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...The country’s authorities in September dropped corruption charges against Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the deputy prime minister and leader of a key partner in the ruling coalition, which raised questions over Anwar...
...Pakistan’s acting prime minister, Anwar ul-Haq, also cut short a visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, this week....
...Events: Philippine president Ferdinand Marcos Jr begins a three-day state visit to Malaysia, where he will meet King Al-Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah and Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim....
...Anwar’s naming of the BN leader Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, who faces graft charges, as a deputy prime minister will not go down well with his voters....
...King Sultan Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah appointed Anwar after meeting candidates for prime minister and newly elected members of parliament this week....
...“Umno party president Ahmad Zahid Hamidi and his faction — among the key instigators of political upheaval in recent years — will now be weakened after their spectacular own goal of pushing for snap polls...
...Najib’s appeal is due to be heard in August, while Ahmad Zahid Hamidi, the party’s president, is on trial for alleged corruption....
...His lawyer Firoz Hussein Ahmad Jamaluddin expressed disappointment with the ruling....
...Ismail and Anwar Ibrahim, an opposition leader and ex-deputy prime minister who was formerly jailed, were the leading candidates....
...He expressed disappointment with Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, his immediate successor, who took over in 2003, as well as Mr Najib, both of whom rose under Mr Mahathir’s guidance....
...Indeed, he has promised eventually to hand over power to his estranged deputy from the 1990s, Anwar Ibrahim, who languished in prison for years following a controversial conviction on sodomy charges....
...Members linked to Anwar Ibrahim, the imprisoned former deputy prime minister, accepted their erstwhile enemy Mr Mahathir as PH chairman in July, hoping to attract more Malay voters....
...He pulled the same stunt in 2008 to protest against former prime minister Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, eventually forcing his successor’s resignation....
.../ From Ahmad Rasidi Hazizi...
...On Saturday his Keadilan (justice) party, one of three that make up the opposition, warned the government not to implicate the opposition in suggestions in some foreign media that Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the...
...Zaharie Ahmad Shah, captain of flight MH370, has come under intense scrutiny after it emerged this weekend that last year he joined the party of Malaysia’s firebrand opposition leader, Anwar Ibrahim....
...“I wouldn’t be surprised if we were entering a negative growth period,” says Anwar ul-Haq Ahady, a senior member of Mr Ghani’s team and a former commerce minister....
...March 19 • Malaysian investigators say they are trying to recover data deleted from a flight simulator at Zaharie Ahmad Shah’s home....
...Police have searched the home of Zaharie Ahmad Shah, the captain of the flight....
...However, Wan Ahmad Wan Omar, deputy chairman of the Malaysian Election Commission, insisted that the ink could not be washed off....
...The election, which could be called by September, will be a tough fight with an opposition re-energised since the acquittal of its leader, Anwar Ibrahim, on sodomy charges....
...Ali Ahmad Jalali, a former foreign minister, and Anwar al-Haq Ahady, a former finance minister, also backed out....
...He spent six years in solitary confinement before being released, in part through the wisdom of Mahathir’s successor as prime minister, Abdullah Ahmad Badawi....
...Anwar Sadat, general manager of Ayna TV, said President Hamid Karzai’s government was trying to muzzle television stations’ news divisions in the run-up to next year’s presidential elections....
...“Liaqot Baloch [the MMA’s parliamentary leader] and Qazi Hussain Ahmad [its president] are seen as sell-outs by the Lal Masjid crowd,” says Joshua T....
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