There will be a bilateral meeting on Oct 7 between Pakatan Rakyat component parties PAS and DAP in order to sort out their differences over various issues in Selangor.

pas pc 021009 mustafa ali PAS secretary-general Mustafa Ali said the meeting may discuss issues plaguing the Select Committee of Competency, Accountability and Transparency (Selcat).

"The meeting will be between each party's state top leadership in order to thrash out misunderstandings between us," he told a press conference at the PAS headquarters in Kuala Lumpur today.

He also assured that the matter has died down and "the question of the Islamic party leaving Pakatan does not arise."

In a related development, Mustafa also said that he has not received any official letter calling for disciplinary action to be taken against Shah Alam MP Khalid Samad for allegedly asking his fellow party colleague Hasan Ali to resign.

"I have not received any letter. Also, disciplinary action can only be taken if the disciplinary committee holds a meeting to discuss it.

"But as of now, we have not heard anything about action being taken against either Khalid or Hasan," he said.

Both Khalid and Hasan have been crossing swords with each other since the latter, who is also a PAS commissioner criticised Selcat for “humiliating civil officers”.

Stop public statements

This had riled many Pakatan leaders, including Speaker Teng Chang Khim and Khalid, who said Hasan’s stance is not consistent with the opposition coalition’s principles.

khalid samad 160609 02 Khalid ( right ) was then reported to have had disciplinary proceedings being contemplated against him for allegedly telling Hasan to resign over his remarks. (Khalid has since denied the allegation.)

In order to avoid party leaders from criticising one another through the media, Mustafa urged all individuals to stop issuing public statements from now on.

"We already have a mechanism that allows us to settle any issue behind closed-doors," he said, adding that it is normal for party leaders to have different views.

"But this does not show that there is a rift in the party," he said, adding that resorting to the media to criticise other party leaders will only worsen the situation.

"It is okay to have different views, but when we voice our different views to the media, everything will go out of the window," he added.

Asked whether a gag order will work among the politicians, Mustafa only hopes that they will resort to it after a discussion at the top leadership level.

"But I cannot instruct any of them to stop issuing any public statements, but PAS as a whole has the ability to instruct their members to do so," he said.