as the rule Good Intentions cannot justify bad deliver Bill passd in parliamnt are not in the laudable intention but in the clogged delivery. The desire to be politically correct has overtaken the imperative to be politically sensible. Method and order structural flaw could further erode the already ebbing credibility of our parliamentary systemThe irony is that such flaws can be easily corrected, with some time and thought. Both have been absent from the process, the favourite weapons of Hercule Poirot, might be usefully employed in analysis.It is odd that the government should have chosen law and order as its final alibi after some exhausting self-laceration in its search for a credible explanation for the escape ofJusticWhen Instuation smuggled  The Predators to safety, the authority of state abandoned the responsibility of state. Excuses, evasions and lies have shifted over years; this central truth has not.the umbilical chord of the colonial, or neo-colonial. Who had dared to arrest a pillar of the American corporate establishment. ‘Bail or no bail’: what was a rotten piece of paper signed in an Indian court worth to a lord of Wall Street? Not even the decency of silence. Anderson was publicly, even proudly, contemptuous of those who did not have the courage to interrupt his freedom for a mere industrial disaster in which a few thousand semi-slave Indians had been gassed to death within hours and thousands more would die over years.Accusation is the easy exit route from Bhopal. Introspection will take us back to the beginning. Betrayal is impossible without trust. We did not trust Carbide to be honest. We trusted our political class, and it continues to search for new and inventive ways to betray us again.

Why do we say “law and order” rather than “order and law”? Simple. Law comes before order. Law defines the nature of order. Law is the difference between civilization and chaos. Law is evolutionary: the edicts of tribes, chiefs and dynasties lifted human societies from scattered peril to structured coexistence. The laws of democracy have vaulted us to the acme of social cohesion, for they eliminated arbitrary diktat and introduced collective will. The divine right of kings is dead; it has been reborn as the secular right of an elected Parliament.

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The unfortunate truth is that there is reason for this cynicism. A lot of the opinions that abound in media, both mainstream and social, are rooted in  pre-fabricated positions that fly under the flag of one label or another. In addition, over the last few years it has become clear that very few of our certitudes about the independence ofjustice the allegedly independent institutions stand up to scrutiny.

A nation that cannot uphold its law cannot preserve its order.

It is odd that the government should have chosen law and order as its final alibi after some exhausting self-laceration in its search for a credible explanation for the escape of JUSTICE

Why do we say “law and order” rather than “order and law”? Simple. Law comes before order. Law defines the nature of order. Law is the difference between civilization and chaos. Law is evolutionary: the edicts of tribes, chiefs and dynasties lifted human societies from scattered peril to structured coexistence. The laws of democracy have vaulted us to the acme of social cohesion, for they eliminated arbitrary diktat and introduced collective will. The divine right of kings is dead; it has been reborn as the secular right of an elected Parliament.

A nation that cannot uphold its law cannot preserve its order. When Instuation smuggled  The Predators to safety, the authority of state abandoned the responsibility of state. Excuses, evasions and lies have shifted over 26 years; this central truth has not.

Promoting equality of unequally?

legal system,local or in international sphere the subjects of law are the persons, nationals and judicial, upon whom the law confers rights and impose duties .In international law these persons are normally states, but they are not so exclusively. States have been described by Weber as the human community that claim itself the monopoly of the legitimate use of physical violence within the territory with determined boundaries .However, the advisory opinion in the case concerning Reparation for the injuries suffered of the united nation ,the international court of justice rejected the view that the only states can be subjects of international law and affirmed that ―throughout its history ,the development of international law has been influenced by the requirements of international life and the progressive increase in the collective activities of states has already given a rise to instances of actions upon the international plane by certain entities which are not states.

Politicians are entitled to reinvent themselves. And because we live in an era of instant coffee, they believe, perhaps, that masks can be worn and shed at will and images changed with the wave of Najib’s hand But can he abandon the muscular brand of politics that has served him so well  during the last UMNO election made him a runaway success with thedivision leaders rank and file, for the conciliatory approach that made him UMNO leader? Can he shrink his 56-inch chest and soften his machismo to deal with the likes of  Mahathir and Muhyuddin?Drumbeaters about the dangers of dumping the tradition of collective leadership for the ephe-meral benefits of personality-driven politics and the havoc this would wreak upon the party’s DNA.Najib anyway can be forced resign as Prime Minister he is playing with fire.

Members of  Parliament from Sabah and Sarawak who met Tengku Razaleigh are not expected to reveal their intentions until Parliament starts on June 24. were dissappointed with Najib decisions to appointment of new cabinet . ”now concerned with new ministers on  own their personal agendas.They are seeing Ku Li to see what they can do to express their disappointment

Umno won 88 federal seats in Election 2013, up nine from 2008 but several party veterans have blamed the party and BN’s lacklustre performance on Najib’s “war room” strategists, and hinting that the prime minister might be shown the door if he doesn’t remove his strategists for their bad advice.BN took 47 of the 56 federal seats in Sabah and Sarawak, contributing one-third of the 133 federal seats it won in the elections despite both states only having a quarter of the 222 seats in Parliament,east Malaysian MPs are the latest to rattle Najib after he won his first personal mandate with fewer seats than his predecessor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.Najib is already under pressure from within Umno and now this, just after a poor result in the pollsPrime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak doled out 20 ministerial and deputy ministerial posts to east Malaysian MPs, leaving parties like Sarawak’s SPDP without any representatives despite winning four federal seats.

In contrast, the MIC in the Malay peninsula saw all four MPs getting ministerial and deputy ministerial posts in the Najib administration — which has 32 full ministers including eight in the Prime Minister’s Department.

They are seeing Ku Li to see what they can do to express their disappointment

Four years ago in my speech at this same hotel, I said that Dato’ Seri Najib Tun Razak was not a suitable man to succeed Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi. With such deep-seated problems of corruption, intensified by distrust amongst the different races, coupled with the glaring weakness of the Police force to address the question of security and the deaths in Police custody, I believe that the country needs a strong leader.s there anyone who would mount a challenge to Najib? Insiders say that Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin would prefer to wait for the durian to fall without having to shake the tree. It’s also true that waging an UMNO contest entails spending a lot of money, and having spent so much already during the General Election, not many supporters have the appetite to submit to another round of “donations.” Some of the big donors who are usually prevailed upon to supply election war chests are strapped for cash. Even if they are inclined to support the challenger, they remain wary of Najib. The Prime Minister can easily make the call to the banks and these industrialists would be exposed to some serious recall of their loans.

Since the election, we are further faced with the terrible truth about the inefficiency and partisan behaviour of our own Election Commission, the irresponsible and provocative behaviour of UMNO’s media apparatus in maligning those they felt had not supported Barisan Nasional, the spate of arrests and charges against students and political leaders – all these matters have contributed to the present state of helplessness and anger amongst the people. Will the Prime Minister tackle these issues head on?

UMNO cannot function when its leader is weak, and neither can the country. The many years of indoctrination, including the inculcation of fear of threats from other ethnic communities, require that UMNO have a strong leader. This leader is someone who doesn’t fear his own family or the UMNO warlords, and who can employ the strength of his convictions and intellect to push his economic and social agenda successfull

More importantly, UMNO requires a leader who at heart is someone who will not let the Malay community down. He is someone the Malays can have implicit trust to take care of them. Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad is a classic example of a strong UMNO leader. He committed some errors during his years as Prime Minister and gave a number of projects to his non-Malay friends, but the UMNO Malays trusted him to always take care of their interests. He had a long history of protecting Malay interests without talking too much about it.

Although lately he was rather harsh on the Chinese community for rejecting the BN and making the most unfortunate remarks in his blog, he was never like that when he was the Prime Minister. In fact, the Chinese community was always supportive of BN under him. He was a strong Malay leader who was acceptable to most non-Malays.

Perhaps that’s why he was strong enough to replace the NEP in 1990 with the National Development Policy, and was also able to come up with Vision 2020, which articulated a future in which Malaysians of all races could live together in harmony in a developed Malaysia. That’s why he was strong enough to get the school children to learn English through science and mathematics. There was no Utusan to mock or attack him and his policies, and there was no backlash from UMNO businessmen because he had the foresight to distribute the country’s largesse fairly.

During his tenure, there was never the kind of racial incitement or extreme posturing amongst the races. Relations between the Chinese and the Malays were good except for a brief moment during Operasi Lalang in 1987. He was able to do what others could not. That’s why he was able to sign a historic peace deal with the Communists. If he was the Prime Minister today, Chin Peng would have been allowed back home. Dr Mahathir would have honoured the agreement and Utusan and the ultra Malays would not have bothered him. That’s what a strong UMNO leader is capable of.

Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin thots

In 2009,headed by Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin  a special Umno general assembly approved constitutional amendments giving 146,500 delegates the right to vote for the leadership, abolishing the quota system, simultaneous delegates meeting, and allow more women appointees, as  UMNO member , feel vulnerable and it is therefore my moral responsibility Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today refused to exclude a potential contest for the top Umno posts later this year, saying only that he will reveal his position “when the right time comes”.“As we know Umno is a democratic party. It’s not the individual’s right but the rights of members and party that matters. I will not comment, wait until when the right time come,” Muhyiddin was quoted as quoted as saying by state news agency Bernama at a Barisan Nasional (BN) thanksgiving function in Kundang Ulu, Johor today.“But the problem is that some UMNO members cannot differentiate between the government decisions and their implementation by the bureaucracy. Hence, if the schemes that have been announced are not fulfilled, it will be the ruling party which will face the music,” he adds. He says there is still time for the party to rectify the situation members electing the right UMNO president.Why almost all Malay leaders  are silent

UMNO members are losing faith in Najib’s UMNO Persidency  in damage control mode  it was Muhyiddin and Dr Mahathir who  forced Abdullah to make way for Najib in 2009, hinting that the combination may still have the same potency as five years ago.PRIME MINISTER IN WAITING TAN-SRI-MUHYIDDIN-YASSIN’S FIRST MALAYS THE MALAYS WILL NOTFORGIVE “MISTAKES”  NAJIB GIVING AWAY THE MALAY’S RIGHTS. “My definition of Malaysia is simple: ‘Malays First’. Whatever you do, wherever you work, Malays should be the top priority for all its citizens,”Muhyiddin   said as”Country is above all religions and ideologies,”

“A large segment of umno members understands that Najib is only misleading the whole  community. Najib is not talking about education, poverty, housing and other such issues of the  Malay population. The fact is that all the schemes are aimed at garnering votes. Since becoming UMNO president uncontested is playing the appeasement politics and it has touched its peak now   appears reluctant in making a move against any of his cronies  accused in Whatever the development, the grassroot UMNO member’s anger over Najib is not likely to subside immediately. An influential section of the community, which is also close to  Najib, however, prefers to shift the blame somewhere else.Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad also said that it was up to Umno to decide if Najib should step down as party leader after helming BN to its worst ever electoral performance.

