comment MCA Wanita chief Chew Mei Fun has been quoted as saying that PAS is bent on turning Malaysia into a theocratic state. She likened PAS coming to power as a first step towards the ‘Talibanisation of Malaysia’.

This was in reference to her unhappiness that some PAS members felt that female journalists covering the recently concluded PAS muktamar (annual assembly) were not properly ‘covered up’.