A wake-up call for Pas

The proposal for “unity talks” between Umno and Pas may have led to the latter’s poorer showing in the in Manek Urai by-election, suggests Anil Netto.

Time to abolish the ISA for good

Not one person should be held in detention without trial as it violates basic human rights, asserts Norlaila Othman, whose husband has been detained without trial for seven years.

Aliran Monthly 25: 5 editor’s note

In our cover story, Maznah Mohamad analyses the recent proposal for Umno-Pas unity talks. A Pas-Umno ‘marriage’, she says, would have been nothing more than a marriage of convenience with disturbing consequences. Such talk and the divisions it has created in Pas may have contributed to the party’s poorer showing in the recent Manek Urai [...]

Kg Buah Pala: Can you sell something that you don’t own?

How could the Penang state government under the BN sell the Kampong Buah Pala land when “the available evidence seemed to show that the land is still vested in the Federal Lands Commissioner”, wonders a bewildered P Ramakrishnan.

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