The test of success of any democratic nation is its fair and equitable treatment to all our Malay brothers and sisters not by class Najib have failed this test very often. There may be difference in degree of failures but  have often failed to protect the rights of the Malays There have been continuous violation of their rights tolerating the acts of injustices committed againstMalays is Najib’s greatest sin

Datuk Ahmad Maslan  and Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri  in which way internal bickering and continuous politicking which will only weaken the party? like DAP When Hitler was persecuting the Jews and Communists in Germany others remained silent in the hope that it’s only happening to these two groups of people but these silent and mute breed of other people could not remain safe for longer as Hitler turned his tirade against all whom he considered a threat to his vision for Germany.Calling spade a spade is a requirement of the all the times, It’s disturbing to note that a situation is fast developing where el ite Malays will only speak for elite Malays but  MUHYIDDIN GIVE VOICELESS UMNO MEMBERS ‘CHANCE TO BE HEARD’ I know one fact for the sure: if  Datuk Ahmad Maslan  and Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri   will not speak for poor UMNO members,  Datuk Ahmad Maslan  and Datuk Abdul Rahim Bakri   will have no interest to speak for them and their cause. We all are living in a compact world where incidents anywhere affect us at our places. And therefore, I am waiting for the day when  Malay intellectuals and civil society groups will start speaking against the atrocities committed by DAP on Malays  not professing their faith in neighbouring and other foreign countries. I am also waiting for the day when non-Muslims will speak against the communalism of the Muslims and Muslims will be doing the same against the communalism of the non-Muslims with equal ease. I am also waiting for the day when your communalism and my communalism will equally be considered dangerous.

Former New Straits Times (NST) group editor-in-chief Datuk A. Kadir Jasin said Umno’s grassroots should get to decide the fate of Najib as party president when internal polls are held at the year’s end  disagree with suggestions from state-level leaderships that the party’s top two posts not be contested, saying their views must take into account that it was likely Umno’s grassroots leaders and members who helped save BN from losing Election 2013.Former prime minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad also said that it was up to Umno to decide if Najib should step down as party leader after helming BN to its worst ever electoral performance.Can we be adults, please? Najib so engrossed in their selfish behaviour that he is  more worried about a possible threat to hisr future rather than threat to the ethos of the game. also tied up by the UMNO  constitution which gives great power and almost infalliable stature to the president.The divisions align to Najib … Read more

Muhyiddin is an unusual politician. Perhaps even his worst critics might grant him that. It is not easy to sum up 2013 without a deep feeling of despair. If 2013 was the year in which some fundamental structural issues with our political system were exposed, 2013 seems to have not only deepened our  understanding  of those  DAP atrocities on the Malay communities? The fight for Malay right and equal rights cannot be fought with limited vision. Wrong is wrong and it has to be stopped.   146,500 UMNO delegates must come out and oppose Najib Why? Get soaked in the red coloured rains, It’s no time to remain inside and get entangled in the mumbo jumbo of political technicalities. Come out and feel the pulse of the nation. The rain of change is flooding the masses and it is bad to take refuge under umbrellas. For once, the political leaders should … Read more

Jiah Khan’s mother Rabia, speaks about her daughter’s troubled affair with her boyfriend and the film industry

When did you first know that Jiah was dating Suraj? 
Last year. Initially, I never stopped her from meeting that boy. He was wooing her with flowers and home-cooked food. And she liked it.

When did you realise that Jiah was in a troubled relationship with him? 
In February, this year she had come to London. I told her, ‘You are in love but there is no glow on your face’. She broke down. I asked her to share everything with me. I told her ‘Home is hospital, world outside is a battlefield. Don’t hide anything from me’. I asked her to withdraw from the relationship. But I realised it was too late… She was head-over-heels in love with that boy. I managed to dissuade her from talking to him for few days but I saw that they were in touch again. She returned to join piano and kathak classes. She had a maid, driver- her life was going fine. Her younger sister was going to get engaged on June 23, which is why I was in Mumbai. And on return I felt that she and Suraj had sorted it out and life was smiling upon her once more.

If things had indeed settled down between them, how did it suddenly go all wrong? 
I don’t know. But since the past ten days, I could see that Suraj was trying to distance himself from Jiah. I sat Jiah down and had a chat with her on this (pauses). I could see that he was becoming commitment phobic. But youngsters are youngsters I guess…Love is blind.

Did you and Aditya Panscholi ever discuss Jiah and Suraj’s relationship? 
It’s a misconception that Aditya and I were friends. Aditya is Anju Mahendroo’s friend. If he was my friend, things would have been amicable and this incident wouldn’t have happened. But yeah, I know he threw a fit when he came to know about his son’s relationship with my daughter. He even told Salman Khan about it, who tried to talk Suraj out of it. But Suraj told him that he loved Jiah and Salman was then cool about it.

Have you ever met Zarina Wahab (Suraj’s mom) and interacted with her? 
Never. He never introduced me to his parents as Jiah’s mother. I kept telling Jiah that it is strange that you have introduced him to me as your boyfriend but he never reciprocated.

Did Jiah ever tell you that she was pregnant with Suraj’s child and underwent an abortion? 
No. Had I known about it, I would’ve blasted the sky.

Did Jiah want to marry Suraj? 
Yes. She wanted to settle down and have a home with him.

Any message to young girls aspiring for a career in films or their moms? 
I don’t want to preach. But this industry is not bad if you work sincerely. And for heaven’s sake, don’t get me wrong. I have not been an ambitious and pushy mother. Every parent motivates his/her child to pursue his/her dream, I was doing the same

Was Jiah upset when she was ousted from Chance Pe Dance? 
She was very disappointed. But I think only the makers of CPD (Read: UTV, Ken Ghosh) can tell you why they threw her out. But her dream was getting back on track. Recently, she had metSuraj Sharma (of Life Of Pi) and the makers of a South film had almost finalised her. They asked her to put on some weight and did not reject her outright as has been reported in the media.

Do you think that the fact that Jiah hadn’t signed too many films but Suraj was being launched by a big banner (Salman Khan Productions) drove a wedge in their relationship? 
I think so. After he signed his debut film (remake of Hero) with Salman, his body language changed. In fact, Jiah told him that she wanted to meet Salman and tell him that she wanted to work with him. But Suraj did not make it happen.

Jiah was quite bitter about her dad. Where is he? 
She had issues with him but that was her personal matter. At this point, I would only like to say one thing about him. He called me after Jiah passed away. And he cried a lot over the phone.

Bollywood actor Aditya Pancholi’s son Suraj was arrested on Monday evening for abetting actor Jiah Khan’s suicide. The action follows the delayed discovery of a letter by Jiah in which she holds an unnamed person responsible for her extreme step and mentions abortion, pain, abuse, torture and rape. Suraj, 22, was reportedly in a relationship with Jiah and was the last person she spoke to on phone before hanging herself at her residence last Monday.

Earlier on Monday, the police recorded Jiah’s mother Rabiya’s statement again, where she repeated her allegation that Suraj was the man Jiah addressed her letter to.

Jiah’s family found the letter in her handbag and gave it to the police on Saturday.

“We registered an FIR under the IPC’s section 306 (abetment of suicide) on the basis of Rabiya Khan’s statement and arrested Suraj. We will produce him in the Andheri court on Tuesday for remand,” said senior inspector Arun Bhagat of the Juhu police station.

The police had initially stated there was no evidence against Suraj, but after the letter’s appearance, they consulted legal experts about its contents before deciding to book Suraj. A police team went to the Pancholi residence in Juhu around 5pm and took Suraj in custody. His mother and sister followed him to the police station in a separate car; they left from there around 9pm.

The police have said that before Jiah’s suicide, Suraj spent two nights with her. On her last day, she phoned him, wanting to meet him, but he refused; instead, they had an argument. The police have been examining Jiah’s phone for communication details. In Suraj’s phone, they found the messages the two exchanged deleted. On Monday morning, ACP (west region) Vishwas Nangre-Patil and DCP Chhering Dorje, along with other officers, visited Jiah’s residence for more clues.

On Monday, Rabiya also held a press conference at her home, in which she reiterated that Jia’s suicide was not due to a lack of assignments, but her troubled relationship with Suraj. “My point is to tell you the truth. It is being said that she was depressed and had no work, but it was not the case,” Rabiya said. “She was attending at least three to four events a month. She was making money and was living comfortably in her house with two maids and even had a car and a driver. It was the insecurity that her love was not respected and recognized that was killing her day by day.”

Bollywood actor Aditya Pancholi’s son Suraj was arrested on Monday evening for abetting actor Jiah Khan’s suicide. The action follows the delayed discovery of a letter by Jiah in which she holds an unnamed person responsible for her extreme step and mentions abortion, pain, abuse, torture and rape. Suraj, 22, was reportedly in a relationship with Jiah and was the last person she spoke to on phone before hanging herself at her residence last Monday.

“Tum itna jo muskura rahe ho, kya gham hai jisko chhupa rahe ho…?” As the showbiz world somberly comes to terms with the suicide of actress Jiah Khan, the evocative song from the 1980s film ‘Arth’ perhaps sums up the many insecurities and uncertainties behind pretty smiles.

All of 25, Jiah was found hanging from the ceiling at her Mumbai house on Tuesday morning, the latest in a line of actresses and models who have opted out of the life of stresses and pressures of showbiz.

The problem, as film historian S.M.M. Ausaja puts it, is that youngsters today “don’t have patience left to struggle their way to the top”.

“Instead of banking on their talent, they lean on shortcuts and promises, which when not fulfilled, lead them to self destruction,” Ausaja told IANS.

Bollywood makes some stars and sucks some souls, director Roshan Abbas said in his tweet, while Ranvir Shorey tweeted: “Bollywood is a dark, incestuous world, where insecurity can often be a fatal flaw.”

Anna M.M. Vetticad, author of The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic, added: “You never know what lies behind the glitz and the smiles.”

Jiah’s death shocked everyone, including her mentor filmmaker Ram Gopal Varma.

Jiah, whose real name was Nafisa, studied acting in the Lee Starsberg Institute in New York, was depressed and scared about her future, revealed Varma, who launched the Britain-born talent opposite Amitabh Bachchan in Nishabd in 2007.

She was 19 back then, confident, spunky and with more spirit than any debutant actress that he had ever directed, Varma says.

Perhaps, it faded away with time, when she managed just three films - Nishabd, Ghajini andHousefull in the six years that she spent in tinsel town. She had no work for the last six years. She was reportedly trying to foray into southern cinema, but in vain, and her personal life wasn’t very rosy either.

Jiah isn’t the first actress who let her failed career or crumbled personal life pull her intodepression, and hence, as many would say, “into the hands of god”.

There was the infamous southern siren Silk Smitha, who touched peaks of fame, attained almost iconic status as a sex symbol in Tamil cinema and then, following personal and financial hassles, was found dead at her Chennai home in 1996. She was 33. It was said to be a case of suicide.

The 1993 death of young and successful actress Divya Bharti continues to be a mystery. The Deewana fame actress fell to death from a window sill and it was reported that she was depressed.

Models-turned-actresses Nafisa Joseph and Kuljeet Randhawa, who worked together in “C.A.T.S”, the Indian adaptation of hit US show “Charlie’s Angels”, also resorted to suicide by hanging themselves in 2004 and 2006 respectively.

According to Ann Simi John, clinical psychologist, Columbia Asia Hospital, Gurgaon, “most suicide cases are related to either relationships, especially breakup or divorce.”

There are a few cases related to work or unemployment but the basic problem remains that “nowadays people have a lot of expectations from future, have rigid form of thinking, lack problem solving skills and have inability to cope”, she said.

