Anwar di Aljazeera

Rancangan khas di Aljazeera: Kembalinya Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim ke Parlimen selepas 10 tahun pada pukul 8.30 malam ini.
Ulangan: Jumaat(3.30 pagi), Sabtu (10 mlm), Ahad(1.30 petang), Isnin(9.30 pagi), Selasa (6.30 petang), Rabu (3.30 petang) dan Khamis (2 petang)

Sabah MPs reject loyalty pledge

(The Star) – Many of the 24 Sabah Barisan Nasional MPs are rejecting a move to get them to sign a loyalty pledge to Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
State Barisan Backbenchers Club chairman Datuk Anifah Aman said the move proposed by Culture, Arts and Heritage Minister Datuk Shafie Apdal was an insult to the Sabah MPs. He added that the pledge should instead be signed by all Barisan MPs nationwide.
He said various Sabah MPs including himself had repeatedly voiced their loyalty to the Barisan leadership and pledged that they had no intention of crossing over to join the opposition.
“We did this during the Permatang Pauh campaign, on television and again in Kota Kinabalu. Is the frequency of denial equivalent to our loyalty?” said Anifah, the Kimanis MP and Kimanis Umno chief.
He said many Sabah Barisan backbenchers had called him asking about the pledge and some had said they felt that they were being treated like “cattle.”
Anifah questioned Shafie’s real intentions for proposing the loyalty pledge and wondered whether it was aimed at scoring “political points” in his bid for the Umno vice-president’s post in the party polls.
On Thursday, Shafie had said that Sabah and Sarawak MPs would be submitting a pledge declaring their loyalty to the Prime Minister by Friday or Saturday. He had said the MPs from both states would never quit the coalition despite the various rumours about them.
Kalabakan MP Datuk Abdul Ghapur Salleh said the loyalty pledge seemed to infer that Sabah MPs could not be trusted.
Saying he would not be signing any such pledge, Ghapur, the Kalabakan Umno chief, said the Sabah MPs had been vocal about issues affecting the state as they felt that these problems had to be resolved.
“But this should never be misconstrued as us being disloyal to the leadership,” he added.
Karambunai MP Datuk Eric Majimbun, the Sabah Progressive Party (SAPP) deputy president, said neither he nor fellow SAPP MP Datuk Dr Chua Soon Bui of Tawau would be signing such a pledge.
“What is the point of such a pledge? This so-called pledge doesn’t make sense,” he said.

Perhimpunan Keluarga Merdeka Sabtu Ini

KUALA LUMPUR 29 OGOS (SK) – Sempena bulan kemerdekaan, satu himpunan yang bertemakan Himpunan Keluarga Merdeka 2008 akan dianjurkan di 29 Ogos ini.

Bertempat di Padang Kelab Sultan Sulaiman, Kampung Baru, majlis yang dianjurkan oleh Wanita KeADILan turut meraikan kemenangan rakyat selepas kejayaan Anwar Ibrahim dilantik kembali sebagai Ahli Parlimen Permatang Pauh.

Himpunan itu juga akan menyaksikan pengiktirafan keatas jasa-jasa Presiden KeADILan, Dr Wan Azizah Wan Ismail dengan penganugerahan Tokoh Serikandi Rakyat di atas sumbangan beliau kepada perjuangan reformasi dan rakyat.

Selain Anwar dan Dr Wan Azizah, Ketua Wanita KeADILan yang juga Ahli Parlimen Ampang, Saifuddin Nasution Ismail dan Dr Tan Yee Kew akan turut hadir di dalam majlis ini.

Semua rakyat dijemput hadir ke himpunan ini, majlis akan bermula pada jam 3 petang.

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Cross-over in Kedah?

(The Star) ALOR STAR: Pakatan Rakyat’s “Permatang Pauh to Putrajaya” campaign slogan for the Permatang Pauh by-election has triggered a possible crossover in Kedah, said Kedah Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Azizan Abdul Razak.

He said several Barisan Nasional assemblymen had “hinted” through SMSes that they may be interested in joining Pakatan Rakyat.

“From the way the messages were written, I can read what is on their minds,” he said, adding that some of the messages were sent directly by the assemblymen and others via third parties.

Azizan acknowledged that he was aware of Barisan’s attempts to “snatch” some of the Pakatan Rakyat assemblymen.

For Barisan to regain control of the state, at least five assemblymen need to cross over. Currently, Barisan holds 14 of the 36 state seats.

Selangor Mentri Besar Tan Sri Khalid Ibrahim said Datuk Seri Anwar Ibrahim’s victory in the by-election showed that people wanted change irrespective of race, colour or religion.

“We are moving on a new mindset where the people want a competent, accountable and transparent administration,” he said.

PAS spiritual adviser Datuk Nik Abdul Aziz Nik Mat predicted the end of Umno and the rise of Islam based on the result of the by-election.

“It is the end of Umno’s era of using nationalism as its struggle and development as a means to cheat people,” he said.

Penang Deputy Chief Minister I Mohammad Fairus Khairuddin said the alleged graft cases involving two Perak executive council (exco) members had worked against Barisan.

“It was a backlash for the Barisan. And so was the swearing done by Saiful (Bukhari Azlan).

“In the end, they all helped to propagate a wind of change that blew in the direction of (Datuk Seri) Anwar Ibrahim, especially in terms of the Malay support,” he told reporters after making a courtesy call on Perak Mentri Besar Datuk Seri Mohammad Nizar Jamaluddin.