For the first time in two decades, moderates outnumber clerics on a powerful committee in the main Islamic opposition party, a move analysts say will help it win non-Muslim votes.

Delegates from PAS muktamar on Saturday elected 11 reformers and seven conservatives to the party's 18-seat decision-making central committee, the latest part of a rebranding that began in 2005 in a bid to woo voters and shed its hardline image.