In her view, only 15-20 percent of people who commit suicide are actually clinically depressed.

Whatever the case, it is important to get emotional and moral support from family and friends.

Actor Tusshar Kapoor, son of veteran actor Jeetendra, and brother of successful film producerEkta Kapoor, wonders “how many young actors there are who lack a support system and get crushed under the dark side of showbiz”.

However, it is vital to remember that “there’s life beyond your profession and there’s life beyond your partner too”, tweeted actor Ayushmann Khurrana, who won overnight fame with his debut film Vicky Donor. “It’s pertinent to have a stable mind in this fickle showbiz,” he added.

The basic necessity for anyone going through an emotional crisis is “to be surrounded by loved ones, who can help them pick up and bounce back, not succumb under pressure,” said Raveena Tandon.

In 1962, legendary Hollywood star Marilyn Monroe was found dead in her home. Almost five decades on, have things really changed for women in showbiz – in Hollywood or in Bollywood?
Earlier on Monday, the police recorded Jiah’s mother Rabiya’s statement again, where she repeated her allegation that Suraj was the man Jiah addressed her letter to.

Jiah’s family found the letter in her handbag and gave it to the police on Saturday.

“We registered an FIR under the IPC’s section 306 (abetment of suicide) on the basis of Rabiya Khan’s statement and arrested Suraj. We will produce him in the Andheri court on Tuesday for remand,” said senior inspector Arun Bhagat of the Juhu police station.

The police had initially stated there was no evidence against Suraj, but after the letter’s appearance, they consulted legal experts about its contents before deciding to book Suraj. A police team went to the Pancholi residence in Juhu around 5pm and took Suraj in custody. His mother and sister followed him to the police station in a separate car; they left from there around 9pm.

The police have said that before Jiah’s suicide, Suraj spent two nights with her. On her last day, she phoned him, wanting to meet him, but he refused; instead, they had an argument. The police have been examining Jiah’s phone for communication details. In Suraj’s phone, they found the messages the two exchanged deleted.

On Monday, Rabiya also held a press conference at her home, in which she reiterated that Jia’s suicide was not due to a lack of assignments, but her troubled relationship with Suraj. “My point is to tell you the truth. It is being said that she was depressed and had no work, but it was not the case,” Rabiya said. “She was attending at least three to four events a month. She was making money and was living comfortably in her house with two maids and even had a car and a driver. It was the insecurity that her love was not respected and recognized that was killing her day by day.”

Aditya Pancholi’s son to be produced in court today

Actor Jiah Khan’s family found in her handbag a letter she wrote before committing suicide and gave it to the police on Saturday. The police had failed to recover it when they studied her room following her death.

“We registered an FIR under the IPC’s section 306 (abetment of suicide) on the basis of Rabiya Khan’s statement and arrested Suraj. We will produce him in the Andheri court on Tuesday for remand,” said senior inspector Arun Bhagat of the Juhu police station.

The police had initially stated there was no evidence against Suraj, but after the letter’s appearance, consulted legal experts before deciding to book Suraj. A police team went to the Pancholi residence in Juhu around 5 pm and took Suraj in custody. His mother and sister followed him to the police station in a separate car; they left the place around 9 pm.

The police have said that a day before Jiah’s suicide, Suraj spent two nights with her. On her last day, she phoned him, wanting to meet him, but he refused; instead, they had an argument. The police have been examining Jiah’s phone. In Suraj’s phone, they found the messages the two exchanged deleted. On Monday morning, ACP (west region) Vishwas Nangre-Patil and DCP Chhering Dorje, along with other officers, visited Jiah’s residence for more clues.

Bollywood superstar Amitabh Bachchan says that he is very upset over the suicide of actress Jiah Khan.

“I am very sad and also worried. It feels strange to talk about it. Sometimes there are situations when someone gets sad and depressed. They come with dreams and when it is not fulfilled, they give up. I want to say that to end your life like this is not good. I am deeply upset with what has happened with Jiah Khan,” he said at an event on Wednesday.

The 25-year-old Britain-born Jiah was found hanging at her flat in Sagar Sangeet Building in the posh Juhu area of northwest Mumbai around midnight when her parents had gone out.

Jiah shot into the limelight with her 2007 debut movie Nishabd in which she starred opposite Amitabh Bachchan. She was also seen in films like Ghajini and Housefull.

146,500 delegates from 161 divisions nationwide sees matchwinner in Muhyiddin Najib no longer have the same idealistic as his father  facing an existential question.UMNO division leaders saw the need for the UMNO to emerge as the single largest in the next election G14 by a wide margin.Politicians Najib, like film stars and sporting icons, are often denied a last hurrah. The temptation to linger on can turn into an obsession fed by a close circle that filters and mutates reality.  Muhyiddin peripatetic to have found his final ambition  be elected UMNO president,to Najib a bridge too far whose sole concern was the not his race. leaders like  Najib are now concerned just with their personal agendas.If anyone thinks  Najib would write this line in his letter to 146,500 delegates from 161 divisions nationwide, without knowing its repercussions, he is fooling himself. He is too smart and canny a politician not to know all this. And it is this attitude that has surprised many, for, it seems the very charge that he is leveling against others, actually applies to him even more.

It is Malaysia’s courtesy to be a good host to the participants of the Global Summit of Women which was held in Kuala Lumpur last week.Women, Family and Community Development Minister Rohani Abdul Karim respond to a memorandum from a Mongolian delegation that sought her help to provide answers to the murder of Altantuya Shaariibuu,a solution should be found to the questions raised by MONGOLIAN DELEGATION soon in the interest of  UMNO as well as the nation.,  Tengku Adnan Mansor who is a close associate of  Najib, also expressed hope that a solution will be found when Najib will reconsider his decision to recontest  the UMNO President post

Tengku Adnan Mansor is the least qualified to speak about the rule of law and following the law. This politician was found guilty by the Royal Commission of Inquiry of subverting the course of justice by trying to fix the appointment of judges.

The RCI recommended action against Tengku Adnan and five others for offences under the Sedition Act, Official Secrets Acts, Penal Code and the Legal Profession Act. The government disregarded the findings of the RCI, allowing Tengku Adnan to continue his political career. So today, he is a minister, giving him the platform to preach and lecture Malaysians, as he did when he chastised the Opposition for continuing its mass rallies.

“I would like to advise that we live in a place with law and order…we do not follow the laws of the jungle, “ he said, explaining why the police refused to grant a permit for the Opposition rally in Padang Merbok.

Can someone found guilty of subverting the rule of law talk about law and order? Can a compromised individual take the moral high ground?

They promised to pay the Mongolian interpreter but didn’t … The carpet fellow also didn’t get paid his promised amounts.. PI Bala… he didn’t get paid the full promised sum. Do you begin to see the trend here? whatever gave these idiots the notion that people will believe that any promises made are going to be kept? You would have to be a new born sucker to believe that anyone of these bunch will keep their promises.Their language may not have been as colourful but  spokespersons did not bat an eyelid as they asserted

As this internationally known scandal does not seem to go away, now or later, Umno members must seriously think hard for the sake of the party and the government.

The Umno election which will be using a new system following amendments to the party constitution in October 2009, will determine Umno’s direction henceforth in facing the next general election.

Under the amended party constitution, the nomination quota for the top posts  – from Surpreme Council member post right up to president – were abolished, hence providing the biggest opportunity for any party member to contest with the minimum condition of having been a member of the Supreme Council or divisional committee for at least one term.

However, the question is whether the coming election of a political party with some 3.2 million members can provide leaders capable of meeting the needs and aspirations of its grassroot members and the people at large.

Some political analysts and party leaders feel that for Umno to remain relevant, fresh and mature in tandem with the political transformation agenda, the party election this time should make room for new faces to contest, hence creating echelon leaders capable of facing future challenges.

Acording to Assoc Prof Dr Samsul Adabi Mamat of Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia (UKM), the Umno election this time is crucial, considering that Umno is the pillar of Barisan Nasional (BN) and heading the national leadership.

He said that unlike the elections of the other BN component parties, the Umno election inveterably determined that the individuals winning the party president and deputy president posts would be appointed as prime minister and deputy prime minister respectively.

For the first time in the party’s history, Umno will see 146,500 delegates from 191 divisions directly electing its top leadership. Before this, only 2,500 delegates had been making the choice at the party’s general assembly.

“The abolition of the quota and increase in the number of delegates who will be voting is a transformation process in an effort to improve the quality of the Umno leadership.

“This huge democratic space provided by Umno should be taken advantage of by the party members to choose leaders who are really qualified and acceptable to the people to helm the party, hence strengthening Umno,” added Samsul Adabi,from the university’s Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, when contacted.

However, there are those who feel that to get leaders capable of meeting the aspirations of the grassroots and acceptable to the general public, all the top party posts including the president, should be contested.

Supporting this view, Samsul Adabi said to people outside the party, having contests for important party posts would show real democracy in Umno.

“What the people actually want to see are contests for these posts. After the party election had been put on hold for a few years, there are however those clamouring for the president and deputy president posts to be uncontested. This does not reflect what is desired as contained in the party’s new constitution.

“Having contests for the main party posts will also determine that the leadership chosen is acceptable to the party grassroots and the ‘rakyat’ (people),” he said.

Will the Umno election this time also able to attract more people from outside the party, especially the young generation, to support Umno?

Samsul Adabi opined that if there were contests for all the top posts, the party would be able to win back the support of the middle-class voters who were said to have rejected Umno, besides giving the message that the party was really serious about transformation.

However, there have been calls of late coming from some party leaders for the party president post, currently held by Najib Tun Razak, and the deputy president post, held by  Muhyiddin Yassin, not to be contested this time.

This is because the two leaders had managed to increase the number of parliamentary seats won by Umno from 79 in the 2008 general election to 88 in the recent 13th general election.

The question of whether the two top posts should be contested has received mixed reaction from Umno leaders as there are also those who want the quota system be re-introduced.

Samsul Adabi said the coming Umno election should indeed be the best platform towards empowering and strengthening Umno before facing the next general election.

Umno Youth deputy chief, Razali Ibrahim said a party election showed healthy democratic practice in Umno and the maturity of its members in choosing leaders to steer the party.

“What is important is for Umno to reflect maturity and real democracy. I hope the election this time will go on well no matter what, as we want to show transparency, integrity and democracy,” he said.

Puteri Umno head, Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin said the abolition of the quota system which was unanimously supported by the party members, gave the message to the general public that Umno was serious about change, besides giving  the members total freedom to choose the party’s top leaders.

“The outcome of the Umno election will reflect that the party’s leadership is the grassroots’ choice,” she said.

100 years from now, history students cannot differentiate Imelda Marcos from this fat lady.

Are you the reincarnation of Mao Tsetung, Rosmah? Wouldn’t be surprised if YOU are the Chinese tsunami your chubby hubby referred to.

Fat, short and ugly piece of shit. Any tom, dick and harry will surely go for the Mongolian instead of her. Even the Mongolian ass is much better looking.

