Penang PAS is reporting members in the state who are joining splinter group Gerakan Harapan Baru (GHB) to the party's central committee for disciplinary action to be taken.

State PAS commissioner Fauzi Mohd Yusof said the report was necessary as the individuals involved were still PAS members.

The move comes after GHB launched its chapter in Penang last week, with Parit Buntar MP Mujahid Yusof Rawa ( photo ) as head of the state pro-tem committee.

"We are not making any decision (at the state level) but have collected and sent reports on GHB activities to the party's disciplinary board as those joining it are still PAS members," he told reporters when met at the High Court in George Town today.

Nevertheless, Fauzi said, the party does not feel threatened despite the formation of the splinter group that is led by 18 former PAS leaders, referred to as the progressives, who were defeated at the party's muktamar in early June.

"We are fighting the cause for Allah, not for men, so we don't feel threatened," said Fauzi.

He then went on to remind the progressive leaders that they only secured 20 percent of the votes at the party's leadership elections at its 61st muktamar.

Fauzi noted that there are about 1.5 million PAS members nationwide, with 30,000 of them in Penang.

"We continue to advise them (the defeated ones). We did not chase them away or ask them to leave; we persuade them as others have been defeated before," he said.

Fauzi was in court today to support former Penang municipal councillor Iszuree Ibrahim ( photo ), who is seeking a judicial review on his sacking as a councillor by the state executive council. The case will be heard on Sept 9.

Former PAS deputy chief Mohamed Sabu, who heads GHB's pro-tem committee, kicked off the group's nationwide tour in Perlis last Sunday.

GHB plans to register a political party and to eventually join forces with DAP and PKR in the coming general election, who should be called before the end of 2018.

This follows the decision of the PAS delegates at the muktamar to cut ties with DAP for severing links with their president, Abdul Hadi Awang, for tabling a Private Member’s Bill in Parliament to enable hudud's implementation.

Since then, DAP secretary-general Lim Guan Eng has declared Pakatan Rakyat in its present form to be dead.