COMMENT As the prospects of victory at the polls for Pakatan Rakyat brighten - despite what the Intelligence Unit of The Economist says - stories spread which hold that elements within PAS are developing cold feet at the notion of Anwar Ibrahim as Malaysia's seventh prime minister.

The Economist, these days close to being what Time magazine was at one time - an authoritative oracle on the world's current affairs - has pronounced BN as the likely winner of the 13th general election but the machinations of some elements within PAS suggest serious doubts about that credibility of that prediction - hence their jitters about Anwar as prospective PM and their apparent surreptitious manoeuvres against its possibility.

These elements reputedly want him replaced by someone else, probably by their party's president Abdul Hadi Awang, or, as some reports have it, even by Umno MP for Gua Musang, Tengku Razaleigh Hamzah...