Rosmah Mansor is feeling the loneliness of her “top level” position – she only has her husband and Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak to complain to about allegations levelled at her in the social media. what real men want with the accompanying hems & haws?! Give me a break! Might as well I support the foaming in the mouth Cheeky fellow to regulate online portals like how Singapore did it. Come to think of it, perhaps Fat Mama’s complains to Jibby yielded some results i.e. REGULATING online portals starting with Mkini

What with the botox lady,… you are making your face look bigger than your hair. And I really like your kindergarden level of research. And “(However,) after five years, when the business is in trouble, they go to banks and ask for money”. Waahh so easy aah? I also want to ask the banks for money, can or not?Don’t poke your nose into Government affairs unless you are given a task to carry out . . . There’s going to be an International Conference on the Malaysia Agreement in Kota Kinabalu on Sept 13. Had the Malaysia Agreement been complied with, it would have been 50 years old this year. The Conference, sponsored by the Borneo Heritage Foundation, will be moderated by Tan Sri Simon Sipaun who has been preaching all his adult life that “life was better in Sabah before Malaysia”. He was even interrogated once on this after a police report was lodged against him. Tan Sri Simon was a former Sabah state secretary, vice chairman of the Malaysian Human Rights Commission and Advisor to the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission . . readmoreThe whizkid dealmaker Low Taek Jho (Jho Low),,too close to Rosmah Mansor

What young men want’

Rosmah’s Luxury Lifestyles Remembering  Rospussy juice

Maybe Umno members can do what the 51 percent of voters who voted for Pakatan in the recent general election cannot.readmore Suara Keadilan Malaysia blogged INSP AZILAH HADRI, 30, AND KPL SIRUL AZHAR TOLD LAWYER ZULKIFLI NORDIN ORDER COME FROM NAJIB

The Altantuya’s slain story has now snowballed into the biggest insult to our nation, its citizens and our revered DYMM Yang Di Pertuan Agung owing to the government’s failure in ensuring speedy and transparent justice is dispensed with. In damaging our national reputation and the integrity of justice, we have seen shame assaulting our sovereign nation.

Who takes the blame for this national curse?When is the case actually settled? The two convicted did not have motives to kill her. Who then has/have the motives to do so. Since Altantunya was not known to the two accused, logic will tell us that they did on instructions from somebody. Yes, it is somebody who had the motives to have Altantunya removed. Altantunya case is not complete until this somebody is arressted and successfully charged in the court!!! And there may be more than one mudrerer who gets away. Yes, it is so sad that the murderer(s) could go scott free in a case that doesn’t require the skill of Perry Mason’s expertise to solve!!

Najib Razak and his fondness for beautiful women

it has proven in court that it was Malaysia government officers (Police in this case) that murder the Mongolian women. Shouldn’t the Malaysian government need to officially respond and explain to the Mongolia government and her people (specially her family) on WHY and HOW your police can end up killing their citizen and make some-kind of official apology and compensations?

Rosmah’s Luxury Lifestyles Remembering  Rospussy juice

The dislocation produced by age becomes even stronger when rosmah look at those considerably older than ourselves. Were our grandparents ever really young? Of course, we have all seen their photographs, those sepia tinted assertions of their once-youth. But it seems as if the people in those photographs are other people, with an admittedly striking if faded resemblance to the real articles in front of us. Their youth seems to Rosmah like a land far, far away and stories about the times when they were young have a dreamy, fable like quality. One doesn’t quite locate those stories in the same terrain as one on which we lead our lives. Their youth seems like an aberration or at best, a vehicle for getting them to this point and making them what they are today. To use a common benchmark, who would argue with the claim that Najib and Rosmah were never young. Their youth is a manufactured back story, one that takes place quickly in the first ten minutes of a film, so that we can get on to the real story,.

THEY’RE FAMED AS MUCH FOR THEIR WORK AND TALENT AS THEY ARE FOR THEIR DARK TRAITS, THEN BE IT THEIRWOMANISING BEHAVIOUR OR FOR BEING MOODY, AGGRESIVE AND TEMPREMENTAL. YET THERE’S SOMETHING ABOUT SUCH ‘BAD BOYS’ THAT MAKES THEM INSANELY LIKEABLE TO THE OPPOSITE SEX. CHECK THIS OUT. BE IT SHANE WARNE OR SALMAN KHAN OR SANJAY DUTT OR COLIN FARRELL, THEY CONTINUE TO ENJOY AN EVER GROWING FEMALE FAN FOLLOWING.

On the fact that there are more female than male undergraduates in local universities, Rosmah opined that this is because young men have other priorities.

“They want to earn money fast, they want to do business, they don’t want to enter university,” she said.

“(However,) after five years, when the business is in trouble, they go to banks and ask for money. When (the loan application is rejected and they are) forced to close the business, it is (seen as) the government’s fault.

“I don’t know what’s happening to you men. You’d better to think of your species very seriously.”

She urged the men present at the event – mainly comprising senior government officers – to encourage young men to complete their tertiary studies

“I want to touch on ICT use. You have to take it seriously. You should know what to (accept) and what not (to accept). You need to use rational and objective information.

She said information spread on online and in the social media are “sometimes lies”.

In a new study, researchers have investigated what factors influence dishonest behaviour.

Previous research has shown that a person’s first instinct is to serve his or her own self-interestand that people are more likely to lie when they can justify such lies to themselves.

With these findings in mind, psychological scientists Shaul Shalvi of the University of Amsterdam and Ori Eldar and Yoella Bereby-Meyer of Ben-Gurion University colleagues hypothesized that, when under time pressure, having to make a decision that could yield financial reward would make people more likely to lie.

They also hypothesized that, when people are not under time pressure, they are unlikely to lie if there is no opportunity to rationalize their behaviour.

“According to our theory, people first act upon their self-serving instincts, and only with time do they consider what socially acceptablebehaviour is,” Shalvi said.

“When people act quickly, they may attempt to do all they can to secure a profit—including bending ethical rules and lying. Having more time to deliberate leads people to restrict the amount of lying and refrain from cheating,” Shalvi said.

For the study, the researchers first tested participants’ tendency to lie when doing so could be easily justified – approximately 70 adult participants rolled a die three times such that the result was hidden from the experimenter’s view.

The participants were told to report the first roll, and they earned more money for a higher reported roll.

Seeing the outcomes of the second and third rolls provided the participants with the opportunity to justify reporting the highest number that they rolled, even if it was not the first – after all, they had rolled that number, just not the first time they rolled the die.

Some of the participants were under time pressure, and were instructed to report their answer within 20 seconds. The others were not under time pressure, and had an unlimited amount of time to provide a response.

The experimenters were not able to see the actual die rolls of the participants, to ensure all rolls were private. Instead, in order to determine whether or not the participants had lied about the numbers they rolled, Shalvi and colleagues compared their responses to those that would be expected from fair rolls.

They found that both groups of participants lied, but those who were given less time to report their numbers were more likely to lie than those who weren’t under a time constraint.

The second experiment followed a similar procedure, except that the participants were not given information that could help them justify their lies – instead of rolling their die three times, they only rolled it once and then reported the outcome.

In this experiment, the researchers found that participants who were under time pressure lied, while those without a time constraint did not.

Together, the two experiments suggest that, in general, people are more likely to lie when time is short. When time isn’t a concern, people may only lie when they have justifications for doing so.

“One implication of the current findings is that to increase the likelihood of honest behaviour in business or personal settings, it is important not push a person into a corner but rather to give him or her time,” Shalvi said.

“People usually know it is wrong to lie, they just need time to do the right thing,” Shalvi added.

The study has been published in Psychological Science.

Did Nurul committed graft in defaming Nong Chik to win in the 13th general election for the Lembah Pantai parliamentary seat, alleging that the latter had committed a graft offence in defaming BN candidate Raja Nong Chik Zainal Abidin and his supporters as purportedly having destroyed two ballot boxes and papers.

We have a bunch of gangsters claiming that they have lost and need to seek justice because the good guys had won in spite of the cheating and fouls deployed by this bunch of gangsters. What a bunch of complete evil retards. It looks like the EC is being stabbed from behind by its own gang members. BN is not satisfied with minority government status. BN wants to be downgraded to minority 2/3 majority government status if ever there is such a thing.

so this is the strategy of the Najib govt to counter the election petitions by the opposition. lodge counter petitions which are frivolous. this is like a filibuster where a perfectly valid submissions are blocked by frivolous counter submissions. if we go by their logic, then bn politicians are much more guilty of defamation and in many documented cases, race-baiting, hate mongering etc. BUT the objectives of these filibustering petitions are not the truth but to so clutter up the public domain and the courts that the whole point of unfair and one-sided electoral practice is smothered and hopefully forgotten as the public tires of incessant snipping. to effectively counter such filibuster (only in the court of public opinion, forget about the courts) is to present each petition and argument in well-reasoned explanation and well-researched and documented facts. the shallow nature of such filibustering counter-petition will defeat itself in the public domain.

 

The National Union of Journalists (NUJ) has admitted receiving donations amounting between RM2,000 and RM3,000 on an annual basis from Federal Territories and Urban Well Being Minister, Raja Nong Chik Raja Zainal Abidin. Anbalagan was responding to allegations made by

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Hishammuddin repeatedly referred to his pal as the person closest to the people in the area, well-received by residents and committed his full support behind Raja Nong Chik in whatever he is doing.THIS TAXIDERIVER  shall take  RAJA NONG CHIK to bed and have his way with you  I will make you ache, shake, sweat until you moan and groan. I will make you beg for mercy, beg for me to stop. I will exhaust you to the point that you will be relieved when I’m finished with … Read more

Najib has boasted of possessing a 56 inch chest which knows no disease- on the day the results were declared, he developed a ‘tooth ache’ which took him right back to on a TV show to comment on this sudden toothache, I said “Mr. Najibi had earlier campaigned, the voters gave him a knock-out punch wherein he lost half his teeth. middle-class Malays have now punched out his remaining teeth. He has left UMNO shamed by being rendered completely toothless.”   The najib had been badly mauled in virtually every place that Najibhad deigned to campaign.

All five political aides to Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be dropped from office for purportedly putting their interests above the prime minister’s in what is seen as a move to axe the deadwood weighing down his office ahead of Umno elections this year, Barisan Nasional (BN) sources have told The Malaysian Insider.

Handpicked to run in the May 5 polls, Datuk Latt Shariman Abdullah, Datuk Shahlan Ismail, Datuk Mohd Shafei Abdullah, Datuk Mohamad Fatmi Che Salleh and Datuk Mohamed Suffian Awang have come under attack from Umno bloggers and pro-establishment critics following their embarrassing defeat in the 13th general election.

The five had been seen by Najib’s “war room” strategists as having the best chances to give a fillip to the ruling BN in its bid to regain the coalition’s two-thirds supermajority in Parliament lost since Election 2008.

Highly-placed sources  said 146,500 delegates from 161 divisions nationwide to the suggestion to remove  Najib is said to be particularly sore with Rosmah, who has frequently opposed rollback of decisions in the face of the patriarch’s sustained protests.

If the truce appears to have dentedNajibi’s authority, his eagerness to have peace at not-so-respectable terms has amplified the message about Muhyiddin  being the clear favourite of the Malays for the PM’s post. The unyielding stance of the  146,500 delegates drove home the point that they would stick with Muhyiddin   even at the cost of a revolt by some divisions in favour of Najib

In 2009,headed by Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin  a special Umno general assembly approved constitutional amendments giving 146,500 delegates the right to vote for the leadership, abolishing the quota system, simultaneous delegates meeting, and allow more women appointees, as  UMNO member , feel vulnerable and it is therefore my moral responsibility Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin today refused to exclude a potential contest for the top Umno posts later this year, saying only that he will reveal his position “when the right time comes”.“As we know Umno is a democratic party. It’s not the individual’s right but the rights of members and party that matters. I will not comment, wait until when the right time come,” Muhyiddin was quoted as quoted as saying by state news agency Bernama at a Barisan Nasional (BN) thanksgiving function in Kundang Ulu, Johor today.“But the problem is that some UMNO members cannot differentiate between the government decisions and their implementation by the bureaucracy. Hence, if the schemes that have been announced are not fulfilled, it will be the ruling party which will face the music,” he adds. He says there is still time for the party to rectify the situation members electing the right UMNO president.Why almost all Malay leaders  are silent

But in truth, Nazir only added to the problems faced by Datuk Seri Najib and Umno,” the former minister said in a blog posting that was published in Utusan Malaysia today.

Utusan’s “brave” backing of Umno in fighting off the anti-Umno elements that have eroded public confidence in the government had also opened the newspaper to financial risks, Zam said.

But this resulted in a stronger Umno representation in Parliament, its twin success in recapturing Kedah and Perak, and a larger number of state seats in the Kelantan legislative assembly, he noted.

But Umno bloggers have blasted Najib for allowing his aides to contest in the polls, arguing variously that the five men had little grassroots support in their constituencies.

BN ultimately won 133 seats in the 222-member Dewan Rakyat and Umno, the coalition lynchpin, took 88 federal seats in Election 2013 ― up nine from 2008.

But several party veterans have blamed the party and BN’s lacklustre performance on Najib’s “war room” strategists, and hinted that the prime minister might be shown the door if he does not remove his strategists for their bad advice.

Najib’s two special officers, Shahlan and Latt Shariman, were beaten by PAS candidates in Kedah although BN succeeded in snatching back the rice-farming state from the PR pact.

Shahlan lost by 3,935 votes to PAS vice-president Datuk Mahfuz Omar in the Pokok Sena federal seat while Latt Shariman was defeated by PAS’s Mohd Nasir Mustafa by a 1,044-vote majority in the Kubang Rotan state seat.

Mohd Shafei, who is Najib’s political secretary in the Finance Ministry, lost to PKR’s Datuk Dr Tan Tee Kwong by a 5,511-vote margin in the fight for a seat in the Kuala Lumpur Federal Territory, which was significantly bigger than the 2008 results.

Two other special officers, Mohamad Fatmi Mohamed Suffian, were also trounced in the contest for Kota Baru and Kuantan respectively.

The culling of the losers is the first sign of Najib’s seriousness in ridding himself of his advisors, many of whom have been blamed for misreading the ground ahead of the closely-fought election.

The BN “war room” had been tasked with selecting the candidates and advising various strategies to win the polls.

It counted Rompin MP Datuk Seri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis, Putra World Trade Centre chairman Datuk Seri Dr Alies Anor Abdul, Petronas director Omar Mustapha Ong, Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor, party information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan and former Terengganu mentri besar Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh as among its members.

The war room had stuck to its prediction of BN winning between 145 and 150 federal seats and also getting back Selangor in Election 2013 although some senior BN leaders were privately doubtful of the figures.

And by noon on Polling Day, the war room had issued its “white list” of 118 federal seats it was sure to win, but some like Pasir Mas, Shah Alam and Lembah Pantai were lost, which some Umno divisional leaders said reflected the disconnect between the leadership and the ground.

The country’s sixth prime minister is also under pressure from Umno to distance himself from his “war room” planners, namely Alies Anor, Omar and Jamaluddin, a party insider had told The Malaysian Insider.

Several disgruntled east Malaysian MPs met with veteran Umno lawmaker Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah last night to discuss their positions after not getting anything for their wins in the closely-fought Election 2013, pointing to a lengthening line-up to rattle Najib after he won his first personal mandate with fewer seats than his predecessor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.

Analysts and other political observers have said that Najib’s leadership of Umno may be challenged in the party polls due year end, which could also unravel his hold over the 13-party BN coalition and undermine his default position as prime minister.

Datuk Seri Nazir Razak was today faulted for plunging brother Datuk Seri Najib Razak and Umno deeper into a post-polls “crisis of confidence” following his defence of AirAsia X CEO Azman Osman Rani’s against criticism from Utusan Malaysia.

Former Umno minister Tan Sri Zainuddin Maidin, or “Zam” as he is popularly called, accused Nazir of failing to understand that the ruling party may not have maintained its Malay support in Election 2013 without the Umno-owned newspaper.

He said Nazir, the CEO of CIMB Group and the younger brother to Prime Minister Najib, had likely thought that Barisan Nasional (BN) would recapture some of lost support from the Chinese had Utusan Malaysia not targeted the community.

Nazir defended Azman for his forthright attitude in daring to criticise Utusan Malaysia, saying that this is the “mark of a leader”.

Zam asked if labelling Azman forthright and frank meant Nazir was joining the ranks of those who have accused Utusan Malaysia of being racist.

“To me, the assumption that Utusan is racist is subjective. It depends on the school of thought or the leaning of a person, as well as his or her educational background… and this is every individual’s respective right,” he said.

“But what I feel was unsuitable was Azran’s intolerant behaviour. Just because he disagreed with the paper’s stand, he threatened to withdraw AirAsia advertisements.

“Sentiments and prejudice influenced his actions,” Zam wrote.

“Is this the behaviour of an educated person who believes in freedom and democracy, openness and globalisation? Is this not considered an abuse of power or irrational action?” he asked.

Zam suggested insolence on Azman’s part, accusing the AirAsia X chief of assuming that because Utusan Malaysia should follow his political leanings because it carried advertisements from the airlines.

“Utusan knows a lot of negative issues about AirAsia and has kept it under wraps, like the other papers, for the sake of advertisements or money from it, but it looks like this alone is not good enough for AirAsia CEO Azran,” he said.

“Surely his spirits will soar even higher with the support of Nazir, brother to Najib, the prime minister of Malaysia, who does not understand the crisis of confidence that Najib and Umno now faces,” Zam added.

In the just-concluded May 5 polls, BN retained power but with a reduced seat margin, scoring 133 seats to Pakatan Rakyat’s (PR) 89 seats in Parliament.

Amid the reduced victory, Umno emerged the most victorious among all BN component parties, sweeping up 88 seats ― 11 seats more than the 79 it won in Election 2008.

A divided Malaysia emerged after the election and in his first speech to declare BN’s victory, Najib said the results showed that a “Chinese tsunami” had occurred and declared the need for national reconciliation.

This set the tone for the post-polls discourse as many Umno and BN leaders, taking a leaf from the prime minister, set out to paint the general election as a Chinese versus Malay contest.

Malay-language Utusan Malaysia appeared to go on an anti-Chinese rampage, publishing daily articles on its front page and its editorials to criticise the community for bailing on BN in the polls.

One article, headlined “Apa lagi Cina mahu?” (What more do the Chinese want?), sparked massive outrage among the Chinese community and opposition politicians, and even went viral across the Internet as netizens slammed the Malay paper for being too overt in racist stance.

It was then that Azman, captain of the long-haul budget airline AirAsia X, took to his Twitter account to criticise Utusan Malaysia for what he reportedly saw as a racial instigation in the aftermath of the May 5 polls.

He was also reported to have criticised Malay group Perkasa for its hardline stance as an irrelevant organisation that had caused Malays to be myopic.

In response, the paper published daily views from Perkasa leaders, the Muslim Consumers Society of Malaysia and pro-Umno activists who slammed Azran, branding him “arrogant” and a Malay who had forgotten his roots.

On May 19, Utusan columnist Awang Selamat — the nom-de-plume for the paper’s collective editorial voice — told the Umno-owned paper to stop taking the airline’s ads until its sister company’s chief executive apologises for criticising the broadsheet’s racist piece.

Awang also called for a nationwide boycott on the airline.

“Awang would like to suggest that the Utusan Group not accept any AirAsia ad as long as there is no apology. Let the company’s advertisement go to another paper, but not Utusan.

“Without AirAsia, Awang Selamat will not have any problem. Furthermore, the value of the advertisement given is very small, lower than advertisements for herbal and hair treatments,” it said.

Politicians are entitled to reinvent themselves. And because we live in an era of instant coffee, they believe, perhaps, that masks can be worn and shed at will and images changed with the wave of Najib’s hand But can he abandon the muscular brand of politics that has served him so well  during the last UMNO election made him a runaway success with thedivision leaders rank and file, for the conciliatory approach that made him UMNO leader? Can he shrink his 56-inch chest and soften his machismo to deal with the likes of  Mahathir and Muhyuddin?Drumbeaters about the dangers of dumping the tradition of collective leadership for the ephe-meral benefits of personality-driven politics and the havoc this would wreak upon the party’s DNA.Najib anyway can be forced resign as Prime Minister he is playing with fire.

Members of  Parliament from Sabah and Sarawak who met Tengku Razaleigh are not expected to reveal their intentions until Parliament starts on June 24. were dissappointed with Najib decisions to appointment of new cabinet . ”now concerned with new ministers on  own their personal agendas.They are seeing Ku Li to see what they can do to express their disappointment

Umno won 88 federal seats in Election 2013, up nine from 2008 but several party veterans have blamed the party and BN’s lacklustre performance on Najib’s “war room” strategists, and hinting that the prime minister might be shown the door if he doesn’t remove his strategists for their bad advice.BN took 47 of the 56 federal seats in Sabah and Sarawak, contributing one-third of the 133 federal seats it won in the elections despite both states only having a quarter of the 222 seats in Parliament,east Malaysian MPs are the latest to rattle Najib after he won his first personal mandate with fewer seats than his predecessor Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.Najib is already under pressure from within Umno and now this, just after a poor result in the pollsPrime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak doled out 20 ministerial and deputy ministerial posts to east Malaysian MPs, leaving parties like Sarawak’s SPDP without any representatives despite winning four federal seats. Read more

Najib still on tenterhooks

The high-voltage drama in  UMNO began with  Umno bloggers have blasted Najib for allowing his aides to contest in the polls, arguing variously that the five men had little grassroots support in their constituencies. an unexpected bang public rebuke helped catapult to power. It ended, swiftly and just as unexpectedly, with a whimper:So what do the assurances that party president Najib gave to the miffed patriarch amount to? He will doubtless be given a major say in the way the party functions and in the choice of candidates. But that isn’t likely to go down well with UMNO members who brooks no challenge to his authority. The rumblings of the latest drama are thus likely to continue and, whenever the chips are down, turn yet again into a spectacle of a house divided.  There is no such elements as CONSCIENCE, ETHICS, MORALS, HONOUR AND HONESTY……There is only blind greed and contagious corruption…

The BN “war room” had been tasked with selecting the candidates and advising various strategies to win the polls.

It counted Rompin MP Datuk Seri Dr Jamaluddin Jarjis, Putra World Trade Centre chairman Datuk Seri Dr Alies Anor Abdul, Petronas director Omar Mustapha Ong, Umno secretary-general Datuk Seri Tengku Adnan Mansor, party information chief Datuk Ahmad Maslan and former Terengganu mentri besar Datuk Seri Idris Jusoh as among its members.

The war room had stuck to its prediction of BN winning between 145 and 150 federal seats and also getting back Selangor in Election 2013 although some senior BN leaders were privately doubtful of the figures.

And by noon on Polling Day, the war room had issued its “white list” of 118 federal seats it was sure to win, but some like Pasir Mas, Shah Alam and Lembah Pantai were lost, which some Umno divisional leaders said reflected the disconnect between the leadership and the ground.

The country’s sixth prime minister is also under pressure from Umno to distance himself from his “war room” planners, namely Alies Anor, Omar and Jamaluddin,

DAP secretary-general and Penang Chief Minister Lim Guan Eng has questioned the appointment of Tengku Adnan Tengku Mansor to Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak’s cabinet, since Tengku Adnan has been involved in the “Lingam-gate” affair.. In fact the whole cabinet consist of a bunch of criminals. WhenNajib  has no integrity, whoever’s appointed obviously would be of questionable character. If, the bench mark are credibility and integrity, then all the ministers would have to step down. When the whole govt has no integrity, whoever’s appointed obviously would be of questionable character. If, the bench mark are credibility and integrity, then all the ministers would have to step down

All five political aides to Datuk Seri Najib Razak will be dropped from office for purportedly putting their interests above the prime minister’s in what is seen as a move to axe the deadwood weighing down his office ahead of Umno elections this yearHandpicked to run in the May 5 polls, Datuk Latt Shariman Abdullah, Datuk Shahlan Ismail, Datuk Mohd Shafei Abdullah, Datuk Mohamad Fatmi Che Salleh and Datuk Mohamed Suffian Awang have come under attack from Umno bloggers and pro-establishment critics following their embarrassing defeat in the 13th general election.

The five had been seen by Najib’s “war room” strategists as having the best chances to give a fillip to the ruling BN in its bid to regain the coalition’s two-thirds supermajority in Parliament lost since Election 2008.

If all that has been written about the power of the “word of mouse” were to be compiled into a single document, one would possibly never stop scrolling down.the group resurfacing to lead ‘third forcehas alleged misbehaviour from the management, bad service,Bored housewife. Extra-marital affair. Blackmail. And then a match between the wife and the blackmailer. A match of whose a worse person. Like they say, the match could go either way.Najib fails to understand why he is heading a minority govt. People are fed up with this kind of nonsense going on with the govt. It seems that crime does pay in Malaysia especially if you are aligned to Umno/BN. There is no real reform going because there is no political will to do so. Steps taken by the govt to reform is like bottling old wine in a new bottle example MACC, EAIC, etc.

Najib fails to understand why he is heading a minority govt. People are fed up with this kind of nonsense going on with the govt. It seems that crime does pay in Bolehland especially if you are aligned to Umno/BN. There is no real reform going because there is no political will to do so. Steps taken by the govt to reform is like bottling old wine in a new bottle .

It could be a really interesting game of wits and whose worse between bad and evil. Or it could just goin what can be termed virtual harakiri, flock – are still shrouded in a dense fog of mystery. Unless that fog is cleared, it would be hazardous to conclude that the issues have been well and truly settled. is all the more so in view of the one unmistakable fact that has emerged from the drama: the supremacy of the Najib-Rosmah in shaping the destiny of UMNO. will see 146,500 delegates from 191 divisions

On a daily basis the media screams of looting, treachery, suicides, killings, rape, thereby instilling more hopelessness into grey somber moods. There is very little in the news that truly lifts our spirits, we need to look elsewhere for positive news and certainly not dig in the newspapers for it. Malaysia rank in the corruption perception index idoing worse than countries like Zambia, Suriname, Swaziland, Sao Tame & Principe (if you have heard of it), there is very little to cheer about.Yet, like the first rays of sunshine that peeps through grey somber clouds, there is some good news that comes in drips and drabs. And no, the good news is not about how our Crown Prince Najib goes around handing 1000 notes to newspaper boys who are miraculously allowed to break through security cordons to reach the Prince’s VIP convoy. A convoy, which even more hilariously ‘stopped’ at traffic lights. There are more believable stories in this world, stories that need to be cheered. There are real stories that involve other impoverished  and do not indulge in dry symbolism.

Najib must show that he has guts to move into the right, honourable and dignified path by initiating an investigation sinc ethe RCI into theHis stance : you help me, I help you ” will not work, Lingam video tape had revealed improprieties of the highest order, especially in the Judiciary. Quickly he must act; otehrwise he would be dubbed a ” lame duck ” PM. The recent General Election results showed that he won a minority of votes! That showed that the majority of the voters went against BN. Now that teh EC had gazetted the details of the results, it is as clear as daylight that he does not hav ethe support of the majority of voters. That is not the end of teh story; a substantial number of seats are be contested ; and the final verdict will come from the Election Judges. While the cases will come up for hearing, he should not wait for teh outcome; he must act fast now. His ” performance NOW” rings hollow if he fails to act NOW!

For the first time in the party’s history, Umno will see 146,500 delegates from 191 divisions directly electing its top leadership. Before this, only 2,500 delegates had been making the choice at the party’s general assembly.

“The abolition of the quota and increase in the number of delegates who will be voting is a transformation process in an effort to improve the quality of the Umno leadership.

“This huge democratic space provided by Umno should be taken advantage of by the party members to choose leaders who are really qualified and acceptable to the people to helm the party, hence strengthening Umno,” added Samsul Adabi,from the university’s Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, when contacted.

However, there are those who feel that to get leaders capable of meeting the aspirations of the grassroots and acceptable to the general public, all the top party posts including the president, should be contested.

Supporting this view, Samsul Adabi said to people outside the party, having contests for important party posts would show real democracy in Umno.

“What the people actually want to see are contests for these posts. After the party election had been put on hold for a few years, there are however those clamouring for the president and deputy president posts to be uncontested. This does not reflect what is desired as contained in the party’s new constitution.

“Having contests for the main party posts will also determine that the leadership chosen is acceptable to the party grassroots and the ‘rakyat’ (people),” he said.

Will the Umno election this time also able to attract more people from outside the party, especially the young generation, to support Umno?

Samsul Adabi opined that if there were contests for all the top posts, the party would be able to win back the support of the middle-class voters who were said to have rejected Umno, besides giving the message that the party was really serious about transformation.

However, there have been calls of late coming from some party leaders for the party president post, currently held by Najib Tun Razak, and the deputy president post, held by  Muhyiddin Yassin, not to be contested this time.

This is because the two leaders had managed to increase the number of parliamentary seats won by Umno from 79 in the 2008 general election to 88 in the recent 13th general election.

The question of whether the two top posts should be contested has received mixed reaction from Umno leaders as there are also those who want the quota system be re-introduced.

Samsul Adabi said the coming Umno election should indeed be the best platform towards empowering and strengthening Umno before facing the next general election.

Umno Youth deputy chief, Razali Ibrahim said a party election showed healthy democratic practice in Umno and the maturity of its members in choosing leaders to steer the party.

“What is important is for Umno to reflect maturity and real democracy. I hope the election this time will go on well no matter what, as we want to show transparency, integrity and democracy,” he said.

Puteri Umno head, Rosnah Abdul Rashid Shirlin said the abolition of the quota system which was unanimously supported by the party members, gave the message to the general public that Umno was serious about change, besides giving  the members total freedom to choose the party’s top leaders.

“The outcome of the Umno election will reflect that the party’s leadership is the grassroots’ choice,” she said.There is no such elements as CONSCIENCE, ETHICS, MORALS, HONOUR AND HONESTY……There is only blind greed and contagious corruption…Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan, who is also the Umno secretary-general, and mother of all snake But admit it: whatever  the strategic thinking for Tengku Adnan. Tengku Adnan has the future mapped out. Operating procedure for Big Boss: sound resigned if you have to, but don’t resign. Deflect and wait. Do a costume change, don’t alter the script.all … Read more

Some plain speaking by  UMNO division leaders seen to be close to Muhyiddin who did not mince words in telling  Najib that cadre pressure,  is the reason behind to soon to be  elevation that will help to end the crisis UMNO  Muhyiddin  continued to dare and challenge his bete noire 146,500 delegates from 161 divisions nationwide sees matchwinner in Muhyiddin Najib no longer have the same idealistic as his father  facing an existential question.UMNO division leaders saw the need for the UMNO to emerge as the single largest in the next election G14 by a wide margin.  Muhyiddin peripatetic to have found his final ambition  be elected UMNO president,to Najib a bridge too far whose sole concern was the not his race. leaders like  Najib are now concerned just with their personal agendas.If anyone thinks  Najib would write this line in his letter to 146,500 delegates from 161 divisions nationwide, without knowing its repercussions, he is fooling himself. He is too smart and canny a politician not to know all this. And it is this attitude that has surprised many, for, it seems the very charge that he is leveling against others, actually applies to him even more.

Off the record Muhyiddin said ”I have always said Najib is no leader. He is a parrot of Rosmah. First,  Najib’s cronies was used to dislodge me from power. ”A third front will never come up on the horizon. A third front means at least  the thinking here is that  if at least 25 MPs from Barisan Nasional in Sabah and Sarawak leave the ruling party and teamed up with say 10 disgruntled BN MPs from Peninsular, they would be able to change the political equation. , which the citizens will never want. The country needs a stable government. The only option left for r political parties like the UMNO members is to come together, either before or after UMNO elections, and draw up a strategy to make UMNO stable. We will chalk out a common minimum programme, as in the past,

Muhyiddin had gone by “feedback” that the move was scripted by the Tun Mahathir  with UMNO division leaders the senior leader failing to read Muhayiddin’s  popular mood in the party as well as the role NAJIB’S“WAR ROOM”STRATEGISTS SCRIPTED MARGINALIZATION UMNO MEMBERS OF PARLIAMENT AND ELEVATION MPS WHO LACKS THE NECESSARY POLITICAL VIRTUES of those who chose him to encourage the misperception rather than offering an honest picture of events that unfolded in G13 Sources familiar with events said that  Najib precipitated a crisis with  UMNO division with decision to appointment of new cabinet  with new ministers for  own  his personal agend without consulting wtth  Muhyiddin

Halim has certainly ruffled some feathers.Nor Mohamed who is no longer an MP now after being dropped as a parliamentary candidate was recently appointed Deputy Chairman of Khazanah and heads the executive committee of Khazanah.

Unlawful , fraudulent and  criminal abuse,  former minister in the prime minister’s department, Nor Mohamed Yakcop, the government and government investment agency, Khazanah Nasional.

 former corporate kingpin Halim Saad’s billion-ringgit legal suit against former Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department, Nor Mohamed Yakcop, the Government and Khazanah Nasional, which has set the stage for an old can of worms to be reopened. The case sheds some light on what goes on behind closed doors in corporate Malaysia, and the close nexus between the government and business.

“Who did the UMNO assets belong to? (Halim denied strenuously that the assets belonged to UMNO). Why did they (Nor Mohamed, the Government and Khazanah) stop me from making a general offer and going ahead with the put option? And who stopped me from making a general offer and going ahead with the put option?” he asked.

Four-cornered circle

The actual events leading up to the legal suit started in November 17, 1997, when UEM acquired 722.88 million shares or 32.6% in Renong for RM2.3 billion or RM3.24 per share.

(This acquisition raised many eyebrows, and many facets of the deal were never really explained. Read about it tomorrow).

Halim was the largest shareholder of UEM with a direct 16% stake or 372 million shares. In January 1998, Halim in his personal capacity offered to buy UEM’s block of shares in Renong via a put option. In an extraordinary general meeting on Valentine’s day 1998, UEM’s shareholders approved the acceptance of the put option, making it exercisable by UEM at any date between March 1, 2000 and February 28, 2001.

Then in late 2000, UEM exercised the put option at a price of RM3.16 billion, payable in four tranches, with Halim agreeing to pay RM100 million in three instalments — mid-February, July and December 2001– and the remainder paid with interest on May 2002.

According to the suit, Halim paid the first instalment in February 2001, but by mid-2001 was contemplating buying over the remainder of UEM, via Renong in a general offer, which was an alternative to completing the put option.

However in July 2001, Halim was summoned by former Premier Mahathir Mohamad, to the latter’s office in Putrajaya.

During this meeting, Mahathir informed the plaintiff (Halim) that he should allow the government to take over his (Halim’s) shareholdings in the Renong and UEM group, and in that connection asked him to meet Nor Mohamed, his Special Economic Adviser,” Halim’s statement of claim reads.

In meetings with Nor Mohamed on July 12, and 17 of 2001, Halim was advised against proceeding with the put option, and to shelve his general offer plan for UEM, and that the government’s vehicle to take over the companies would be Khazanah.

The go-go years

It was against this backdrop that the likes of Halim Saad, of Renong Bhd fame rose to prominence. Halim first surfaced in corporate Malaysia in 1980, aged 27, when he joined former Finance Minister, Daim Zainuddin’s outfit Peremba where he rose to the ranks of corporate services manager.

Prior to Peremba he had a position with a unit of Ford Motor Co, but it was Peremba and the tutelage of Daim that honed his skills for what lay ahead.Often Halim was referred to as Daim’s protégé, but how close the two are now is anyone’s guess, with contrasting stories surfacing.

Halim was, and still is very sharp. He was known to work long hours, which made him an unpopular employer. He came in at about 11am but worked through the night. He would call people at midnight and grill them,” a merchant banker who has known Halim for many years added.

In no time at all, he was also involved in Daim’s personal companies such as Daza Sdn Bhd, which was later sold to Fleet Group, an UMNO linked company. Halim was also a director of Hatibudi Sdn Bhd (appointed in 1984 at the age of 31) a company which in April 1985 acquired a controlling block in United Engineers (M) Bhd from Singapore’s Overseas Chinese Banking Corp.

However in February 1988, a court ruling based on an appeal by the losing faction for leadership in the UMNO General Asembly of 1987 — Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah and Musa Hitam — held that UMNO was illegal, citing membership irregularities.

UMNO was disbanded and reborn as UMNO Baru.With the old UMNO defunct, assets parked under Hatibudi such as UEM, were taken over by the Official Assignee for safekeeping.

Some say the assets were returned to UMNO, with the likes of Halim being merely caretakers, but others claim the assets were taken over by the former trustees and nominees, Halim included.

At UEM, it was no longer Hatibudi that controlled the company but a new entity, Hatibudi Nominees Sdn Bhd, which had the same shareholders, Halim and Anuar Othman.

There are conflicting views on whether Halim was acting on his own or as a nominee. Halim denied to KiniBiz that he was a nominee.

In January 1988, a month before UMNO was disbanded, when the opposition Democratic Action Party sought legal action on the award of the North-South Highway to UEM, Halim is reported to have stated in an affidavit that he held the shares in Hatibudi in trust for UMNO.

However more recently, in Parliamentary proceedings, Oopposition Leader Anwar Ibrahim, who was then Deputy Prime Minister, and Deputy President of UMNO stated that UEM-Renong had no connection to the political party.

Nevertheless, in early 1990, Halim consolidated UMNO’s old assets under Renong, a smallish property company which he took over. Halim controlled more than 50% of Renong. Among the assets acquired by Renong was Fleet Holdings, in which Halim held a 50% stake.

By March 1991, Halim controlled about 73% of Renong; 15.07% directly and the rest indirectly, through shares held under companies such as Fleet Holdings in which Halim had a 50% equity interest.

Among the companies Renong had under its belt were Hatibudi and Fleet Holdings, which in turn had such choice assets as PLUS Expressways Bhd, Commerce Asset Holdings Bhd (now CIMB), Crest Petroleum Bhd (the forerunner to SapuraKencana Petroleum Bhd), New Straits Times Press (M) Bhd, mobile operator TimeCel, Cement Industries of Malaysia and TV3, to name a few.

However by 1997, a stretched Renong was crumbling under the weight of the Asian financial crisis.Then in November 1997, UEM acquired a 32.6% stake or 722.88 million shares in Renong, at RM3.24 per share or for RM2.3 billion, which caused quite a scare in the market, resulting in the benchmark KLCI losing 20% of its value, and a loss of some RM126 billion in market capitalisation.

During that time, the market was a sea of red… it was just so depressing. Everyday there would be a loss. There was widespread panic,” says a veteran remisier attached to a local brokerage.

During that period, there were also so many unanswered issues, like where UEM acquired the huge block of Renong shares. Halim had said that it was bought via open market purchases, but only 625 million Renong shares were traded over the past three months, prior to UEM’s sudden acquisition .

It has never been disclosed who the sellers were. But what is clear is that  they exited at RM3.24 while Renong’s shares plunged to about RM1.50 in a span of days, and UEM’s RM2.3 billion investment was worth slightly over a billion over the next few weeks.

Another question that begged asking was whether UEM’s board had approved the acquisition of the 32.6% in Renong? Shortly after the acquisition, two independent directors of UEM, Ernest Zulliger (left) and Thomas Lee resigned.

This resulted in many speculating that the owners of the 32.6% block got out, selling their shares to UEM, knowing that there was going to be a correction in the market, and leaving UEM to carry the baby.

Halim meanwhile had always maintained that the acquisition by UEM of Renong was a good one as Renong’s net asset value per share was indeed above RM6.10.

In his statement of claim, Halim has it that he was contemplating a general offer for UEM  and had made an offer to buy back the 32.6% via a Put Option at RM3.1 billion.

Those who do not see eye to eye with Halim have it that the Securities Commission which reported to Anwar coerced him into making the offer.

Halim in his statement of claim meanwhile said that he voluntarily made the Put Option, and negotiated for it to be in three staggered payments of RM100 million each in 2001 and the remainder to be paid with interest in May 2002.

Nevertheless his plans fell through.In Halim’s statement of claim he said that he was summoned to the then premier Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s office in Putrajaya, in July 2001 and told to drop his Put Option and shelve his plans of a general offer, and negotiate with Nor Mohamed Yakcop, Mahathir’s hatchet man at that time.

Whether Halim could raise funding for the Put Option or the general offer was a point often debated about, with those close to him maintaining that he had the backing of financial institutions from Singapore while others said funding was close to impossible.

According to his statement of claim, Halim had sought RM1.3 billion in cash, equivalents and land. He also wanted his remaining 16% in Renong to be bought back at RM1.25 per share or RM465 million and requested for the transfer of waste management company Kualiti Alam Sdn Bhd free from encumbrances, as a settlement for him having rescued Fleet Group, along with the sale of Pharmaniaga Bhd to one of Renong’s officials nominated by Halim as well as for him to be released from the Put Option.

Khazanah’s general offer was completed on Oct 8, 2001, but Hamil said Khaznah never fulfilled its part of the bargain in compensating Halim, as the Government was of the opinion that the assets were never Halim’s but Umno’s, as advised by Nor Mohamed.

The feud with Nor Mohamed

The long-standing feud between Halim and Nor Mohamed was not exactly a well-kept secret, with Halim often bitter at having lost his empire.

Adding fuel to the fire, Nor Mohamed in his book, “Notes to the Prime Minister”, touched on the Renong-UEM saga, referring to it as the “bailing out of increasingly unpopular corporate figures.”

Halim had been adamant and had told many in his private circles that the Government’s takeover was in no way a bailout.

Nor Mohamed had also referred to the Renong-UEM group’s debts as affecting the entire stock market, and the Government’s takeover of the two as “a way to resolve, once and for all, the debt issues of the group”

However some say that Halim could have restructured UEM-Renong himself.The key to resuscitating the UEM-Renong group lay in PLUS Expressways Bhd’s floatation exercise which was in July 2002, a mere eight to nine months from the takeover of UEM by Khazanah’s Syarikat Danasaham Sdn Bhd at RM4.50 per share or RM3.7 billion.

The listing of PLUS raised RM2.5 bilion for Khazanah, and with asset sales such as Crest Petroleum, a reduction of stakes in Time dotcom and Time Engineering, Renong’s debt was slashed to RM15 billion from RM30 billion previously.

“Halim had his own plans for restructuring the group. He didn’t need the intervention (by Khazanah),” a source familiar with Halim said. Among others Halim had sought to sell Time Engineering and its fibre optic business to Singapore Telecom (SingTel). But Mahathir scuttled the deal saying, SingTel would “sing and tell.”

Whether Halim could have concluded the restructuring successfully is arguable.Those close to Halim also say that he felt the Government had acted unfairly against him, and the takeover of his vehicles was a ploy to take away his assets, which was planned earlier.

In Nor Mohamed’s book, “Notes to the Prime Minister”, he talks about a meeting with Azman Yahya at Eastin Hotel’s coffee house in Petaling Jaya on June 1, 2001, where the two discussed the takeover of UEM-Renong, after which he brought the issue up with the Mahathir.

In his statement of claim, Halim states that he met Mahathir in July of 2001, and was told to talk to Nor Mohamed, in a meeting which happened on July 12.

What is clear is that Halim has sought legal redress, and is seeking in excess of RM2 billion in return for him giving up his empire, for assets which Halim says the Government via Nor Mohamed had agreed to transfer to him, damages for the breach of the agreement to purchase his 16% in Renong for RM465 million or RM1.25 per share as well as damages for fraudulent misrepresentation, interest and cost, among others.

Interestingly enough, in his statement of claim, Halim said that a witness to all his dealings with Nor Mohamed is Rashid Manaf, a lawyer formerly with Rashid & Lee. Rashid is well known as being the chairman of property developer SP Setia Bhd for about 15 years.

Halim has named Nor Mohamed the first defendant, the Government second defendant and Khazanah third. Certain quarters say that Halim filed the suit on April 17, three days before nomination day for the 13th General Election, which was just concluded, to deter Nor Mohamed from contesting, and preventing him from remaining a Minister.Ironically Nor Mohamed was appointed Deputy Chairman of Khazanah after stepping down from his position as Minister in the Prime Minister’s Department.

Khazanah has come out to say that it “has a strong defence”, against Halim’s allegations, but whether Halim succeeds or not (some fear his action may be time barred), he has certainly caused quite a stir among corporate circles.

Tengku Adnan’s credibility and a refuge Raja Nong Chik tarnished  UMNO.

What’s with the body politic? If you had any doubts about it being sick, there’s enough proof thrown up every day. The fever has been unusually virulent ever since vilified as a member of the infamous Fourth Floor , Khairy now enjoys good ties with the First Lady, Datin Seri Rosmah Mansor, a seismic change from sometime ago.

Since his political career was charted by UMNO, Najib has never had to learn the tricks of the trade. He is actually very naïve in politics, unable to form opinions or make decisions independently and by himself. In his personal life, he needs his wife Rosmah Mansor to make all the decisions for him. Whilst in his political life, he depends on advisers. So far both – Rosmah as well as the advisers – have proven to be liabilities

More and more calls are being made to keep the two top positions uncontested. In Umno, however, the real politics is happening behind the scenes. The grassroots are mobilising for the first stage of the party electoral process – the divisional polls.

Despite the public rhetoric, current conditions point to a competitive contest, in which if conditions do not radically change, Najib will likely face a credible and substantive challenge to his position..All eyes are on the contest for the top leadership position, especially given that Prime Minister Najib Abdul Razak performed poorer electorally compared to his predecessor and did not fully deliver on his promise of winning back Selangor and a two-thirds majority in Parliament.

There is a story that has long circulated in the Umno rumor mills that former premier Mahathir Mohamad had demanded that Najib divorce Rosmah or he wouldn’t support Najib’s bid to become prime minister. However, it seems that Najib was even more afraid of Rosmah than of Mahathir! how did the change from outcast to insider happen? Government officials say that Najib’s camp were initially wary of Khairy’s ambitious streak and political allegiance. The PM’s advisors also were mindful of Mahathir’s antipathy towards Khairy and Abdullah, with the former PM believing that his legacy was damaged by the Pak Lah-Khairy combo.

But Khairy hunkered down and just concentrated on political programmes, stayed below the radar and made it clear that his loyalty was to Najib. His upward fortunes have also been helped by the fact that he was one of a few BN politicians who emerged from the polls with a commanding majority and with a rare commodity in Umno these days: the ability to speak and write proficiently in English.

Be that as it may, when it comes to advisers – there is less excuse for Najib to be so weak and dilly dally over a decision that he should have made long ago and save himself the kind of flak he has been receiving these days. Najib should have sacked his strategists long ago instead of only doing so after Mahathir and former finance minister Daim Zainuddin publicly queried him on this – who are these people who are giving you such bad political advice?

Tengku adnan must be charged immediately,he RCI’s findings were so strong to  charge him why is the AG’s office folding their arms until now? Najib’s cabinet as foul-smelling, rats-infested kitchen cabinet. He is a rat and his reputation stinks. It goes without saying that he has to choose rats like Adnan to keep him company, as no clean creatures would want to be associated with him. Najib need this type of people in his cabinet. Otherwise he will be powerless in the power brokering Umno. You help me I help you. You have skeletons, I have shit. We are in cabinet. Sama-sama makan. No one rocks the boat or all will sink. This is the band of 40 thieves we are witnessing real life. And they are ruling us.

The two closest meanings of graft are bribery and robbery. I fail to see how Nurul’s alleged action could be construed as graft, two closest meanings of graft are bribery and jobbery, and not “The two closest meanings of graft are bribery and robbery”. There is such a word as “jobbery”. Its synonyms are “bribery”, “extortion” and “graft”. Raja Nong Chik, the Rakyat have rejected you. Just accept it gracefully and try again the next GE…..so just learn to be a good looser!Nong Chik, please remove your banner that is still hanging at a lamp post in front of AlRajhi bank at jalan telawi bangsar. Even DBKL is scared to remove it, I reckon or is it to remind us what a sore looser you are. Only in Malaysia the ones who misuse power scots free.

Raja Nong Chik has lost in spite of alleged cheating, the misuse of DBKL resources for his campaign and the huge amount of money spent.’In the Lembah Pantai Parliamentary seat, the whole BN machinery including the kitchen sink were thrown in to wrest the seat from incumbent MP Nurul Izzah Anwar .No integrity at all. How to carry on as a minister?If he is an ordinary manager, executive , office boy , or cleaner in the corporate world , he would be removed from his duties . This surely amounts to corruption . Even after GE 13 Najib can never right the wrong.

This did not work as the massive turnout negated any attempts to steal the seat. In desperation two ballot boxes, from whence they came nobody seems to know, were ferried to the counting centre in a taxi and Proton Waja allegedly to swing the tide against Nurul.

It was obvious to everyone present, including the returning officer – an underhanded last ditch effort to save the day for challenger Raja Nong Chik with what must have been postal votes.

Just as well this attempt was thwarted by the returning officer, who had no choice but to follow the rules. Nurul won fair and square, so what’s the problem?Election petitioner Mohamad Sazali Kamilan is talking nonsense. Why were the ballot boxes being carried in the boots of a taxi and a Proton Waja?

The EC operating procedure is very clear – that the ballot boxes should be placed in the back seat, not the booth.

Why was one of the boxes marked 120, which is the Bukit Bintang constituency? Why were the boxes being ferried, late in the night, when the main counting was over?

I have a hunch that the two vehicles were carrying ballot boxes containing ‘postal votes’ from another constituency. Can Mohd Sazali explain the origins of these two mystery ballot boxes? Election petitions are a healthy part of the system. Unfortunately there will be as many nonsensical petitions as there will be valid ones and all must be considered.

The reality is that only a small proportion of the valid petitions will have sufficient basis to impact on the election results. This one is nothing more than a filler and white noise.

So this is the strategy of the BN government to counter the election petitions by the opposition – lodge counter petitions which are frivolous.

This is like a filibuster where a perfectly valid submissions are blocked by frivolous counter submissions. If we go by their logic, then BN politicians are much more guilty of defamation and in many documented cases, race-baiting, hate mongering etc.

But the objectives of these filibustering petitions are not the truth but to so clutter up the public domain and the courts that the whole point of unfair and one-sided electoral practice is smothered and hopefully forgotten as the public tires of incessant snipping.

To effectively counter such filibuster (only in the court of public opinion, forget about the courts) is to present each petition and argument in well-reasoned explanation and well-researched and documented facts.

The shallow nature of such filibustering counter-petition will defeat itself in the public domain.

Five factors

There are five underlying factors that point to a challenge: First, the modus operandi in UMNO is money politics. This was a legacy of the Mahathir years and has become deeply entrenched, feeding into the concerns over corruption and governance. For many of the delegates, they join the party for the perks and invest in positions for potential financial gains.

Elections are an integral part of the financial rewards in the system as they involve the distribution of incentives. The logic is simple – the more the competition within the party, the more the incentives. Given the modus operandi in UMNO, there are vested interests in fueling contests.

The higher the level of competition, the greater the promise of rewards. This election involves more people, so competition is costly, involving mass outlays of funds to more people than ever before. Part of the call for the return to the old 2,000-delegate system is driven by this economic ‘money politics’ reality.

There is a tension here between those who would like to minimise costs, with those who would like to receive dividends. The numbers are on the receiving ends, thus the systemic pressure for greater competition.

Second, UMNO as a party is deeply factionalised. This is not unique. In fact for dominant one-party system this is the norm, as seen in Taiwan, Japan and Mexico. All political parties have some degree of internal divisions. These divisions, however, feed into competition as the leadership has to accommodate the various warlords.

In some cases, such as recently in Negeri Sembilan, the leadership has had to take sides on who to elevate to positions in the state government. Warlordism fuels competition by bringing national politics to the state level and vice-versa. Currently, the intensity of conflict at the state level and underlying resentment against UMNO’s current leadership for perceived favouritism contributes to pressure for more leadership competition.

Malay chauvinism under challenge

Third, UMNO as a party is being pressured to reform its identity after GE13. To be more precise, its Malay chauvinism is being challenged. The challenge is taking the form of calls to move the party into a more multi-ethnic entity, and be more inclusive of non-Malays. This is in response to the effective death of the BN as a multi-ethnic power-sharing coalition in GE13.

This measure initially mooted by Najib has yielded a strong reaction from the rank and file, who have come out of a polls where ethnic Malay chauvinism was stoked and ignited to bring the party faithful together against the opposition. The disconnect between the multi-ethnic initiative promoted by a national leader seeking national representation and the party grassroots embedded in their ethnic nationalist framework is real, and has caused disgruntlement among some and anger among others.

The push to maintain the openness in the party electoral system taps into this, as more numbers can openly display their rejection of transforming the party outside of Dr Mahathir Mohamad’s Malay chauvinist mode.

Fourth, there is the reality of generational pressures within the party. Najib was not successful in having many of ‘his men’ elected in GE13, as he hoped to garner a new cadre of leaders to support his push to consolidate his position within the party. After all, he has yet to be elected to the presidency.

The push for younger, new faces remains, but the bottleneck in the leadership is substantive. The impact is that younger leaders will by nature ally with different actors with the hope of moving up the ranks in a system that has been slow to engage in generational transformation.

Finally, amidst the structural concerns is the long-standing push for statesmanship. Many in UMNO hark back to the good old days when UMNO leaders were respected across the Malaysian society, and seen as national leaders to be proud of.

There is division within UMNO, and nationally, regarding Najib’s leadership as well as his statesmanship.

He has not taken a prominent role post-GE13, and this raises questions. Najib, like his predecessor Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, faces the difficulty of meeting conflicting demands and higher expectations. This push for ‘statesmanship’ leadership will be a driver for some of the potential contenders for power.

Najib seeks new allies

These party dynamics – money politics, warlord factionalism, party identity, generational pressures and statesmanship – all contribute to increased possibilities of a leadership challenge and greater party contention. At issue will be the new electoral system, the timing of the polls (with early polls apparently favoured by Najib) and the composition of the challenge itself.

The question being asked is whether Deputy Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin, who is 66 last month, will feel this is his last chance to take a shot at the top spot or someone else steps up to the challenge. Also openly being discussed is Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah, 76, who has shown a willingness to contest for UMNO President in the past. It is unlikely, given the systemic issues at play, that no one will step forward.

Despite the questions around GE13 and the continued concerns with electoral irregularities, UMNO feels victorious and is being portrayed as the ‘winner,’ contributing to more risk-taking and competition.

We have seen after the May 5 general election, new alliances are being forged – at least temporarily – ahead of the UMNO polls. Najib has brought many of the Abdullah allies into the cabinet and he has reached out to Sabah.

He has not significantly rocked the warlord interests in most of the states as he sought more allies. His biggest ‘new’ ally appears to be Mahathir who said there was ‘no alternative’ to Najib in a speech in Japan. But history has shown that Mahathir’s fidelity as an ally is uncertain at best.

Najib has simultaneously thrown down the gauntlet by not giving Muhyiddin a senior cabinet position and holding his people at bay by not including them in the cabinet. The contest effectively began when the GE13 results came in, continued with the cabinet selection and is ongoing. The strategy of the marginalisation of Muhyiddin has begun.

In the weeks ahead, the backroom politics will only intensify. It is much too early to write off a challenge. In fact, current conditions suggest the opposite – a growing competition within UMNO.

Najib will rely on the incumbency advantage, something which he had used effectively in GE13. But despite the power of incumbency, Najib’s position should not yet be seen as secure, as he has to pass the test of his party in what may very well be the fiercest contests for the party leadership yet.Federal Territories Minister Tengku Adnan, who is also the Umno secretary-general, and mother of all snake But admit it: whatever  the strategic thinking for Tengku Adnan. Tengku Adnan has the future mapped out. Operating procedure for Big Boss: sound resigned if you have to, but don’t resign. Deflect and wait. Do a costume change, don’t alter the script.all … Read more